Sustainability

Your ESG strategy matters more to your customers and investors than you might think.

Standards, customer expectations, investor concerns – there’s a lot to consider as you develop an ESG strategy. Implementing sustainable environmental, social and governance (ESG) strategies, policies, and practices is not only a vital way to care for our people and planet, but is also an increasingly important factor in how your customers and investors are making their decisions. From products to services, people want to do business with companies that are incorporating responsible environmental practices, social strategies, and governance policies and hold themselves accountable. Through the Crowe ESG Centre of Excellence (COE), we are a trusted adviser to help our clients see across the entire regulatory and societal landscape to help implement meaningful, impactful and innovative sustainability programs to shape a better tomorrow.

Our solutions to get you started.

Climate Risk Assessment

Our team can help you prepare for climate-related financial disclosures based on TCFD requirements that will support informed decision-making and capital allocation by investors, lenders, and insurance underwriters.

Establish governance, strategy, risk management, metrics and targets in line with TCFD
Comply with SGX regulatory requirements on TCFD

ESG Reporting

Our team can help you develop processes required for producing a Sustainability Report for the first time, and drafting and writing a Sustainability Report, in collaboration with the company’s team, in accordance with GRI Standards, and industry best practices.

Sustainability reporting based on GRI standards to fulfil regulatory (i.e. SGX, HKEX, MAS) or industry requirements
Set ESG targets and measure performance based on UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

ESG Strategy Roadmap

A customised road map can help you assess your current ESG strategy, identify gaps, and plan for your future. Once you’ve identified your goals and priorities, we’ll help you move from the “what” to the “how” and get you connected to our specialised teams.

Customised road map to implement your ESG strategy
Formalise your approach to assess materiality and capture the right stakeholder perspectives
Inventory of current ESG initiatives
Perform gap analysis on your ESG process

Stakeholder Engagement and Materiality Analysis

Our team can also help you engage with stakeholders and perform a materiality analysis to identify the issues that matter most to your stakeholders, including investors, customers, employees, and others.

Conduct stakeholder engagement to understand their ESG concerns
Conduct materiality or risk assessments on ESG reporting
Recommend reporting metrics

Greenhouse Gas Emissions Accounting

Whether you’re preparing for potential TCFD requirements, an M&A deal, or looking to step up your reporting, our team can help you evaluate and measure your GHG emissions.

Formalise your approach to identify and measure GHG emissions (Scope 1, 2 and 3)
Measure and compute GHG emissions (Scope 1, 2 and 3)

Internal Audit

With effect from 1 January 2022, issuers on the SGX are required to subject sustainability reporting processes to internal review. Our team can assist you to bring a systematic, disciplined approach to evaluate and improve the effectiveness of risk management, control, and governance processes around sustainability reporting.