ESG Strategy
A defined ESG position built from material issues, business strategy and stakeholder requirements -- with governance, priorities and a delivery plan attached.
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ESG & Sustainability
Turn ESG requirements into practical governance, reporting and operational programmes.
Context and capability
The business problem
ESG arrives as a set of external demands -- investor questionnaires, customer requirements, listing rules, procurement conditions -- and is often answered document by document. That produces reporting effort without producing management information, and leaves the organisation restating positions it has never actually decided.
What CER does
CER works from materiality outwards: what genuinely matters to this business and its stakeholders, what has to be governed, what has to be measured, and what has to be disclosed. We then build the reporting process, data definitions and internal accountability that make it repeatable.
Likely outcome
A defined ESG position, a reporting process that runs on a schedule rather than a scramble, and data that management can use rather than only publish.
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ESG & Sustainability services
Most engagements combine several of these. If you are not sure which applies, describe the requirement and we will map it.
Sustainability Reporting
Reporting built on defined data, documented process and a clear view of which framework applies -- prepared so that assurance is achievable when it becomes required.
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Materiality Assessment
A structured assessment of sustainability issues against business impact and stakeholder significance, producing a prioritised set that strategy and reporting can be built on.
Materiality Assessment: Explore this service
ESG Risk Management
Identification, assessment and integration of ESG and climate risks into enterprise risk management, with ownership, appetite and monitoring rather than a parallel register.
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ESG Data & KPIs
Metric definitions, data ownership, collection processes and controls that turn scattered ESG information into a reportable, auditable data set.
ESG Data & KPIs: Explore this service
Sustainable Procurement
Supplier requirements, assessment criteria and contract terms that make sustainability part of procurement decisions and give you the supply-chain data you are being asked for.
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The CER framework
Crystalise
Establish where the organisation actually stands: current position, obligations, exposure and the gaps between them.
- Baseline assessment
- Data and evidence review
- Stakeholder analysis
- Gap assessment
- Regulatory mapping
Economise
Decide where effort and investment should go, so the programme addresses what is material rather than everything at once.
- Materiality assessment
- Prioritisation
- Roadmap development
- Financial assessment
- Target setting
Revitalise
Put the programme into operation, measure it, and build the internal capability to keep it running.
- Implementation support
- Reporting
- Training
- Performance tracking
- Continuous improvement
Discuss your esg & sustainability requirements
Tell us what is being asked of your organisation, by whom, and when. We will tell you what it actually takes to answer it.