Sustainability & ESG

For companies to succeed in the 21st century, sustainability and social responsibility must be at the heart of their business model.

Sustainable and responsible business practices, known as ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance), help organisations efficiently manage risks, increase profit, reduce costs and improve their reputation and branding.

Increasingly, key business stakeholders, including clients, employees, suppliers and investors, have been paying attention to these parameters and making decisions based on how your business approaches ESG issues.

Our approach

At Forvis Mazars, we believe that profit generation and sustainable business are not in conflict. We can help you with your corporate social responsibility strategy from its design and implementation to the issuance of your Sustainability Report and its audit.

Based on your needs, we will build a team of ESG experts specialized in projects related to:

product responsibility;
circular economy;
climate change risk assessment;
diversity and work ethics;
green offices and other CSR areas.

At the beginning of the process, we will help you define key stakeholders and conduct a stakeholder dialog to identify material ESG issues that are relevant for your company. We will set objectives and systems for managing and monitoring them.

We have cooperated with clients that have a strong global corporate responsibility strategy but lack the support and structure at a local level. If this sounds like you, we will be happy to provide you with high quality training sessions and advise you on how to properly set up corporate responsibility management at a local level.

Our services

Setting up CSR strategy and rules for managing responsibility towards

The environment (green offices, climate change adaptation, decarbonisation, environmental management, environmental policies)
Employees (promoting gender, age and other diversities at the workplace, employee training and engagement into building a sustainable corporate culture)
Clients (product responsibility, environmental and social innovations for service products, ethical marketing)
Suppliers (respecting human and work rights, due diligence, environmental supplier chain management, code of conduct for suppliers)
Business partners (ethics and business integrity, code of conduct, anti-corruption programmes)
Community (community investment and philanthropy based on B4SI methodology)

Implementing corporate social responsibility

Current situation analysis, for example with ESG Health Check tool developed by Forvis Mazars
Dialog with stakeholders to identify partners’ needs, gather information for decision-making and increase trust and transparency
Introducing international standard ISO 26000 Social Responsibility and other ISO standards
Design and implementation of partial programmes and initiatives in the area of ethics and business integrity, responsibility towards employees, suppliers and clients
CSR trainings for staff, suppliers, distributors and other stakeholders

Responsible business report consulting and audit

Reporting based on Global Reporting Initiative standards
Reporting based on UN Global Compact initiative principles

Our services are performed in line with Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) standards, ISO 26000 standard and other regulations and solutions that will provide your business with a long-term support. Our approach to CSR is based on recent scientific research and our own studies. Read more about our regularly published studies below.

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Our insights

ESG Newsletter 4/2024 – EU Taxonomy and Standards

Following on from the previous overview of key EU regulations (found in the January newsletter), we have selected the Taxonomy and Standards, which we will talk more about today. These regulations stand side by side, yet they are intertwined.

ESG Newsletter 1/2024 – ESG legislation

In today’s business world, where environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors play an increasingly important role, it is essential that companies understand the relevant legislation, fully engage in its compliance and adopt its principles. Sustainability, the proper care of people and honest management should be an integral part of every company’s business. The subsequently acquired transparency...

Sustainability practices stocktake

Financial institutions have a leading role to play in shaping our sustainable future, and a strong need to reboot and shift to a more responsible finance model. As a core component of the economy, they bear the responsibility of upholding rigour and resilience in their risk management. With time running out to achieve a move towards nature-positive outcomes, what sustainability progress have banks...

IFRS Sustainability Disclosure Standards

On 26 June 2023, the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) published the first two IFRS Sustainability Disclosure Standards: IFRS S1 – General Requirements for Disclosure of Sustainability-related Financial Information and IFRS S2 – Climate-related Disclosures.

Mazars for good: Sustainability report 2022

Our history at Mazars is one of sustainable and inclusive growth, and for the fourth consecutive year, we are proud to release our 2022 sustainability report, which reflects our core values and shares our public commitment in action. As a responsible firm, we have ensured that the contents of the information disclosed are transparent, comprehensive and consistent non-financial metrics that exhibit...

Sustainability events

Discover our sustainability events.

ESG: Where are you on the journey?

As environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues rise in global importance and increasingly dominate the business narrative, the Mazars report ESG: Where are you on the journey? sets out choices and pathways for companies of all sizes and sectors as they look to embark on the transition to a more sustainable business model.

ESRS sustainability regulations released

As a framework for sustainability reporting, Set 1 of European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS) lay the foundations of the standardised common language for sustainability-related matters throughout Europe.

Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive(CSRD)

In April 2021, the European Commission adopted the draft Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive, or CSRD, which significantly strengthens the current sustainability reporting requirements of the Non-Financial Reporting Directive (NFRD) and expands the scope of companies concerned.

Sustainable finance brochure

There is increasing recognition that climate change and other ESG risks jeopardise the world’s economy and financial systems.

Sustainable finance policy tracker

Financial services organisations around the world are rethinking how they work in order to better embed sustainability into their business models. At the same time, climate stress tests are entering the mainstream in many jurisdictions. But even though regulation is fast developing, there is still a lack of consistency in the methods used and the extent of the commitments.

Dne 16. prosince 2022 byla zveřejněna nová směrnice o nefinančním reportování (Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive, dále jen CSRD) v Úředním věstníku Evropské unie (OJEU). Tato publikace je výsledkem procesu trvajícího několik měsíců od návrhu CSRD Evropskou komisí (EK) v dubnu 2021, až po politickou dohodu dosaženou v červnu 2022 (o mírně pozměněné verzi původního návrhu CSRD) a následné formální přijetí Parlamentem a Radou.