ESG & sustainability enquiries

Give the sustainability question a clear purpose

Your organisation may be responding to customer information requests, examining reporting expectations or setting priorities for improvement. Tell Aspire which decision or audience the work needs to support so the scope and specialist input can be assessed.

The published consulting scope includes sustainability and ESG reporting enquiries.

Understand the information landscape

• The reporting request, framework or customer expectation involved.
• Activities, sites and the period under consideration.
• Available environmental, social and governance information.
• Data owners, known gaps and the intended audience for the output.

Make responsibilities and outputs explicit

Discuss the review, data organisation, learning or preparation work your team needs. A practical brief identifies who supplies and checks information, which questions require specialist input and how limitations will be recorded.

This helps avoid producing a broad statement that the available evidence cannot support.

Choose the appropriate level of review

A proposal should specify the framework, deliverables and boundaries of the work. Independent assurance and any applicable regulatory obligations need the appropriate separate review. Share the reporting timetable so the proposed engagement can be planned around it.