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Your ESG consulting partners

MACK BHATIA

Meet your ESG objectives and engage your investors with our team


In a remarkably short time span, Environmental, Social and Governance principles (ESG) have gained prominence among investors, from top performance-driven asset managers to institutional investors (including pension funds and sovereign wealth funds) and wealth managers. This is a response to pressure from their own investors and industry regulators to incorporate ESG-consciousness into investing mandates to address climate change and achieve more sustainable, long-term returns.

This primarily boils down to how companies and business incorporate ESG practices and initiatives in their business model and operations to engage investors and help them develop an environmentally friendly portfolio. This also means more access to capital for you. 



Our services and how we work with you

1. ESG in your business model 

Our global team of ESG professionals’ dives into your existing business model to identify opportunities of positive impact on the planet or the people. Our team will practice adequate due diligence to not only identify ESG opportunities but help our clients quantify potential ESG benefits and risks, incorporate ESG policies into the strategies and activities, facilitate transactions between asset buyers and sellers, and provide confidence among all parties that ESG commitments are made, and risks are managed. 

Our team may also identify new opportunities as we get deeper into your business and industry, in which case we will develop a business case / plan needed to succeed.

Who Benefits: Your executive team, c-suite and it sends a strong message to institutional investors on your commitment to meet ESG objectives.
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2. Cross Functional Collaboration  

Our professionals liaise cross functionally among your company and various divisions to connect the dots and to articulate the key roles every division can play. This is important to develop a coherent ESG narrative. The primary organization functions involved are investor relations, and marketing and communications, sustainability leadership and finance (for sustainable finance opportunities). 

Our team ensures cross functional cohesion to ensure smooth execution of ESG strategy.

Who Benefits: Internal stakeholders such as employees, sustainability leaders, operations and executive team.


3. Strategic Marketing and Corporate Communication

Our team builds a global marketing strategy in alignment with short and long-term company ESG goals. We bring in a creative team of experts with a strong ESG background to develop and execute on marketing campaigns and amplify your ESG success and increase visibility among the investor audience. We engage with marketing / communication teams to develop activities as it relates to formulated ESG objectives. We make certain a coherent internal and external set of messages and communications platform. Our team works across the organization’s division leaders to develop market materials for ESG initiatives.

Our ESG professionals will manage a wide range of copy (content strategy/marketing), including press releases, website content, social media posts and written interviews. We nurture the development of your earned and/or paid media strategy to ensure a steady flow of positive news about your ESG progress – hence, driving an increase in national and international coverage. 

Who Benefits: External stakeholders, investors, executive team and the board.


4. Manage company’s competitive intelligence, business and data analytics needs

A few of our team members come from an investor background, having worked with institutional investors in the past; therefore we understand the ESG integration and ESG data needs that builds upon the investor’s confidence on your ESG progress. We have data tools and a vetted data provider network to share timely ESG data with your investors or other stakeholders as and when needed. We ensure data integrity and honesty in presenting your ESG progress to all stakeholders. 

We also have internal data tools (a couple also driven by Artificial Intelligence) to share recommendations for us to create, pivot or manage ESG initiatives. We can leverage these tools to timely manage risks or to gain a competitive industry advantage. 


5. Reports Audit and Showcasing Impact

We have internal team members with expertise in reporting frameworks and standards such as TCFD, GRI or SASB. Our engagement with you includes checking, auditing and maintaining the sanctity of these reports. We ensure ESG integrity in such reports and that the presentation is clear, concise and well understood by all stakeholders, readers and investors. Showcasing your impact remains our first priority, and we make certain thats its backed up by data to maintain your ESG integrity.

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