Corporate sustainability strategy that is technical, achievable and communicated well.
sustain:able (ESG Able Ltd), a consultancy providing technical advisory services, and Herdwick (Herdwick Communications Ltd), an independently owned strategic communications consultancy, today announce their partnership offering clients a seamless approach to sustainability.
sustain:able develop technically-supported ESG and emissions risk strategies. Herdwick brings best practice, tried and tested communications strategies. Together, they provide a comprehensive, industry-leading ESG solution.
Herdwick and sustain:able both believe that the corporate strategy must include a technically-supported sustainability programme. If it is absent, the organisation’s reputation is exposed and the company will be unable to meet the demands of its stakeholders including employees, investors and regulators.
Dr Rachel Gavey, Co-founder and Commercial Director of sustain:able, said: “We bring a practical approach to the challenges hard-to-abate industries face, with a focus on aviation, energy, mining and those for whom the use of fuels and petrochemicals are integral. We are proud to have a team of experienced technical experts who have worked hands-on with a number of critical industries in locations all around the world. We are excited to be working with Herdwick who value the integrity of technically-backed sustainability communications.”
sustain:able approaches all sustainability, emissions and nature-related strategies with data and risk at the centre of all they do. Working with critical industries, the environmental aspect focuses on emissions accounting, forecasting and reduction planning. Wider environmental issues and a growing awareness of social impacts of companies requires careful stakeholder engagement and cross-functional working. The requirement for sustainability reporting has meant a wider range of companies and those within the supply chain need to meet the reporting requirements. sustain:able recognises that companies may not have the expertise, time or resource in house and by working together develop the strategy ‘making sustainability simple’.
Mike Evans, Co-Founder and Co-Managing Director of Herdwick Communications, said: “Every organisation must find its voice when it comes to communicating ESG. As practitioners, it’s our job to clearly communicate factual information in consumer terms to avoid greenwashing and greenhushing. Herdwick is here to help organisations communicate confidently about their sustainability programme. Through our
partnership with sustain:able, we work alongside the technical experts ensuring that the communications are considered at each point on the journey to net zero.”
Herdwick’s approach is to take technical reporting and create fact-based, consumer-focused communications that prevent greenwashing and hushing. Whether an organisation is just starting the journey or well along the way Herdwick provides sustainability communications kits that enable effective communications to be developed in just 30 days.
Elizabeth Maclean, Co-Founder and Co-Managing Director of Herdwick Communications, said: “sustain:able’s technical strategy provides the blueprint for a long-term and achievable corporate sustainability strategy. Herdwick will develop the communications strategy for each phase of the journey. We recognise that at first this may appear daunting. Our offering helps to lay the foundations so that you can communicate confidently. Remaining committed to the endpoint but by taking a phased approach with clearly defined deliverables makes it manageable and will help to get you up and running quickly.”
Globally, the growth of reporting requirements alongside climate litigation cases, reinforces the need for well thought out, auditable sustainability and net zero or energy transition plans. sustain:able utilises an in-house tool, Wayfinder, to assess each company and set them up on the right path for building their sustainability credentials and reporting into the most relevant frameworks including the Task Force on Climate Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD), International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) and the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) amongst others.
Dr Rosalie Constable, Co-founder and Technical Director of sustain:able, said: “Well-grounded data supported reviews should form the basis for any sustainability strategy. Moreover, it is critical to avoid greenwashing and climate litigation. Herdwick’s ability to understand the complexity of sustainability, to honour the process that companies need to go through and then to be able to communicate this in a well thought out and understandable manner, fits so well with our approach at sustain:able.”
For further information:
Press enquiries:
ESG Able Ltd (sustain:able)
Tel: +44 7586 684 346 Email: rachel@esgable.com
Herdwick Communications
Tel: +44 7888 678 465 and +44 7393 620 625 Email: mike.evans@herdwickcommunications.com and elizabeth.maclean@herdwickcommunications.com
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