Governance and Strategy
Whether you are starting your sustainability journey, or enhancing your existing framework to target best practice or reporting requirements, establishing strong foundations for your corporate sustainability strategy is core to ensuring long-term success.
Overview
In today’s dynamic landscape, meeting the evolving sustainability expectations of all stakeholders is non-negotiable.
A well-designed sustainability strategy, supported by robust internal frameworks, provides the foundation for an effective response and ensures sustainability is seamlessly embedded across your operations.
By identifying and prioritising the most material issues, you can focus resources where they matter most, balancing competing business demands while integrating sustainability into your core strategy.
Governance and Strategy Services
The case for strong governance and strategic business planning is well established, yet effective implementation is not a given when sustainable practices need to be factored into the equation. Our team of experts is here to help you develop robust sustainability frameworks, governance and internal capacity for a meaningful and impactful sustainability response.
Our proprietary Cascade tool provides a unique single framework for companies to identify key requirements and strategic actions, paving the way towards best practice sustainability and governance.
Action and Resource Allocation
Management Incentives
KPIs, Targets and Benchmarking
Board Awareness and Training
Sustainability Due Diligence
Is your Company Prepared to Meet its Sustainability Requirements?
Cascade delivers a systematic, materiality-based assessment to pinpoint sustainability risks and requirements, evaluate current strengths and weaknesses and create a clear plan for the future.
For Companies​​​
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Assess how effectively your business is meeting the sustainability demands of all stakeholders in a constantly evolving environment.
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Avoid reputational damage by ensuring compliance with sustainability regulations and reporting obligations.
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Strengthen governance structures and corporate responsibility policies.
For Mergers and Acquistions (M&A)​​​
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Identify the sustainability risks and maturity of an acquisition target.
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Outline required post-acquisition integration strategy.
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Establish an acquisition's impact on your business' current sustainability plans and strategy.
For Investors and Private Equity​​​
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Evaluate the implications of a new investment on your portfolio.
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Identify sustainability-driven improvements for value creation.
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Determine readiness for divestment.
Why Choose CEN?
Cascade is one of the most detailed assessments in the market, incorporating stakeholder-relevant inputs across all sustainability standards, voluntary frameworks, investor needs, regulation and sustainability rating agency methodology and scoring.
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User-friendly, quantified assessment reports deliver unrivalled sustainability information in terms of quality, breath and depth.
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Focus on the implications of stakeholder requirements on the business.
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Identification of internal responsibilities and the internal resources, processes, and system requirements needed to satisfy stakeholder needs.
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Support for the integration of requirements at both the functional and Group levels.
Materiality and Double Materiality Assessments
Focus on What Matters Most for your Long-Term Success
Our financial materiality assessment and double materiality assessment services help organisations determine which sustainability factors have the greatest impact on their business, stakeholders, and financial performance.
Identify sustainability impacts, risks and opportunities that are critical to business success.​​
Incorporate value chain and stakeholder sustainability strategy with stakeholder expectations. ​
Ensure compliance with reporting frameworks (e.g. CSRD, IFRS S1, AASB and GRI). ​​​
Include 'Inside out' impacts on stakeholders and the environment and 'Outside in' risks and opportunities on the business​.
Why Choose CEN?
Start your corporate sustainability journey, or determine your regulatory reporting requirements with our Materiality Services.
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Proven assurance-ready results and supporting documentation for CSRD and IFRS S1.
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Data-driven insights from quantified and score impacts, risks and opportunities.
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Comprehensive value-chain inclusion and pain free stakeholder engagement.
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​Develop responsible, actionable targets and KPIs for sustainable development.
Let us help you define what matters.
Sustainability Framework, Policies and Governance
Building a Foundation for Long-Term Success
Use a materiality-led strategy to embed sustainability principles and ambition into your core business, ensuring long-term success, regulatory compliance, and stakeholder trust, driving value, resilience, and sustainable growth.
Identify structure, process, action and data gaps against key material exposures.
Outline a relevant Sustainability Committee and set their responsibility.
Prioritise internal resources.
Develop the internal systems, process, and data to support your response.
Develop near- and long-term ambitions and targets.
Why Choose CEN?
Our team provides a customised framework, shaped by your industry and fit to your specific requirements.
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Sustainability strategy aligned to regulatory requirements, stakeholder expectations, and long-term business objectives.
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Robust and comprehensive policies across all material sustainability aspects.
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Internal governance structures for sustainability oversight, accountability, and reporting.
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Actionable recommendations, tailored to your business and its maturity.
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Support for implementation and dissemination.
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Preparation for evolving disclosure and reporting requirements.
Find out how CEN has helped international companies across sectors maximise their sustainability potential, performance and disclosure.
