Sustainability - American Auditing

Creating value through sustainability

Building a sustainable business is about making a tangible difference — cultivating smarter business for a stronger world. You want to drive value and fuel growth while strengthening our environment and society. Our teams are ready to help you build greater resilience and trust by making strategic moves to manage your environmental, climate and social impacts; and by addressing regulations, investments and metrics across ESG (environmental, social and governance) opportunities.

With our ESG consulting services, AA empower businesses to integrate sustainability into their operations, enhance their reputation, and drive long-term value.

How we can help

Strategy
Transformation
Sustainability training

Strategy

Strategic sustainability is adopting a ‘value lens’ approach to enable long-term, sustainable value for your business by effectively and responsibly managing environmental and socioeconomic impacts. Defining a sustainability vision that complements your organisation’s overall purpose, vision, and values helps to upholds society’s trust in businesses. This comes through identifying, managing and monitoring material sustainability risks and opportunities that supports responsible and purpose-led decision making.

What we can help:

Internal analysis: Gap assessment to understand your internal ESG practices.
External analysis:
– Peer benchmarking and market trends analysis to see your position on the market.
– Regulatory analysis for compliance purpose
Index/ ratings performance to see where you are on the roadmap to achieve your desire ratings.
Materiality assessment: Carry out materiality assessment to identify, enhance and prioritise the sustainability issues that are material to your business, enabling a targeted response towards sustainability.
Sustainability strategy: Develop your own Sustainability/Net Zero/ESG strategy to achieve your sustainability value proposition.
Roadmap development: Develop an implementation roadmap for your business to operationalise your sustainability strategy, which will include prioritised initiatives, enablers, milestones, and key performance indicators that track and monitor progress.

Transformation

The increasing recognition of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors as critical elements in determining the sustainability and ethical impact of an organisation has underscored the necessity for ESG transformation. This transformation is not just about risk management or compliance but about leveraging opportunities to innovate, improve resilience, and build trust with stakeholders. Organisations worldwide are thus urged to integrate ESG principles into their core strategies, operational practices, and corporate cultures to ensure long-term sustainability and success in an ever-evolving global marketplace.

What we can help:

Identifying & prioritising initiatives: We will assess your organisation’s impact, conduct materiality assessments, engage stakeholders, and align the initiatives with strategic goals to effectively address your organisation’s environmental, social, and governance impacts, risks, and opportunities.
Policies & procedures: Develop policies and procedures to address ESG aspects that meet your stakeholders’ expectations, and ensure your organisation’s values are respected and reinforced.
Governance: Establishing a ESG governance framework & detailed TOR to effectively manage ESG practices in business.
Culture, mindset, capability & capacity building:
– Facilitate smooth transitions, overcome resistance, and ensure stakeholders embrace the necessary shifts in mindset and behavior to support sustainable practices.
– Develop key performance indicators to manage ESG performance towards pre-determined goals.
Sustainable finance: Develop sustainable finance framework and sustainable finance product (including green bond, green loan, SLL and so on).
ESG risk integration (ESG Risk Management framework): Integrating ESG factors into companies’ risk management framework, including scenario analysis.

Sustainability training

ESG training is crucial for embedding sustainability into the heart of an organisation. It equips employees across all levels with the understanding and skills to make decisions that align with environmental, social, and governance principles. This knowledge fosters a culture of responsibility, encourages innovative thinking for sustainable solutions, and ensures that ESG considerations are integrated into everyday business practices, ultimately driving the organisation towards more ethical, sustainable, and profitable operations.

What we can help:

Enhance the knowledge, skills, and competencies of employees to effectively implement and manage ESG initiatives through multiple training sessions and online courses