Creating Value through Sustainability Consulting

Businesses that effectively measure and manage sustainability performance inherently stay ahead of others in the industry. Accelerating the transition to triple bottom line focused growth, VNV Advisory assists organizations, both public and private in embedding sustainability principles into the core of their business culture. Drawing on a decade of consulting experience, our integrated, system level perspectives allow clients to address sustainability issues that are most prudent to their operations, while simultaneously increasing economic, social and environmental value. Our team of consultants have sustainability expertise in various fields including agriculture, aviation, chemicals, cements, oils & hydrocarbon, information technology, mining, metals, manufacturing & real estate.

At VNV Advisory we spend time in understanding business operations, taking every organization’s unique agenda into picture whilst delivering customized solutions tailored to fit the client requirements. Our long term, innovative sustainability solutions help businesses reduce risk, improve sustainability, increase efficiency and maintain long term reputation and economic gains. Our approach to sustainability focuses on a “business-first” perspective – combining our technical expertise in various sectors with strategic expertise and increasing institutional sustainability capabilities. Our cutting-edge sustainability accounting methodologies and tools help businesses communicate EESG performance through systematic approaches.

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1. Sustainability Leadership Consulting

VNV Advisory will help organizations build and drive strategies to optimize business suitability performance and increase value. Through customized sustainability frameworks and strategies to set direction and design, organizations will be able to address social, environmental and economic issues along with focusing on issues integral to the core business strategy. Our unique sustainability interventions help companies reach their short term and long-term sustainability targets, and build accountability for sustainability performance.

2. Stakeholder Engagement & Materiality

Utilising AA1000SES Principles, VNV Advisory will help organizations in achieving sustainability objectives through stakeholder engagement-combining elements of inclusivity, materiality and responsiveness. Through internal and external stakeholder communications, VNV Advisory will develop comprehensive stakeholder engagement processes to improve organization level management, governance, strategy and planning, and reduce overall risk.

3. GRI Sustainability Reporting

As Gold Community Members to the Global Reporting Initiative, we at VNV Advisory have access to exclusive GRI training updates on current reporting guidelines. Our team of consultants are trained in both GRI G4 and GRI Standards of the GRI sustainability guidelines. VNV Advisory will assist organizations with end to end of GRI Sustainability reporting in accordance with the guidelines – from conducting materiality sessions to creating designed sustainability reports. Through GRI reporting, companies can transparently communicate their economic, social, environmental and governance performance through systematic approaches.

4. Self-Development of Sustainability Reports

VNV Advisory will assist businesses in self-creating GRI Sustainability Reports through a combination of capacity building programs and robust sustainability accounting tools. Through this, businesses will increase self-reliance in sustainability accounting, increase business knowledge on latest global disclosure reporting mechanisms, improve reporting processes and practices, and increase organizational sustainability leadership capability.

5. Social Impact Assessment

Social Impact is all the consequences of the activities of an organization on its internal and external stakeholders as well as on society in general. Assessing such impacts help the organization in reporting, communicating, fund-raising, decision-making and in bringing about social innovation.

With many years of experience in implementing social initiatives, VNV is privileged to understand the social sector holistically. Our Social Impact Assessment Services are customized to suit the needs of the customer – be it a not-for-profit enterprise, social enterprise, NGO or even CSR initiatives run by companies. It provides a comprehensive assessment of the social impact generated from social initiatives undertaken by these actors. Following the guidelines and principles laid down by Social Value UK, VNV is well-resourced to assess the Social Return on Investment (SROI) of specific projects, which serves as a tangible tool for organizations to measure the social impact generated.

6. Environmental Footprint

VNV Advisory’s Environmental Footprint Evaluation services help businesses in monitoring, measuring, analysing, and identifying environmental impact across various areas – materials, energy, carbon, water, waste and biodiversity. Through hotspot assessments, VNV Advisory will help businesses identify impact intensive processes and various strategies that could be implemented to reduce and offset the overall environmental impact.

7. Climate Change and Carbon Management

Through our comprehensive carbon management, monitoring and accounting services, VNV Advisory will help organizations analyse carbon and climate change impact by designing creative solutions to help organizations achieve long term resilience and competitive advantage.

8. Carbon Disclosure Project

VNV Advisory will assist businesses in disclosing environmental impacts in accordance with CDP across various areas – climate change, forests, water and supply chain. Through CDP reporting, organizations can monitor, analyse, and report environmental performance on a globally recognized platform. CDP is a non-profit that runs the global disclosure system for investors, companies, cities, states, and regions to manage their environmental impacts.

9. Business Responsibility Reporting

VNV Advisory’s Business Responsibility Reporting services are pursuant to a notification of Securities and Exchange Board of India (Listing Obligations and Disclosure Requirements) Regulations, 2015 (“Listing Regulations”), disclosing on responsible business practices in accordance with the National Voluntary Guidelines (NVGs).

10. SDG Reporting

The Sustainable Development Goals are the blueprint in achieving a better and more sustainable future for all. They address the global challenges related to poverty, inequality, climate, environmental degradation, prosperity, and peace and justice. VNV Advisory will develop sustainability frameworks in order to help organizations align with SDGs. Our SDG reporting services include development of SDG oriented strategies and reporting on the impact of current organizational efforts in addressing SDGs.

11. CSR Reporting

Through VNV Advisory’s CSR Reporting services, businesses can generate comprehensive reports delineating organizational level strategies & policies, CSR frameworks, CSR projects, and project impact. Our services include monitoring, measuring and analysing the impact of organizational CSR to assess efficiency.

12. Life Cycle Assessment

VNV Advisory’s Life Cycle Assessment Services analyse the environmental aspects and potential impacts along the life cycle of a product using ISO 14040 and ISO 14044 Standards. LCA helps organizations in understanding the product and process life cycle impacts by accounting for parameters like materials, emissions, water and waste. Inputs and outputs are looked at each stage of the life cycle, in a cradle to grave, cradle to gate, or gate to gate approach. VNV Advisory uses internationally recognized standards and follows globally accepted methodologies to conduct the LCA.

13. Supplier Sustainability Assessment

VNV Advisory’s Supplier Sustainability Assessment Services include evaluating suppliers against industry standards through quantitative and qualitative sustainability assessments using comprehensive supplier assessment protocols. Our services include the development of supplier sustainability assessment tools covering EESG principles tailored to meet business requirements.

14. Sustainability Auditing

VNV Advisory will provide sustainability auditing support to organizations through recognized third-party auditors. Auditing services include – Sustainability Reporting Auditing (Core & Comprehensive), AA1000SES, Carbon Auditing, ISO 14064, Water Footprint Auditing etc.

“With more than 10 years of global experience in the sustainability arena, we work with organisations to monitor, measure, manage and implement sustainability strategies for long term value creation”