Sustainability Strategy Solutions

Sustainability has become a business imperative for all. Investors, consumers, regulators, and policymakers are driving change by choosing environmentally responsible brands.

Organizations are increasingly working to minimize their environmental footprint, source responsibly, innovate around product and resource life cycles, and be transparent in how they report their progress and commitments.

A strategy for how to manage sustainability or Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) within your organization is critical. It will ensure key priorities are being addressed, resources are allocated, and stakeholders are sent clear messages.

The experts at NSF can recommend solutions to meet your business needs with:

We’ll analyze the strengths and opportunities of your ESG or sustainability efforts. NSF experts use the outcomes to analyze your performance and recommend the next steps in your ESG journey.

• Internal benchmarking: an inventory of your existing ESG practices and their KPIs to identify gaps.
• Sustainability Scan: a “lite” version of a comprehensive internal benchmarking, the Scan provides insightful analysis of foundational and intermediate actions that should be taken across ESG (including supply chain activities) to meet the most common ESG reporting and client demands.
• Market assessment: a review of sustainability practices being implemented by your peers to give you a benchmark for success.

For goal setting or ESG reporting, we’ll advise on the data that should be collected, how to collect it, and how to calculate baselines.

We can also help perform these calculations for your organization. Metrics can include greenhouse gas (GHG) calculations, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), packaging indicators, corporate giving, and employee development.

We’ll use rigorous quantitative and qualitative analysis to identify the sustainability issues that are most important to your organization. This includes a double-materiality lens that incorporates a view of risks and aligns with emerging regulatory requirements.

We’ll offer expert guidance on how to set your overarching mission, pillars, goals, and initiatives.

Your sustainability and corporate strategies will be aligned, and we can help you develop multi-year action plans, measures, and metrics to track your progress and outcomes.

Based on your priorities, sustainability experts will work with you to produce your core ESG policies or perform a gap assessment of your existing processes. This can include Environmental, DEI, Purchasing, and Supplier Codes of Conduct.