Introduction to
Sustainability

We believe that integrating sustainability into the core of your business operations and making bold strategic choices at both the corporate and daily operative levels is key to driving meaningful change. 

At Implement, we help you put climate on the strategic agenda and make bold and informed commitments to drive positive change and impact across the environmental, social and governance (ESG) arena.

A double materiality assessment is not only becoming a legal requirement under the EU’s Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) but is also essential for setting the direction of sustainability. It helps you prioritise the economic, environmental, social and governance issues that are most relevant to your business. 

We use a proven five-step approach that focuses on the interactive engagement of internal and external stakeholders, ensuring that the assessment provides an opportunity for dialogue on sustainability management, raises awareness of sustainability and enables strategic decision-making.

In times of high uncertainty, analysing relevant climate scenarios can open our eyes and guide decision-making on climate risks. Our climate scenario analysis service offers a detailed assessment of your organisation’s exposure to climate-related risks and opportunities. 

Our team of experts will analyse a range of possible climate scenarios, including physical and transition risks, and provide you with a comprehensive understanding of the potential impact on your business.

Climate change is just one of the drivers of the loss of biodiversity next to land use change, pollution, invasive species and resource exploitation. Developing a strategy for working with biodiversity can help you prepare for upcoming reporting requirements and meet the demands of partners and customers.

How do you lead your organisations, your suppliers, your customers and yourself in the transformation towards sustainability? By challenging your assumptions and existing paradigms, you can bring your organisation on a transformational journey. Together, we ensure that your leadership agenda can fuel a change movement in your organisation. 

As approved EcoVadis training partners, we add yet another dimension of value to our work with you, allowing us to help and create impact on another level. Download to learn more.

How can organisations communicate their sustainable activities to a wide range of stakeholders? Since the purpose often differs depending on the stakeholder, the answer to this question is not trivial. We help organisations derive the right strategy to communicate their sustainability actions.

Many organisations have sustainable strategies in place or have committed to becoming net zero. However, they often struggle with implementing these sustainability ambitions across the organisation. We help design and implement sustainable operating models that enable your organisation to anchor and effectively reach its sustainability ambitions.

Our ambition is to be the best place for the best people. We guide our clients with knowledge, support and know-how to make the move from having a “sustainability strategy” to having a truly “sustainable strategy.” We inspire organisations to dare to unleash transformational change towards a brighter future that is better for all of us. 

As approved EcoVadis training partners, we add yet another dimension of value to our work with you, allowing us to help and create impact on another level.

Carbon capture, storage and utilisation will be an essential part of achieving net zero. However, how do we get there? How do we ensure the necessary infrastructure? What is happening with regulation, and what is the value of negative emissions? These are all relevant questions that we can help you and your organisation understand the impact of.

Hydrogen and PtX are rapidly developing across different geographies and sectors. What is your role in this emerging and fast-developing industry? 

We help you understand the latest developments, ranging from strategic to regulatory insights that may have a significant impact on your projects and organisation. We help you develop your organisation, establish partnerships and increase the uptake of innovations.

E-mobility has emerged as an important strategic choice to achieve successful zero-emission transport. How will this impact your organisation? 

We help you understand the industry transition, market trends and technology developments that affect a broad range of industries and actors in the value chain. We also help you design winning strategies and identify where to play and how to win.

Enable your company to use large-scale renewables with the lowest LCOE. We support you with CAPEX procurement, contract management, risk management etc. Design, operationalise and implement your offshore wind project with our guidance. 

We work with you on a full value chain approach, including your supply chain development and BC modelling.

Power procurement has moved from an “unknown” corner of business operations to the centrepiece of corporate strategy. Is your business ready for green PPAs? Have you hedged your risks and ensured that your energy sourcing is truly green? 

We help you analyse your power consumption, design tender processes, sign PPAs and source real green energy.

Many companies are required to report under different sustainability reporting standards and frameworks. Understanding the key differences and similarities as well as the information needs of key stakeholders is essential for selecting the appropriate reporting framework and developing a targeted disclosure strategy. 

With our hands-on and interactive approach, we help you find the most efficient and effective way to keep pace with the evolving reporting landscape and meet the expectations of your key stakeholders. 

What does it take for your company to become compliant with the requirements of the EU Corporate Sustainability Disclosure Directive (CSRD) and the related European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS)? 

Using our structured five-step approach, we co-create a focused and actionable implementation plan that creates engagement and ownership in the organisation to achieve compliance.

Which ESG tool should you use for sustainability reporting? Choosing the right ESG technology is essential for effectively tackling sustainability data collection, transformation, analysis and reporting. 

With a thoughtful setup that fits your existing system landscape, you can stay on top of your sustainability data and gain insights for strategic decision-making. This enables timely responses to information requests from your key stakeholders, ensures reporting compliance and enables more evidence-based and sustainable business practices

We think of an ESG data hub as an ecosystem of people, processes, data and technology that enables ESG use cases and strategic decision-making from non-financial data. 

We help you optimise and leverage your ESG data beyond compliance by actively working to increase ESG data literacy in the company and ensure widespread use of ESG data to support sustainable business practices.

Understanding what is important and determining what ambition level to strive for can be difficult. Arguing for a selected ambition level is even harder. 

Science-based targets offer a scientifically documented approach to designing reduction targets and activities. We advise on the implications before you commit, help define your targets and design a plan for successful implementation.

Companies are increasingly met with demands from customers, legislators and investors to account for the impact of their business on sustainability. This includes not only the footprint of their own business but also their entire supply chain. And for most companies, the key challenge is to address the supply chain part, often making up 80% of their entire footprint. 

We can support your business in taking a strategic approach to decarbonisation, a prerequisite for becoming fit for the future and meeting the multiplicity of sustainability demands.

We help you develop processes and requirements for suppliers which reflect the issues and opportunities that need to be addressed to stay ahead of the competition. 

We support you in avoiding direct costs from supply chain disruption or product recalls as a consequence of non-compliance with social and environmental standards by setting the right demands and implementing an auditing process for your suppliers.

Calculating your carbon baseline is the first step towards decarbonising your business. It helps you understand the distribution of emissions and identify the most effective areas to reduce emissions, whether in transport, production or other areas you may not have considered. 

At Implement, we help companies calculate emissions based on the world’s most widely used methodology and support you in pinpointing where to start decarbonising.

Today, life cycle assessments are typically used for reporting and certification purposes. At Implement, we take LCAs a step further by creating fact-based strategic decision guidance through a holistic approach to LCAs and environmental performance transparency according to ISO 14040.

At Implement, we assist in designing decarbonisation roadmaps to achieve targets aligned with the Paris Agreement and science-based targets. 

Decarbonisation roadmaps target emissions across all business scopes, and we design a process that engages the entire organisation and your suppliers. We focus on building competencies in your organisation to continue the journey towards reaching your targets.

We support companies in their transformation from a product-oriented to a performance-oriented approach. This enables them to identify new revenue streams, differentiate themselves from competitors and at the same time leverage their sustainability potential and fully decouple profit from resource consumption.

We support you in enabling your product development process and organisation to make the right decisions to develop better and more sustainable products. We guide you through the whole product life cycle – from strategy, R&D, material selection and production to end of life. We always strive for circular solutions and avoidance of sub-optimisation

We help transform businesses into fully circular entities by exploring options for changing their fundamental business model to support a circular system. This includes changing the design, selling/leasing strategies to customers and developing business models that focus on the entire value chain and service offerings of the business.

Funding for the energy and energy-intensive sectors is growing at the national and European levels. We support companies in understanding the opportunities present in the market and the financial and non-financial value of engaging with relevant available funding.

We support companies in defining how to align funding with their organisation’s strategy and how to integrate it into the processes and ways of working. We help build a funding project portfolio that supports the strategy and maximises the effort-benefit ratio.

We support companies in maturing large-scale innovation projects, from understanding regulation and the business case, building a path to market, forming strategic partnerships to understanding socio-economic and environmental impacts.

When funding opportunities are identified, we support companies in responding to calls for proposals, including any necessary state aid documentation. We help organise efficient application processes and manage all stakeholder contributions.

We can help you with dedicated training sessions and funding-specific academies, whether you are building an internal funding office or want to equip your teams with the best knowledge on the funding landscape, maturing projects or implementing best practices in application development.