Brett Reimers
Associate Director
The world is facing extreme environmental change and incidents that have a negative effect on business and the communities in which they operate. Climate change impacts such as increases in temperature, rising sea levels and loss of biodiversity are combining with adjacent anthropogenic impacts, including air, land and water pollution. Amongst other impacts that affect the world, these are starting to take precedence in the boardroom and strategy sessions worldwide.
With the introduction of regulations such as carbon tax in South Africa, the Corporate Sustainability Disclosure Standards (CSRD) in Europe and the evolution of the IFRS Sustainability Disclosure Standards internationally, we are seeing top emitters finding ways to mitigate their impact and finding alternative ways to offset their emissions. Incorporating environmental sustainability into strategic and operational plans is imperative for business resilience - and BDO can help you with that.
BDO’s sustainability team are specialists in climate change, environmental and carbon management and can assist you in integrating environmental strategies into your business via the development of relevant policies, strategies, frameworks and, ultimately, reporting. We can also assist with assurance of your non-financial information.
Building your business to be sustainably focused not only minimises your negative environmental and social impact, it can also assist in growing your business by identifying opportunities for innovation and collaboration in areas that will ensure the future sustainability of your business. We can also ensure your business is ready for any legislative changes that arise in the future.
These are our services:
Environmental services
- Carbon tax liability assessment
- Carbon strategies and footprint
- Assurance of non-financial information: ISAE 3000 or A1000 standards
- Environmental strategy and framework development
- Board induction training and director’s duties training
- Sustainability framework compilation
- Materiality assessment workshops
- Sustainability policy development
- Sustainability strategy development
- Sustainability roadmaps
- Sustainability training at board and management level
- Non-financial data management frameworks
- Outsourced ESG function
- ESG due diligence assessments.
Climate change services
- Greenhouse gas inventories (carbon footprinting)
- Climate risk assessments for physical and transitional risks
- Decarbonisation planning
- Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) reporting
- International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) sustainability disclosures S1 and S2
- Climate mitigation plans
- Climate adaptation plans
- Climate change training at board and management level.