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About Sustainability Excellence

Sustainability Excellence and its associated businesses is a recognized leader in sustainability advisory services, sustainability reporting, and ESG assessment services in the Arab region. We combine extensive regional expertise and experience with a compelling international track record. We excel in helping regional companies achieve sustainability leadership through effective strategies and immediate performance gains.

Built on Global Leadership

Sustainability Excellence knows what it takes to best in the world. Prior to founding Sustainability Excellence, four of President Darin Rovere’s international clients ranked Number One in the world for sustainability for their sector, as ranked by prestigious ratings such as the Dow Jones Sustainability Index. Three of these clients were major players in the global energy and manufacturing sectors.

  • Sustainability Excellence maintains a strong partnership with the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), the world’s leading guidelines for sustainability reporting. We have worked together to effectively increase the adoption of sustainability practice in the Middle East. We are an Organizational Stakeholder, Community Leader, and Official GRI Data Partner with GRI.

  • We are also a Professional Services Partner, and one of the only seven regional signatories, of the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment (UNPRI), a leading international initiative for management of sustainability and ESG issues in the financial sector. 

Pioneering Sustainability in the Arab World

Sustainability Excellence is a regional sustainability  pioneer and leader.

  • Past and present clients represent nearly half of all sustainability reporters in the Arab region that use international standards (i.e. Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Guidelines and sector supplements)..

  • We worked with the first company, government agency and non-profit organisation in the region to develop sustainability reports and strategies.

  • We delivered sustainability services for more than 50 regional companies. Clients include many of the region’s largest firms. We have worked across more than 15 sectors in 8 countries.

  • We worked with seven of the highest levels of government to develop major national sustainability initiatives, including General Secretariat of the Executive Council in Abu Dhabi and the 34 government entities it oversees; the Qatar Petroleum HSE Regulations and Enforcement Directorate; and the Abu Dhabi Sustainability Group.

  • We continuously monitor the sustainability performance of over 400 companies in the region across 180 different indicators.

  • We are regional thought leaders, having created the Arab Responsible Competitiveness Index launched at the regional World Economic Forum; the ‘Sustainability Opportunities and Challenges in Abu Dhabi Report 2010’ for the General Secretariat of the Executive Council of Abu Dhabi; and the ‘State of Sustainable Investments in the MENA Region Report 2011’ for the International Finance Corporation (IFC).

 

Incubator for Regional Sustainability Opportunities

Sustainability Excellence has been at the forefront of sustainability initiatives in the region since its inception.

Currently, the company is transforming the sustainability landscape and growing businesses to provide:

  • Companies, governments and organizations with world-class sustainability management and reporting.

  • Investors and asset managers with tools and bundles to compare and assess Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) factors in investments.

  • Data platforms for organizations, and the public (www.arabsustainability.com), to access, store, and compare sustainability performance data to make informed decisions.

Darin Rovere
Founder and President

Darin Rovere leads a team of highly-experienced professionals at the helm of Sustainability Excellence.  Darin himself is an internationally and regionally recognized expert in sustainability management and reporting. Prior to moving to the Middle East and Gulf region, four of Darin’s international clients ranked #1 in the world for sustainability in their sector.

 

Upon establishing Sustainability Excellence, Darin has engaged and worked with the first company, first government entity, and first non-profit organisations to adopt sustainability management. He has worked with the first major companies to adopt sustainability reporting in Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Jordan, and the Palestinian Territories.

 

He has helped foster multi-stakeholder initiatives including the Abu Dhabi Sustainability Group, and has co-authored many of the region’s groundbreaking reports on sustainability and competitiveness, including sustainability-screened investing. He has also led pioneering projects at the highest levels of leadership including with the General Secretariat of the Executive Council of Abu Dhabi.

 

Darin is well known especially for his effectiveness in engaging executive teams on the business case for sustainability, and is a sought-after speaker (having been a guest speaker in more than 25 countries) and trainer. Darin has served on numerous boards, advisory committees and awards panels, and was an active contributor to the early versions of several international sustainability-related standards including the Global Reporting Initiative.

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