Sustainability strategy

An effective sustainability strategy helps create long-term value for your organisation and stakeholders. Aligning a strategy with your business objectives and integrating it into your day-to-day operations can be challenging. Forvis Mazars has the right approach and solutions to help you define a strategy that meets your needs.

Our approach for a successful sustainability strategy

Regardless of the size of your business or the sector you operate in, our team has the expertise to work with you to define and implement a sustainability strategy tailored to your organisation.

Our sustainability specialists will work alongside you to develop a robust strategy, build trust with stakeholders, set clear metrics to assess performance and minimise legal, organisational and reputational risks.

We help you develop a strategy based on the sustainability areas that are critical to your organisation, taking into account both financial and impact materiality ("double materiality").

Our solutions for sustainability strategy

In developing the strategy, we exploit the interplay between different aspects and stages of development - from analysis to implementation and evaluation. Our approach to implementing sustainability strategies includes the following steps, which can be applied in a modular way to organisations of all sizes and sectors:

Double materiality analysis and stakeholder engagement

• Alignment of existing materiality analysis towards double materiality principles or full double materiality analysis and assessment – impact materiality/financial materiality
• Stakeholder analysis and engagement  
• Consolidation of material topics

Sustainability risk management and integration

• Gap analysis of existing Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) towards sustainability topics
• Integration of sustainability risks into existing ERM

Sustainability strategy formulation and implementation

• Sustainability strategy development – from identifying material topics to policies and procedures, action plans and measures, targets, and KPIs
• Support with implementation of the sustainability strategy – planning and organisation
• Board and Management awareness
• Governance structure to steer the strategy

Our added value

Our interdisciplinary project teams work in close and trusting collaboration with your organisation’s representatives and stakeholders. For a more in-depth examination of international aspects, we draw on the expertise of our sustainability experts from 100 countries worldwide as needed.

The advantages of working with us:

• Compliance validation for your organisation
• Positive reputation among clients, investors, employees, other stakeholders and society
• Opportunities for new business models and business fields

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