Build a solid sustainability strategy with ESG Global Guidance.
Hearing the call for your company to show its sustainability? We guide you through the complexities with universal standards for your reporting.
What are sustainability, ESG, and their impact?
While the current trend is to use the terms interchangeably to describe non-financial reporting obligations, sustainability and ESG (or environmental, social and governance) issues are not the same. Sustainability is a much broader concept, about meeting the needs of the present generation without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.
An effective sustainability strategy puts into perspective your company’s impact on employees, consumers, the environment and the global community, directs on how to increase reliability, and can even improve its bottom line.
From there, reporting moves you towards sustainability, identifying gaps to ensure your efforts are protecting people and the planet. In turn, it helps to attract investors, talent and clients, and promotes a better company reputation.
Build trust, raise awareness and encourage positive social change
Protect our world while protecting your corporate reputation with a best-in-class sustainability program built on the world’s foremost legislative frameworks and voluntary instruments. Through easy-to-understand, easy-to-apply sustainability and ESG global guidance, we help you organize and optimize your initiatives to address the century’s leading business concerns.
How can we help you
Community involvement and consumer issues
Engage on a deeper level with standards for consumer and community support, such as social investment, respect for property, sustainable consumption and consumer dispute resolution.
Extended environmental protection
Step up your social contribution by addressing global environmental issues with a wider impact, such as energy, biodiversity as well as climate change mitigation and adaptation.
Diversity in the workplace
Protect minority groups and promote inclusion with proven methods for ensuring non-discrimination, equal opportunity, gender equality, minority group rights and preventing workplace harassment.
Ethical governance and anti-corruption
Ensure moral business management with essential ethical practices, including disclosure policies, responsible investment, proper wages, anti-bribery measures and responsible taxation.
Employee freedoms and advocacy
Fully support your workforce with a full understanding of principles for freedom of association, collective bargaining, grievance mechanisms and whistleblowing policies.
Human rights assessment
Understand the details of human rights due diligence, the business duty to respect human rights, business responsibility in conflict-affected and fragile environments and protect against forced and child labor.
Sustainability and ESG guidance for a better world
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Ready-to-apply requirements
Be confident in your sustainability initiatives
Build your best program on best practices derived from over 350 sources, including international conventions, guidance documents and standards.
Apply anywhere, at any point of the value chain
Make a positive impact around the world and across your entire business with requirements you can leverage in any company, in all operations globally and at every point along the value chain – including those involving partners and suppliers.
See and share the same outlook, site to site
Get your entire organization on board, keep every site on track and build internal awareness across your business through a standardized way to communicate about your sustainability initiatives, compare sites’ activities and monitor progress.
Measure efforts with meaningful metrics
Ramp up your ESG rating and gain more insight into the results of your sustainability initiatives with expert guidance on and key requirements for creating non-financial ESG reports, specialized standards and customized audits.
