Setting your sustainability agenda and direction
Can you explain your organisation’s sustainability governance and approach, priority issues, and where you’re heading with targets for important (including regulatory) requirements like net zero, sustainable sourcing and materials, ethical supply chains and materials or nature impacts?
Do you sometimes struggle to meet customer or investor requests for sustainability / ESG information?
Do you know the impact of current and future regulations and standards and how they affect your business?
Are you at risk of regulatory scrutiny, poor ratings from ESG investors or losing competitive edge to others?
These challenges often reflect the need to enhance or develop sustainability / ESG strategy.
A strong strategy provides:
- clarity on your sustainability context and what’s important for your company
- what you will manage – and why
- the right direction and a strong foundation for building plans that will deliver your sustainability / ESG performance over time
- a coherent platform to communicate your approach to your customers and stakeholders powerfully and consistently.
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Enhance your sustainability / ESG journey with Terrafiniti
We work collaboratively with our customers to provide practical, meaningful solutions that fit the size and objectives of their business. Our approach cuts through the complexity of information and detail to provide clarity, focus and ambition, together with deliverable goals.
Our detailed understanding of ESG and sustainable business requirements in different sectors and applications means we can apply our expertise to help identify the issues that really matter for your business. Partnering with you, we help to create and build a sustainability strategy that supports your wider commercial and business objectives.
Our collaborative approach takes a deep dive into operating models, management systems, value chains, business risks and opportunities. We provide you with the right guidance, direction, focus and plans to deliver sustainable change.
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Terrafiniti’s approach
Sustainability / ESG strategy consulting – we provide the steps you need.
Our innovative and practical approach will help you integrate sustainability with your everyday business priorities and operations.
We specialise in working directly with teams across your business. Our approach builds understanding and engagement to help you meet your business objectives.
Good strategies include some fundamental elements. Depending on what you need, we can help you with all, some or just one of them, according to your needs and objectives.
1. Analyse
A deep dive into your operations, risks, capabilities, and opportunities
If you don’t know where you are, it’s difficult to know where you are going. Utilising our international sustainability expertise supported by a bespoke best practice assessment framework, we review your business activities and dependencies, and assess sustainability risks, capabilities, and opportunities. We can also benchmark you against your peers or competitors.
2. Focus
Identify the material issues for your business
A focus on the issues that matter to you and your stakeholders is vital to your business’ value and future. That’s why ‘Materiality assessment’ is at the heart of global sustainability management and reporting best practice (from GRI, to Europe’s CSRD and forthcoming IFSRS standards). We’ll help you find the material issues for your business and stakeholders and provide DMA – Double Materiality Assessment to satisfy CSRD requirements.
3. Vision
Where are you heading?
A compelling vision for sustainability should describe your desired outcomes and engage staff and stakeholders. Ambition is how far and how fast you’re planning to reach that vision. We have helped many organisations create vision and ambition to guide and drive their progress.
4. Strategy
Deliver your vision and goals
A good strategy provides the basis for effective business decisions – bringing structure, focus and ambition together with deliverable goals for meaningful change. We have helped leading organisations to understand, prioritise and structure their strategies for sustainability so they can build resilience and meet strategic business objectives.
5. Plan
Your actions to implement and deliver
Achieving your goals requires clear and meaningful plans and pathways for action and change. The complexity and long-term nature of sustainability can be daunting. We help teams and business leaders develop structured action plans and route maps including long-term goals, to prepare for and guide progress.
6. Disclose
Responsible communications and reporting progress
You should be able to tell your sustainability story in a way that can be heard by company leadership, investors, owners, customers and all relevant stakeholders. We help you develop a powerful narrative for your sustainability/ESG/responsibility disclosure, reporting and communications.
We also provide advice, support and training in identifying greenwashing – and how to avoid it.
Who we work with
We’ve had the pleasure of working with a range of clients from charities and start-up businesses to large global companies and NGOs.
Lactalis UK & Ireland/Lactalis Nestle Chilled Dairy – review, strategy development, 5-year detailed transformation planning
Outcomes:
- Clear, defendable, and communicable strategic narrative, tackling and driving innovation in a key sector
- Development of first UK CSR Report
- Responsiveness and alignment with the sustainability ambitions of critical customers
Part of Groupe Lactalis, one of the world’s largest dairy companies, Lactalis UK and Ireland and Lactalis Nestle Chilled Dairy (LNCD – a joint venture between Lactalis and Nestle) are one of UK and Ireland’s largest cheese and chilled dairy companies, sourcing and buying sourcing milk from UK farms and manufacturing cheese and yoghurts for supply to major UK retailers and shops of all sizes.
As the environmental and social impacts of the dairy sector have become a key priority in terms of animal welfare, carbon footprint, land management and nature, Lactalis UK and LNCD wanted to build upon strong foundations to create a powerful and consistent ambition for driving sustainability performance.
We worked with Lactalis UK and LNCD to provide overall assessment and analysis of strategic and competitive drivers, materiality assessment and a strong vision and ambition to drive action.
In addition, we worked with teams across the business to identify and plan actions to deliver against that vision, creating detailed 5-year route maps for material areas for the business, from sustainable sourcing to logistics and supply, carbon and procurement.
Hallmark UK & Ireland – review & strategy development
Outcomes
- Clear, defendable, and communicable strategic narrative, tackling and driving innovation in a key sector
- Rigorous ambition and development of strategic goals
- Ability to anticipate, meet and exceed the sustainability ambitions of major customers
Hallmark UK & Ireland is part of the globally recognised Hallmark Group, providing greetings cards, and gifts for celebrations of all kinds.
The company has made huge progress in driving the sustainability of its products, using certified materials for 100% of its cards and innovating the design of its products to remove plastic and unnecessary packaging. They wanted to build upon this firm foundation to continuously improve their performance through a comprehensive sustainability strategy to match their values as well as understand, anticipate and exceed the requirements of their customers with regard to climate and carbon, sustainable materials and innovative design.
We worked with Hallmark UK and Ireland to review their strategic context and capability, assess their performance against competitors and analyse strategic and competitive drivers. We provided sustainability training to the Executive Leadership Team and developed a participatory materiality assessment – together with work on vision and ambition to drive action with clear areas of focus for the development of coordinated action. We are now working with Hallmark to develop action plans and route maps for delivery of their objectives.
3StepIT – review, strategy development and 5-year detailed transformation planning for the circular economy
Outcomes
- ESG Strategy development for fast-growing international business
- Strategic narrative and alignment with EU Sustainable Finance Taxonomy
- Identification of methodology and metrics for the carbon reduction business case of circular computing
3StepIT is an international technology leasing and management company, with more than 3,000 customers across all business sectors, which has more than 2.2 million assets under management.
With a strong and resilient model, already at the heart of the circular economy, we partnered with 3StepIT to deliver clear and compelling strategic assessment, materiality assessment and narrative to accelerate and drive their sustainability performance.
Working with teams from across the business, we developed detailed 5-year roadmaps to deliver against the company’s sustainability vision and goals in innovation, carbon management, waste and direct impact management and leadership in sustainable IT.
Intersnack Procurement – Buying into the Future. Creating a 5-year strategy for sustainable sourcing
Outcomes
- Secured preferred supplier status
- Significant cost reductions across the value chain
- Development of a Sustainability Charter, followed by 5-year sustainability strategy and delivery plans
Intersnack Group is one of Europe’s largest snack firms, sourcing products from across the world. Their procurement company undertakes sourcing for the wider Group and has the lead responsibility for the organisation’s value chain.
We partnered with Intersnack Procurement to develop and co-create an ambitious 5-year vision and strategy to deliver sustainable sourcing across the organisation. Working hand in hand with Intersnack, our work included the development of strategic goals and targets and providing detailed roadmaps for the sustainability of their products.
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Elopak AS – Developing 10-year Future-Proof Strategy
Outcomes
- Transformational pathway for products and processes
- Able to communicate ambitions with customers and internal stakeholders
- Attracting investment and talent
Elopak is a global packaging firm with a strong position in European and Pan-American markets. They wanted to build upon their existing track record in reducing the carbon footprint of their products and processes to create a clear transformational ambition for sustainability.
Our independent advice, guidance and strategic support led to the co-development of a ground-breaking, 10-year vision and strategy for continuing Elopak’s successful sustainability journey.
Becker Underwood – developing the world’s first business Net-Positive Strategy
Outcomes
- A cohesive global approach to Net Positive excellence
- Clear steps and guidance for alignment and performance
- Sector leadership
Now a recognised leading-edge approach, our work with Becker Underwood helped to produce the world’s first private sector Net-Positive Strategy. Using our systematic and in-depth methodology we engaged teams across the business to assess their performance and deliver clear, ambitious corporate goals. Working closely with Becker Underwood, Terrafiniti provided strategic consultancy support for over 2 years to help develop a Net-Positive sustainability vision and sustainability strategy.
Smiths Group – improving stakeholder communications with a CSR reporting strategy
Outcomes
- Improved transparency of sustainable performance, measurements, and reporting
- Greater engagement with stakeholders
- Clarity on reporting and disclosure pathway
A FTSE100 company and a world leader in the practical application of advanced technologies, Smiths Group wanted an independent perspective on their approach to responsible CSR management and reporting. Following a review of their current reporting, we provided a clear pathway for developing and improving their approach based on best practice to clearly demonstrate their alignment of responsible business and commercial objectives. We provided strategic assessment, guidance and recommendations for the development of Smith’s Group CSR reporting.
Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability – creating a vision for sustainability
Outcomes
- Building engaged, empowered, and upskilled teams
- Aligning environmental performance with charitable objectives
- Engagement with stakeholders
Terrafiniti supported the Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability to develop its approach to environmental and sustainability management and performance. Following a deep dive into current practices and performance, our work involved training staff and working in partnership to develop a forward-thinking environmental policy for this national medical charity helping people affected by brain injury.
World Economic Forum –creating engagement at global risk manager’s network for sustainability
Outcomes
- A greater understanding of the latest trends and guidance for governance
- Market insight and positioning
- A clear picture of where and how to play
Terrafiniti provided research on sustainability trends, recommendations on best practices, governance, and strategic support services to the World Economic Forum to support the development of a global risk manager’s network for sustainability.
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