Sustainability & ESG Compliance

Building Performance within the ESG Landscape

Stakeholders are increasingly scrutinizing environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance—and looking for companies to rise to the challenge of delivering ESG improvements.

It is becoming increasingly expected, or required by law, that companies produce ESG performance reports that adhere to finance-grade standards, to satisfy corporate investors, and industry, and country governing bodies.

Yet implementing real-world models for governance is just beginning for many organizations, which is why we provide customized advisory on ESG environments for clients across Asian markets, assisting clients in developing their global strategies, together with local execution to help deliver guidance on ESG strategy through to complete ESG compliance and reporting systems.

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Our ESG Advantage

Deep Sector Capability in Asia

Rich sector experience, networks, and resources to help clients build their compliance strategy roadmaps.

Deep Compliance and IT Expertise

Our expertise in finance, internal controls, audit and accounting takes clients “beyond IT” to a more holistic ESG reporting approach.

Support for your ESG Lifecycle

As your comprehensive ESG lifecycle partner, we provide advisory, implementation, training and support via our on-the-ground experts.

How we help companies realize their sustainability goals

We help achieve alignment between your corporate goals, international standards, and effective management capabilities, tailored to specific regional contexts, covering environmental, social, and governance factors including:

Emissions Management Decarbonisation Pathways ESG Reporting Risk & Resilience Management

Taking an ERP view of carbon use at each step of your supply chain, target areas for the greatest carbon-reduction opportunities and tracking the transformation’s progress in your organization.

Develop optimized routes to review the cost efficiency of the energy and resources consumed in manufacturing and other areas and leverage new sources to create emission-free and waste-free plants.

Build plans to assess and report your greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and carbon footprint, based on GHG protocol, embodied carbon, avoided emissions, and methane tracking.

Identify and assess potentially disruptive events and changing conditions, planning for risks and opportunities posed by these long- trends, and mitigating and/or adapting from the impacts of these stressors and shocks in an efficient manner.

We help clients through each stage of their strategic ESG lifecycle

An assessment to kick-start their ESG Journey

Craft a winning ESG strategy to provide recommendations

Implement an ESG reporting system to meet regulatory requirements amd reduce carbon emissions

Data cleansing, formatting, presentation, and input query

Support for platform training and emission factors

IBM Envizi Sustainability Performance: Your journey towards net-zero

IBM Envizi ESG Suite helps clients to simplify the capture, consolidation, management and analysis of siloed Environmental, Social, Governance (ESG) data sources. This modular and comprehensive solution can help clients to:

Build Data Foundation

A single, centralized system of records that offers auditable, financial-grade sustainability data.

Streamline Reporting & Disclosure

Flexible reporting tools to meet internal and external requirements

Accelerate Decarbonization

Unlock insights to determine the fastest and most cost-effective pathway to achieve low-carbon objectives

Envizi helps:

The IBM Envizi ESG platform automates acquisition, consolidation, administration, analysis, and reporting of your environmental, social and governance (ESG) information.

  • Establish a data foundation and unified system of record with traceable, finance-grade ESG information.
  • Simplify reporting to satisfy both internal and external ESG and sustainability reporting criteria.
  • Incorporate sustainability into daily operations for internal & external stakeholders, processes, and technology.
  • Unlock insights to identify the quickest and most cost-efficient route to expedite your decarbonisation.

The world’s most comprehensive platform for ESG Data, Analytics, and Insights

Envizi manages 500+ data types and 600+ connectors, covering:

Envizi Overview

  • Reached 175 countries
  • 810k utility accounts
  • More than 216k locations connected
  • SOC2 Compliant
  • PowerBI visualization and analytics
  • IBM Maximo Application Suite®, IBM TRIRIGA Application Suite® & Environmental Intelligence Suite®

Learn more about the ESG Framework Landscape

Developing an ESG Vision and Framework for any organization

ESG reporting is now a high-stakes business imperative. But unlike financial performance reporting, which is governed by clear expectations on format and content, the world of ESG reporting can be fragmented and confusing. ...There’s a multitude of frameworks, each with its own requirements and supporting evidence, requiring complex calculations based on data that exists in different areas of your business. If this is a challenge you’re facing, we believe you might like to explore this in-depth e-Book to learn about:
  • Guidelines to assist with ESG reporting
  • The ESG framework landscape
  • Proposed approaches to take when selecting ESG frameworks
  • Know how the future of ESG reporting is shaping up
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The Case for ESG

Sustainability teams are constantly asking themselves: “how can we standardize and streamline ESG reporting? What's the best way to reduce effort with rigorous data-driven processes?”...When Downer – a major player in the engineering and infrastructure sector – set an ambitious decarbonization strategy, they had similar questions. The IBM Envizi ESG Suite made it possible for Downer to create a strong data foundation, which helped them set Science-Based Targets and report performance more accurately, faster and with leaner resource. Read this case study to learn how Downer relies on IBM Envizi to capture and manage ESG metrics—energy consumption, waste, greenhouse gas generated—to deliver on its sustainability goals, along with reliable emissions accounting to support disclosures.
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Why we chose Envizi by IBM

We recognize that it is a significant challenge for our corporate and institutional clients to package up their ESG-related data across the organization for internal and external reporting requirements. ... Managing a higher number of ESG disclosures and greater numbers of stakeholders involved, in an increasing number of locations around the world, is challenging, even if they have a solid ESG data foundation already in place. IBM Envizi ESG Suite can help to streamline ESG data management and reporting. IBM Envizi allows you to access all ESG performance data and maintain an emissions factor engine in a single, integrated platform. You can easily report to multiple frameworks such as SASB, GRI, TCFD, using this dataset and have a single repository of information.The Green Quadrant report from Verdantix, provides a fact-based comparison of prominent carbon management software vendors. This assessment highlights the reasons why IBM had achieved the highest cumulative score for enterprise carbon management software.
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Unlocking the ASEAN-6 | ESG Transition Overview 2024

As Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) practices evolve, businesses in Southeast Asia face complex regulatory landscapes. Staying compliant with ESG standards across ASEAN is now essential to remain competitive...

The ASEAN Exchanges—including Bursa Malaysia, Indonesia Stock Exchange, and Singapore Exchange—are collaborating to promote sustainable investments and enhance market appeal. This joint effort is driving new sustainability initiatives and broadening investment opportunities across the region.

To help businesses navigate these changes, our publication "Unlocking the ASEAN-6 | ESG Transition Overview 2024" provides comprehensive insights into the latest reporting requirements for six key ASEAN economies. The guide helps investors ensure compliance and maximize the value of ESG disclosures.
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Contact our Experts

Since its establishment in 1992, Dezan Shira & Associates has become one of Asia's most versatile consultancies with more than 600 lawyers, accountants, auditors, HR professionals, business intelligence and technology experts, delivering fully integrated services from more than 35 global offices. Our ESG compliance and sustainability leadership team:

Jennifer Halim
Manager, International Business Advisory
David Stepat
Country Director
Pritesh Samuel
Head of Business Intelligence
Amanda Lam
Consultant, International Business Advisory
Riccardo Benussi
Partner
Marco Förster
Director, ASEAN
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