ESG Strategy: Embedding Sustainability for Long-Term Success

How CBGA’s Approach Elevates Your ESG Strategy

CBGA creates tailored ESG strategies that embed sustainability into your organization's very being. We help businesses understand and navigate tools and frameworks such as SASB (Sustainability Accounting Standards Board), GRI (Global Reporting Initiative), and TCFD (Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures) that can enable businesses to address all important ESG factors with speed and transparency with their stakeholders. We take our clients through the following steps:

We assess which ESG factors are most relevant in your industry and to your stakeholders through the use of tools such as SASB and GRI, allowing you to direct impactful efforts towards addressing ESG factors that ultimately matter most to your industry and stakeholders.

We focus on institutionalizing SASB Standards and ISO 14001 principles into the business's core strategy so that sustainability is an operational model and integral to the forward lifecycle of the products.

We manage a governance structure using frameworks like TCFD, which identifies who is responsible and to hold leadership accountable for ESG performance and ensure they are looking at sustainability long term as a concern of the investment process.

We utilize programs such as CDP (Carbon Disclosure Project) and Bloomberg’s ESG Analytics to collect data that will monitor your initiatives and check to see how you are doing with your KPIs and keep check your compliance with regulations while using this data to report out to your investors and stakeholders.

Case Study: A Path to ESG Excellence

A global manufacturing company reached out to CBGA to implement its operations and establish an ESG framework that met regulatory compliance but also extreme market advantage. Employing TCFD frameworks, we conducted a full materiality assessment and determined high-priority ESG items area to address including pandemic elements, reduction in carbon emissions, improving labor practices, and enhancing governance.
Key steps included:

By utilizing renewable energy sources and increasing logistics efficiencies, we helped reduced the company’s carbon footprint by 20% in the first year which was noted using tools from CDP.

As per the GRI standards, we created a comprehensive social responsibility program which assisted in improving worker conditions and increasing diversity across the organization.

We established an ESG oversight committee using the TCFD framework which placed senior leadership in direct monitoring of the company’s sustainability development.

The company was viewed as the arena's leader in ESG, gained new investors, stakeholders engaged positively and stock value climbed by 15%. A significant change also occurred with their analysts' Bloomberg ESG Analytics score.

The Outcome

With CBGA's work in ESG using widely recognized standards namely: SASB, GRI and TCFD, your business will achieve:

Differentiate your brand as a sustainable leader attracting customers, staff and investors.

Will take the guesswork out of the ongoing changes in regulations with reporting aligned to CDP, TCFD, and other frameworks.

Develop operational efficiencies, minimize risk and enhance revenue opportunities with sustainability as a part of your business plan.

Engaging with CBGA to create an ESG strategy that can meet today's needs but also position your business to be a sustainable leader in the future.