Committing to sustainable business practices requires a strategic approach, and a high-quality ESG materiality assessment is a vital tool in guiding those efforts.
Materiality assessments enable organisations to identify and prioritise the most relevant Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) factors impacting their operations and stakeholders, allowing them to focus on areas where they can make the greatest impact. In a rapidly evolving regulatory landscape, understanding your ESG risks and opportunities has also become essential to compliance.
Our approach to materiality is customised to meet the unique needs of each organisation. We go beyond simply providing a comprehensive understanding of sustainability’s role in creating value for your business—our team helps identify the ESG factors that most significantly impact both your operations and stakeholders.
ESG Materiality Assessment Services
Our ESG Materiality services, including double materiality assessments, support you in meeting reporting requirements while laying a strategic foundation for informed decision-making and future planning. If you’re seeking guidance with your ESG strategy, materiality assessment, emissions reduction, or broader sustainability initiatives, our experts are here to help.
Assessing materiality is a chance for the company to identify where it can make a positive difference, and also to identify value-add opportunities for the business. It should engage a broad range of stakeholders to be robust and accurate, and be conducted by a team with expertise in the full range of ESG issues
An example materiality matrix
Our Approach
The key to developing an ESG strategy is assessing the material ESG impacts of a company. This involves identifying the sustainability factors that have a significant impact on the company’s financial value, as well as the impacts of the company’s activities on the economy, environment or people.
Tailored to your needs – Every organisation faces different pressures and opportunities. We develop an evidence base, method and engagement process tailored to your needs and the decisions you want to inform.
Balancing opinions with evidence – We take an objective approach to your materiality assessment – whether that is through footprint data, risk assessment results or other evidence-based research while valuing and integrating more subjective input from a variety of stakeholders.
The power of data visualisations – We use interactive dashboards to enable easy and effective analysis of materiality survey outcomes with our clients, who in turn use these dashboards to present outcomes to their leadership teams in a professional and engaging way.
Aligning within the organisation – We support you to collaborate with key internal functions, such as strategic planning, customer insights, and enterprise risk, to gather their insights and align with their processes.
The challenge with this type of project [materiality assessment] is to find the right partner that instinctively understands what is needed, and can deliver efficiently against the project brief. Anthesis’ way of working and communicating enabled us to execute the project on time, on budget, and to an excellent standard.
Julian Lings, North Face, Materiality
Anthesis supported us in the preparation of our Integrated Report and in the development of the materiality analysis of Roche Colombia. Their experience and knowledge were key to allowing us to focus on the most important issues for our company and stakeholders, and helped them [our stakeholders] understand our advances in environmental, economic, social and good corporate governance.
We are ESG specialists. Unlike large business management consultancies, our team of experts specialise entirely on the various E, S, and G components that make our service as deep as it is broad. We span emissions reduction, climate risk, human rights, counter-slavery, and tie it all together with practiced ESG strategy.
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