From shifting regulations and changing stakeholder expectations, global organisations of all sizes across industries are seeing sustainability and climate change as critical business challenges. At the same time, leading organisations are also using sustainability as a market differentiating opportunity to accelerate innovation, performance, and long-term value creation.
BDO Digital’s Sustainability Approach
BDO Digital’s approach recognises that this agenda is core to compliance, risk management and commercial differentiation. We ensure ESG consideration complements your core business objectives. Our experienced team helps you create and protect value by addressing ESG issues and regulations. We believe that minimising environmental impact increases efficiency, while taking care of people and contributing positively to society promotes sustainability.
BDO Digital employs Microsoft Sustainability Manager, to build a platform to better track progress and be leveraged to implement AI-driven solutions to improve your sustainability profile. Utilising tools like the Azure Emissions Impact Dashboard to help manage ethical and sustainability risks, your organisation becomes more attractive to investors and stakeholders.
ESG Service Highlights
Strategic Consulting: Consulting to deliver transparent methodologies for business resilience and sustainable growth, integrating commercial strategy with aligned sustainability and ESG priorities
Carbon Advisory: Offering compliance, reporting, net zero transition strategy, carbon accounting baseline assessments, and greenhouse gas assurance
Digital & Data Solution: BDO Digital helps clients navigate the intersection between Digital and ESG. We provide expert digital advisory services to support your sustainability goals, including Azure architecture for data governance, quality, engineering, security and Ethical AI.
Sustainable Finance: A comprehensive service supporting pre-issuance readiness and assessment, eligibility criteria navigation, and how a GSS+ bond loan may fit into a company's financial strategy
Actionable Reporting: Reporting to help implement and comply with sustainability accounting and reporting frameworks and standards, aligning periodic reporting to stakeholder value creation imperatives and directly integrating with the Azure Emissions Impact Dashboard and Microsoft Sustainability Manager
BDO Powered Sustainability:
A typical initial assessment would include the following:
Consultation: Discovery to level-set on sustainability and ESG vision, business needs and reporting requirements
Maturity Assessment: Review the maturity of the digital infrastructure, especially Azure, and business process for collecting ESG data for reporting and analysis.
Analysis: Identify challenges and improvement opportunities for reporting accuracy, speed and sustainability profile
Business Case: Develop a business case highlighting cost, savings and efficiencies on ESG reporting and other benefits to improve sustainability profile
Activity and Outcomes
BDO Digital’s partnership with Microsoft and use of Sustainability Manager enables us to provide a tailored, cutting-edge service. We're committed to delivering the best possible service, and our enhanced ESG solution, assisted by AI, delivers comprehensive data for informed decision-making.
Whether it’s compliance challenges, efficiency drives, decarbonisation, sustainable finance, data acquisition and management or new insights and innovation, BDO Digital’s ESG solutions delivers the control, intelligence and value for your business.