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ESG strategy

A materiality assessment
turned into a capital plan

Turning a materiality assessment into a capital plan, with targets the operating business has agreed it can hit.
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ESG strategy
$2.4B
Capital plans reviewed
9
Frameworks mapped from one data set
3 yr
Typical roadmap horizon
Strategy that reaches the budget
Overview

Strategy that reaches the budget

A strategy that does not change where money goes is a document. We work the other way: from material topics to interventions, costs, owners and dates.
Material topic prioritization
Marginal abatement cost curves
Scenario and sensitivity testing
Target setting and validation
Capital plan integration
Quarterly delivery tracking
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Benefits

Why strategy has to
touch the capital plan

Six reasons the strategies that deliver are the ones written alongside a finance team rather than presented to one.
Costed decisions
Costed decisions
Every intervention carries a cost per tonne, so trade-offs are made with numbers rather than instinct.
Real abatement
Real abatement
Sequencing against replacement cycles avoids writing off working equipment to hit a date.
Resilience tested
Resilience tested
Targets are stress-tested against demand, price and policy scenarios before they are announced.
Funding aligned
Funding aligned
Grants, credits and sustainability-linked finance are modeled into the plan from the start.
Delivery tracked
Delivery tracked
Each intervention has an owner, a date and a measurement, reviewed quarterly.
Credible over time
Credible over time
A plan built on the capital cycle is one the business can still afford three years in.
The reasoning behind every commitment
Why we are

The reasoning behind every commitment

We would rather hand you a smaller target you will hit than a larger one that quietly slips each year.
Abatement modeled, not assumed
Curves built from your asset register and your own capital plan.
Honest residuals
The last ten percent is stated and planned for, not left to a future technology.
Scenario tested
Targets checked against the futures where demand grows and power prices fall.
Owned internally
Each line has a named owner inside the business before the plan is signed off.

Strategy is the part where sustainability stops being a reporting function and starts competing for capital. It is also where most programs stall, because the honest version requires someone to say what will not get funded.

Targets that are modeled, not announced

We take each material topic and build a marginal abatement curve against your actual asset base: what each intervention costs, what it delivers, and when it can realistically be executed given maintenance cycles and capital availability. The curve usually shows that the first third of the reduction pays for itself, the second third is roughly neutral, and the last third needs either a technology that is not yet commercial or a change to the business model.

That is a useful conversation to have before a target is public rather than after.

What a strategy document contains

  • A small number of headline commitments, each with a modeled pathway
  • The interim milestones that make progress visible before the target year
  • The capital and operating expenditure required, by year, in the same format as the rest of the plan
  • The explicit list of things the company has decided not to do, and why

A target without a capital line behind it is a forecast about somebody else’s decisions.

Science-based targets

Where you are submitting to a science-based framework, we handle the pathway selection, the base year recalculation policy, the Scope 3 ambition test and the submission itself. Validation questions are usually about boundary and about the Scope 3 coverage threshold; both are easier to answer if the inventory work was done properly first.

Keeping it alive

We install a quarterly rhythm: each commitment reports actuals against pathway, variances get an explanation, and the roadmap is re-baselined once a year. The purpose is to catch drift in the second year, when it is still cheap to fix, rather than in the seventh, when the only remaining option is to restate the target.

FAQs

Frequently asked
questions

Frequently asked questions
Photovoltaic modules convert sunlight directly into direct current electricity, which an inverter converts to alternating current for your site or the grid. Output follows irradiance rather than demand, which is why we model your hourly load alongside the resource before fixing a system size.
Every engagement starts from your own data — interval meter readings, an asset register, or a year of on-site measurement — rather than from a template. The design that follows is sized to your load profile, site constraints and growth plan, and we show you the trade-offs we made on the way.
Advisory engagements usually run six to sixteen weeks. Built projects depend almost entirely on permitting and grid connection: a commercial rooftop can be energized inside a year, while utility-scale generation typically runs two to four years from site control to commercial operation.
Yes. We build the inventory, install the controls, map one data set out to whichever frameworks apply to you, and draft the disclosure itself. We also run assurance readiness reviews so the first engagement with an auditor is not the first time the process is tested.
We build the pathway from your asset register, aligning abatement to replacement cycles so you are not writing off working equipment. We also quantify the residual emissions honestly and help you procure durable removals against them, rather than assuming the last ten percent away.