Sustainability consulting with ScottMadden involves embedding sustainability initiatives into your core business in a scalable way. Corporate sustainability efforts go beyond sustainable investing, a common part of sustainability initiatives. They reach into all areas of business, including the supply chain, how the business affects the climate, and actions that can mitigate those effects, as well as integrated resource planning.

Materiality Assessments and Stakeholder Engagement

• To ensure that corporate strategy includes and meets the needs of stakeholders, organizations often leverage materiality assessments to help them engage with key stakeholders and inform their sustainability focus areas, goals, and initiatives. ScottMadden can help your organization engage internal and external stakeholders through surveys and interviews to identify material ESG issues, whether you are at the beginning of or years into your sustainability journey.

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Reporting

• As investors and other stakeholders emphasize ESG metrics, organizations of all sizes are expected to disclose and manage their ESG-related risks. We have experience with SASB, GRI, and EEI reporting, and we can help you tell your sustainability story to investors, customers, and other key stakeholders.

Carbon Accounting and Neutrality

• Organizations that proactively reduce or mitigate their carbon emissions may be better prepared for the changing business landscape. At ScottMadden, we understand carbon markets, carbon reporting, and issues associated with climate adaptation. We can help you understand your full emissions profile, carbon-related business risks, and mitigation strategies.

Utility and Organizational Renewables Strategy

• As demand for renewable energy and corporate-driven power purchase agreements (PPAs) increases, ScottMadden is well-poised to utilize our deep energy industry knowledge, and we can help you develop your renewables procurement strategy to meet decarbonization goals.

Integrated Resource Planning and Decarbonization Strategy

• As utilities look to meet their decarbonization goals, determining how to incorporate strategies to reduce carbon (e.g., energy efficiency programs, renewables, battery storage, and other new technologies) into long-range planning will be key to meeting clean energy goals. ScottMadden has vast experience assisting utility clients of all sizes, and we can help your organization evaluate the strategic implications of portfolio changes, including financial and rate analysis.

Benchmarking

• Our clients report against multiple ESG-reporting frameworks and often find that sustainability benchmarking is difficult due to the lack of standardization in the industry. Our benchmarking methods can help your organization assess performance, identify gaps, and target high-potential areas to improve overall ESG performance.

Sustainability Strategy and Planning

• ScottMadden enables organizations to use sustainable practices as an advantage by helping them identify strategies that provide a competitive edge, improve sustainability metrics and ensure the seamless integration of these objectives into their overall business plan.