Sustainability Roadmap Planning

Sustainability Strategy Consulting Sustainability Roadmap Planning

With limited resources and tightening regulatory requirements, global geopolitical and climate change risks have intensified. In the process of strategic development, from the perspective of sustainable development, corporates can not only respond to challenges and risks more effectively, but also improve efficiency, enhance innovation and create long-term value.

Manage Risks, Create Value：

Today's increasing demands on sustainable products and services, good corporate governance and corporate social responsibility not only bring risks to a company's reputation and revenue but also put forward higher requirements for the long-term development of the company. In addition to meeting compliance requirements, developing a sustainability strategy can better help companies create value and identify new opportunities. A sustainability strategy can not only help with market entry a market growth, but also reduce costs, improve efficiency and bring a higher return on capital.

Develop Corporate Sustainability Strategies：

Developing a sustainable development strategy requires integrated, collaborative planning. Corporates can fully consider the opinions of stakeholders, industry trends and their operational characteristics, and summarize key strategic areas. After fully analyzing the required resources, corporates can formulate an overall sustainable development strategy, set short-, medium- and long-term goals, and strengthen the effective linkage between sustainable development and corporate strategy.

  • Narrow down key strategic focus areas, by considering corporate visions and ESG issues
  • Quantitative or directional goal setting, based on ESG rating, industrial and the company's characteristics
  • Determine sustainability roadmap integrated in the corporate strategy and ESG governance framework
  • Specify key strategic areas and set actionable short-, mid- and long-term goals


Sustainability Strategy: Roadmap Planning：

Based on the corporate sustainability roadmap, CECEPEC help companies in implementing sustainability-related work plans, which are assigned to functional departments and business levels in the form of targets and indicators to facilitate the realization of top-level sustainability strategies. Services related to the implementation of the action plan include but are not limited to：


Step 1: Identify major strategic areas to clarify scopes and boundaries

  • Select material sustainability area focuses through ESG risk analysis/materiality assessment
  • Fully understand the current performance via gap analysis for target setting

Step 2 Benchmarking, goal setting and timeline planning

  • Determine base year for meaningful and consistent comparisons
  • Discuss with management to set specific and achievable goals, with a feasible time frame

Step 3: Integrate sustainability roadmap into corporate strategy

  • Segment objectives and plans and fully strategize the sustainability roadmap
  • Integrate roadmap planning into corporate strategy and ESG governance system

Step 4: Coordinate strategic planning and empower implementation

  • Set short-, mid- and long-term goals and review policies for a detailed, actionable planning
  • Provide sustainability training and necessary resources (e.g. policies, talent, equipment, etc.).


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