Services

Why choose us?

SustainOpp is an advisory firm dedicated to guiding clients in addressing complex ESG data, reporting and strategy-related risks and challenges. We understand that a successful ESG transformation should be genuine, science-based, data-driven, and aligned with the organisations overarching strategy.


OUR APPROACH


What sets us apart

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Bespoke Solutions

Recognising that every client is different, we craft bespoke strategies, ensuring they align with both industry standards and our clients’ individual sustainability objectives and vision.

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Comprehensive Guidance

From understanding the baselines and  initial challenges to executing a tailored strategy, we are by your side every step of the way, ensuring that ESG and sustainability are seamlessly integrated into your operations.

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Dedication to Excellence

With a finger on the pulse of the industry, we pride ourselves on staying ahead of industry trends, constantly evolving and adapting, ensuring our clients receive the very best in tools, data-driven insights and advisory services.

Some of our services

ESG & Sustainability Reporting Gap Assessments

Utilising our cutting-edge diagnostic tool, we empower clients to assess their ESG performance against recognised industry benchmarks, best practices, and pivotal regulatory mandates such as the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) and International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) guidelines. Our analysis highlights both commendable achievements and vital areas necessitating enhancement, ensuring compliance with the dynamic regulatory landscape and alignment with market anticipations.

Regulatory & Compliance Advisory

We offer expert guidance in deciphering and adeptly maneuvering the intricate, ever-changing regulatory framework surrounding ESG and sustainability, ensuring seamless compliance and strategic foresight.

ESG Ratings Advisory

Navigating ESG ratings can be complex, given the diverse, proprietary methodologies employed by individual rating agencies. At SustainOpp, our seasoned ESG Ratings team is committed to assisting you in enhancing your ESG ratings through data-driven analysis, benchmarking, and engagement. We pride ourselves in offering bespoke solutions that allow firms like yours to discern the fragmented and opaque ESG ratings for your stakeholders, streamline an efficient ESG data validation system, and pinpoint potential improvements in ESG disclosures and cost of capital.

Drawing from extensive engagement with clients across Europe, APAC and North America, SustainOpp has crafted a multi-phased ESG Ratings assistance program tailored for corporate leadership, designed to:

  1. Illuminate the intricate landscape of the ESG Ratings sphere and develop communication strategies.
  2. Ensure that Rating Agencies’ portrayals authentically mirror your ESG achievements, broader firm-wide strategies and external communication.
  3. Provide pragmatic insights to continually elevate your ESG scores and index presence.
Sustainability Program Planning

Craft a comprehensive corporate sustainability initiative, outlining actionable steps and executing suggestions based on their significance, expense, effort, and duration.

ESG & Climate Due Diligence and Transaction Advisory

Integrate climate and ESG insights to strengthen your transaction advisory and investment due diligence process. 

ESG Integration and other investment philosophies

We specialise in guiding clients to adeptly embed ESG factors into their investment landscape—spanning strategies, portfolios, and asset classes—to realise superior risk-adjusted returns and outperform benchmarks. Our extensive expertise encompasses diverse, multi-factor investment philosophies such as exclusionary screening, norms-based approaches, values-driven, impact investing, and thematic strategies.

Impact Assessments

Harnessing state-of-the-art ESG factors and metrics, we precisely gauge the tangible impact of investment and financial externalities, ensuring full alignment with the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the rigorous criteria of regulatory Do No Significant Harm (DNSH) evaluations.


Educational Workshops 

Empowering our clients with knowledge through seminars, training, and workshops on the latest trends, tools, and best practices in ESG & sustainable finance, investing and reporting.

TESTIMONIALS


“From our very first consultation, it was evident that SustainOpp brought a fresh perspective, grounded in extensive experience and innovative thinking. One of the most commendable aspects of their service was the bespoke nature of their ESG Data solutions, which allowed us to apply a more robust exclusionary screening process to sectors and industries we are obligated to avoid.”

Chief Investment Officer, Sydney

“The SustainOpp team adeptly navigated us through the intricacies of the sustainable debt market. Their grasp on topics such as ESG issuance premiums, secondary market liquidity, and credit rating implications was profound and, more importantly, actionable for our business scenario. Their bespoke solutions, rooted in rigorous data analysis and market trends, equipped us to tap into a sustainable debt market with a fortified value proposition.”

Head of Treasury, Liquidity & Funding, Singapore

“Beyond mere advisory, their team collaborated with us in crafting a granular roadmap, integrating ESG factors into our capital structure and aligning our strategies with industry benchmarks. Their guidance has been pivotal in steering our foray into sustainable business practices, ensuring both regulatory compliance and market competitiveness.

Head of Sustainability (EMEA), Dublin

“As a boutique investment manager, transitioning towards more sustainable practices and managing stakeholder expectations was initially overwhelming. However, the team at SustainOpp guided us and demystified complex concepts, across both compliance and voluntary reporting, with pragmatic steps that resonated with our corporate values.”
Chief Financial Officer, Frankfurt
It’s not often that I feel compelled to pen down a testimonial, but the exceptional service provided by SustainOpp truly deserves recognition. Every interaction with their team was  characterised by professionalism, patience, and a genuine commitment to driving positive change in assisting with our Greenwashing risk review. They didn’t just present us with generic tools; they crafted solutions tailored to our investment strategies, ensuring both feasibility and impact.
Chief Risk Officer, New York
SustainOpp’s tailored recommendations not only provided clarity on our sustainability roadmap but also unlocked numerous climate-related opportunities we hadn’t considered. It’s evident that their methodologies and approach are rooted in strong research and analysis, which made a lasting impact on our inaugural sustainability reports.
Head of Sustainability, London