Sustainability
Helping you navigate rapidly changing sustainability expectations and set your own sustainability ambitions.
Crowe named InsuranceERM’s Climate and Sustainability Consultancy of the Year
We are proud to announce that for the second time, we have been recognised at the prestigious Insurance ERM Global Climate Risk and Sustainability Awards 2025.
Implementing a sustainability programme is at its heart a complex change management exercise.
To help your organisation evolve its approach over time, our team will work with you so you understand the potential and risks associated with climate change and sustainability challenges.
We combine this experience and expertise to help you put in place proportionate solutions that work for the maturity of your organisation, using our expertise in the latest sustainability and climate risk practices and regulations.
In order to provide you with a strong platform for you to build on for the future, we work with you to integrate solutions into the heart of your organisation.
We support our clients in setting their own agenda to address rapidly changing sustainability and climate-related stakeholder and reporting requirements.
Purpose and strategic alignment
Understanding how sustainability fits with your corporate strategy and purpose is key to correctly positioning any programme. It is important to understand key stakeholders’ priorities and structure change initiatives to deliver consistently against these.
Purpose and strategic alignment
Results and outcomes
All our projects will be tailored to meet your requirements while always focusing on the desired outcomes. This will leave you with a robust and repeatable processes that is an integral part of a company business strategy.
Results and outcomes
Partnering in execution
Drawing on our expertise and optimal methodologies, we collaborate with you to co-design solutions customised to the needs of your organisation.
Partnering in execution
Embedding change into the future
Together with your team, we'll ensure we build robust solutions for the future. In order to foster continuous improvement at the pace you need to deliver, we will adapt our approaches to suit your culture, capability and maturity.
Embedding change into the future
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How we can help you
Setting, reviewing or communicating the organisation’s sustainability strategy and ambition.
Setting direction: developing policy and strategy positions related to an organisation’s sustainability strategy.
Being clear on why: enhancing clarity of alignment to business strategy, purpose and values, to help articulate a clear and compelling sustainability narrative for the organisation.
Being clear on what matters: practical implementation of materiality and risk assessments. Identifying business opportunities and understanding how to secure them.
Being clear on how: translating ambition and risk appetite into concrete plans, supported by appropriate functional operating mode.
| What we do: Sustainability strategy development | Maturity assessment | Materiality assessment | Sustainability organisation design | Ambition and risk appetite setting. Benefits: Being able to articulate the organisation’s sustainability strategy builds commitment to delivery, and enables the delivery of tangible plans and deployment of organisational resources to deliver on these ambitions. |
Sustainability programmes are about winning hearts and minds and delivering agreed plans.
Education: often change is enabled by education and knowledge transfer, providing the ability to embed change.
Enabling change management: recognising that sustainability is a transformational change means that we help apply those disciplines to build motivation to change and aid successful embedding.
Embedding into core processes: integrating sustainability means making changes across core business processes including procurement, supply chain and investment.
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What we do: Board and management training | Programme management support | Responsible procurement implementation | Supply chain risk and sustainability evaluation | Responsible investment implementation | Responsible underwriting integration. Benefits: Being able to implement sustainability in a manner that aligns with corporate culture will ensure that management buy-in and actively support robust adoption. |
Stakeholder, regulatory and reporting requirements are increasingly complex. We provide clear route maps and identify efficient ways of delivering against expectations.
Regulatory change: with fast moving regulations, it is important to look ahead and understand the changing landscape holistically.
Regulatory gap analysis: planning starts with understanding requirements and breaking them down into actionable plans.
Establishing carbon accounting: support organisations in understanding their overall greenhouse gas emissions, deploying data analytical skills to mine supply chain and financed emission information.
Transition to Net Zero: making a commitment to carbon reduction requires structured analysis, clear plans and a pragmatic approach.
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What we do: Regulatory change and route maps | Regulatory and reporting standards gap analysis and implementation planning | Integrating sustainability disclosures into financial reporting cycles | Insurance Associated Emission (IAE) evaluation | Science Based Target initiatives (SBTi) implementation support | Transition plan development. Benefits: Being able to navigate complex and changing regulatory requirements in a practical way allows organisations to organise themselves efficiently and turn sustainability into a competitive advantage. |
Implementation of sustainability can require specialist support, temporary additional resources, as well as independent assurance.
Transactions come in many forms. We are able to respond to a range of client requirements, including working on a co-sourced basis with sustainability teams, internal audit functions and acquisition due diligence project teams.
We tailor our delivery mechanisms to work alongside our clients in order to help them meet their objectives.
| What we do: Co-sourced sustainability resources | Emission calculation support | Disclosure preparation | Disclosure independent assurance | Sustainability Linked Loan support | Acquisition Due Diligence | Internal Audit Sustainability SME support. Benefits: Being able to move at pace and address a range of corporate and stakeholder expectations ensures sustainability issues are addressed effectively. |
Sustainability Risk Function (SRF) Network
Our Sustainability Risk Function (SRF) network brings together financial services to appointing ESG-specialists, within second line risk functions, in an open forum to discuss all environmental, social, and governance (ESG), sustainability and climate related topics.
We share an outline of more specific issues and areas for discussion prior to each event, to act as a prompt for your thinking on each topic.
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Working together we can help you successfully adapt and overcome the challenges you may face, both today and in the future.
Acting as your trusted partner, through practical and proportionate approaches, our work can help you become more sustainable, more resilient, and more adaptable to change and uncertainty.
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