Strategy and targets
We can help set out your vision, define where you’re headed, map out key milestones and build your roadmap.
How we’ve helped others
For Helios Towers
To help Helios Towers realise its sustainability ambitions, we conducted a deep dive into the company’s DNA with a gap analysis, peer review and stakeholder interviews. We then created a sustainability strategy and defined key performance indicators, which were unveiled in the company’s Sustainable Business Strategy Summary in 2020.
How we can help you
- Assess your ESG maturity against your peers and best practice standards.
- Plan and roll out your strategy roadmap.
- Identify priority sustainability topics.
- Set goals, targets and KPIs.
Double materiality assessment
Understand your impact, identify risks and opportunities, and prioritise investments through our comprehensive materiality assessment.
How we’ve helped others
For Duchy of Cornwall
Flag completed an assessment to update the Duchy of Cornwall’s materiality assessment, introducing a double materiality concept. We conducted desk-based research, gathered insights from a stakeholder survey and facilitated an internal workshop to refine our findings, all of which have been compiled into a final report and matrix. The findings will be used to inform the Duchy’s ESG strategy and reporting.
How we can help you
- Identify your company’s outward impact, financial risks and opportunities.
- Facilitate stakeholder interviews, surveys and workshops.
- Generate auditable results and strategic recommendations.
- Conduct CSRD-compliant double materiality assessments.
CSRD readiness
We can make sure your company is ready to meet the requirements of the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD).
How we’ve helped others
For Deoleo
We helped the world’s largest olive oil company plan for new regulatory requirements through a CSRD-readiness roadmap. This involved conducting Deoleo’s first materiality assessment, which included robust desk-based research and a survey of hundreds of stakeholders. Our analysis shaped Deoleo’s materiality matrix, which informed its ‘Nurturing Healthier Futures’ strategy.
How we can help you
- Offer CSRD advisory.
- Prepare CSRD-readiness roadmaps.
- Conduct ESRS gap analyses.
Impact assessments
Our specialised topic-focused assessments can help your business elevate the impact of its efforts, including in human rights, nature and communities.
How we’ve helped others
For Hershey
We worked with Hershey to conduct an intensive human rights saliency assessment, helping the company refocus its human rights policies and programmes. We consulted on the development of a new human rights policy and facilitated a stakeholder consultation process to review and refine the policy before it was formalised and launched.
How we can help you
- Conduct human rights assessments, eg saliency assessments.
- Stakeholder and rightsholder assessments.
- Identify nature-related risks and management approach.
Rater and ranker improvement
We’ll help you improve your rater and ranker scores with an approach that is bespoke to you and your industry.
How we’ve helped others
We carried out a gap analysis for a UK-based transport company to identify the areas where they could make the largest impact to their GRESB score. With our support, the organisation was able to improve their score by 44% in a single year.
How we can help you
- Identify raters and rankers most relevant to your industry, including MSCI, EcoVadis, GRESB and Sustainalytics.
- Conduct a gap analysis for you and your industry.
- Uncover areas for score improvement.
Executive training
Empower your leadership with bespoke training sessions to keep you up to date with the ever-changing landscape of sustainability regulations and frameworks.
How we’ve helped others
We delivered an executive training on the latest CSRD requirements for the executive team of a global alcohol brand. This helped them align internally and understand current gaps and improvements needed to be ready to meet their regulatory requirements.
How we can help you
- Build engagement with senior stakeholders, executives and sustainability teams.
- Plan, lead and facilitate training sessions and workshops.
- Develop training materials.