ESG strategy · Reporting · Assurance readiness
Disclosure has become regulation. Claims have become liabilities. EthiqESG helps companies build environmental, social and governance programmes on evidence a regulator, an auditor or an investor can follow line by line.
What we do
Most ESG work fails in one of two ways: it never leaves the slide deck, or it says more than the data can support. We are engaged to fix both.
Double materiality assessments grounded in real stakeholder engagement, translated into a roadmap with owners, budgets and dates — not aspirations.
GHG inventories built to the GHG Protocol, including the Scope 3 categories most companies would rather skip, plus credible decarbonisation pathways.
Sustainability statements that map cleanly to the framework your market demands, with every number traceable to a source system.
Preparation for the questionnaires and analysts that increasingly decide your cost of capital and your place on a customer's approved-vendor list.
The "G" that the market quietly weights heaviest: oversight that works, policies people follow, and supply chains you can actually vouch for.
Sustainability data is moving under the auditor's lens. We build the controls, evidence trails and documentation before the assurance provider asks.
How we work
A first engagement typically runs eight to twelve weeks. You will know by week two whether the numbers hold.
We audit what exists — data, policies, prior disclosures — and map it against the frameworks that apply to you. The output is an honest gap register, including the gaps nobody wanted written down.
Double materiality separates the issues that move your business and your impact from the noise. Everything downstream is scoped against that shortlist.
Data pipelines, calculation methodologies, policies, targets and controls — implemented with your teams so capability stays in-house when we leave.
We draft the disclosure, defend the methodology, and walk it through assurance. Then we hand over a repeatable cycle rather than a consultant's dependency.
Why it matters now
For a decade, sustainability communication was a marketing exercise. That period has closed. Mandatory regimes now carry the same expectations of accuracy, traceability and assurance that financial reporting has carried for a century — and regulators, litigators and procurement teams have all started reading.
The companies that come through this well are not the ones with the boldest commitments. They are the ones whose claims are boring, specific and provable.
Ask us where you standAbout
EthiqESG is an independent sustainability advisory practice. We work with mid-market companies, listed groups and their investors on the unglamorous end of ESG: methodology, data, controls and disclosure.
We take a deliberately small number of engagements at a time, and the people who scope your work are the people who do it. Where a claim cannot be evidenced, we will tell you before your auditor does.
If it cannot be traced to a source, it does not go in the report.
No framework alphabet soup where a sentence of English will do.
Your team should be able to run the next cycle without us.
No product to sell you, no offsets to place, no conflicts on the file.
Get in touch
Tell us where you are — first report, mid-programme, or preparing for assurance — and we will tell you what the next three months should look like. Introductory calls are free and unhurried.
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