Sustainability Advisory Services

Delivering Value Through Sustainability Management Services

Sustainability reporting is the public disclosure of an organization’s sustainability strategy, commitments and performance on the issues of greatest importance to its stakeholders. Sustainability management is the integrated management of economic, environmental and social performance for the purpose of creating maximum value for all key stakeholders. It aims to:

Enhance business strategy through an improved understanding of the strategic implications of increasingly material social, economic, and environmental trends
Demonstrate performance and accountability on issues of greatest importance to each stakeholder group, and foster loyalty, collaboration and co-‐innovation with stakeholders
Offer insights for sustainability-‐oriented product and service innovation
Generate significant financial and reputational gains and heightened competitiveness

Sustainability Excellence's Advisory team works with the region's leading companies to help them lead, innovate, and outperform. Sustainability Excellence offers a full range of sustainability management and reporting services, including:

Developing Sustainability strategies; policies, procedures, and management systems
Sustainability reporting, integrated reporting, and online reporting
Sustainability performance benchmarking to leverage competiveness and opportunities
Online sustainability performance capture, tracking and benchmarking systems
Training in Sustainability Reporting, Materiality Assessment, Stakeholder Engagement
Sustainable procurement and integrating sustainability into the supply chain
Carbon and water footprint studies, life cycle analysis, and full value accounting
Community investment and social investment strategy and programs
Social Return on Investment (SROI) Analysis

Spotlight on: sustainability reporting services

Sustainability Excellence is the leading provider of sustainability reporting services in the Arab region.

Of the more than 85 companies, governments and other organisations that have undertaken sustainability reporting in the region, nearly half are current or previous clients of Sustainability Excellence. This includes the first company, the first government entity, and the first non-profit to adopt sustainability reporting in the region using the leading international Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) guidelines.

We are the GRI’s “Data Partner” for the region and one of only ten GRI “Community Leader” partners worldwide. We officially launched the G4 version of the guidelines for the Arab region, and led the translation of the G4 guidelines into Arabic. We track the sustainability reporting of every reporting organisation in the region, allowing for instant benchmarking of hundreds of data points on dozens of the most critical sustainability performance indicators.

Our clients continuously set new standards for quality and innovation in sustainability reporting in the region. In addition to earning even greater respect and trust of their most critical stakeholders, they also frequently win the top national and regional awards for sustainability reporting.

Our sustainability reporting services include:

Full sustainability reports
Summary sustainability reports
“Integrated” reports (combination of annual report and sustainability report)
Online reporting
Support for report launches
Tie-in of sustainability reporting to ongoing social media messaging and corporate communications

Our sustainability reporting includes establishing or building upon a sustainability framework that guides not only sustainability reporting but overall sustainability strategy and management, performance benchmarking for key performance indicators, capacity building and training of an internal sustainability team, and other benefits that go well beyond sustainability reporting. Sustainability reporting is ultimately meant to help enhance risk and opportunity identification, drive corporate performance gains, and enhance engagement and relationships with stakeholders.

Whether you are a sustainability reporting leader, or are still assessing the business case for sustainability reporting, Sustainability Excellence can advance your efforts to the next level of excellence.