ESG strategy

We help leaders and sustainability teamsget to the nub of what matters fortheir business and act – strategically and pragmatically.

ESG Strategy

Want to stop jumping through hoops and start driving value from ESG? We marry realism with an ambition for a better economy.

Perigon’s founding focus was bringing together corporate strategy and sustainability, so ESG runs absolutely core to what we do.

Although the world has been fickle about ESG over the last 5 years, we have held onto our simple belief: business has a key role in reshaping our economy to one that can sustain future generations…if only they can cut out the noise around ESG and focus on what really matters most …and those that embrace that role will build a fundamental long-term advantage.

We are not technical or risk experts in this space. The value we add is in building an evidence base of what actually matters, giving the businesses the confidence and language to focus on this (and withstand stakeholder pressures to do more), and embedding these priorities into the core business strategy. Some of what we do, of course, strays into carbon accounting and regulatory reporting, but always with a pragmatic, holistic lens.

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ESG strategy

Understand

impacts, dependencies, risks, opportunities

Prioritise

focus on what matters most

Embed

make it inseparable from the corestrategy

Dare

to be different, to rewire the economy

Our Services

Balanced scorecard

Targets and performance metrics to stay on track and spot when to pivot

Triple materiality

Basing your strategy on a 3 lens view (economic, social, environmental) of what matters most

Pre-mortem

It’s 2035 and your business is dead – what killed it?

Strategy communiacation

Building buy-in and advocacy with stakeholders

Value Case

Pre-sale assessment and value case build (best done >18 months out)

Due Dilligence

Buyside DD and prioritised risks/opportunities

GHG emissions

Measurement and target setting grounded in real-world threats, opportunities and constraints

B corp

Support through the B Corp certification process

If you’re in UK financial services, visit our Bank Barometer site – a comprehensive review of what the industry is doing in terms of sustainability reporting and business strategy.

Benefits

Lots of what people call ESG is non-strategic noise. Get it right, though, and it will underpin your value case and competitive moats

Cost Benefit

Stop spending on things that will never move the dial, frameworks that are for show, and pet projects. Make every pound count by directing it to what makes the biggest difference.

Greater Resilience

Identify hidden risks to your business model, prepare for multiple plausible climate scenarios, and pre-empt policy and compliance shifts.

Revenue/value opportunities

Lift the guardrails of today’s (outdated) economic models and identify growth opportunities in the economy we’re building towards.

Advocacy

Demonstrate confidence and conviction in doing what matters most, building a reputation for long-termism, sustainable profits and foresight.