Envirosustain | ESG Report 2022/23

GOVERNANCE

The headlines from our Governance achievements in 2022/23

In 2022, we opened our new office in Kassel and expanded the team. This will enable us to provide our customers with more flexible and efficient support in the future.

Demand for our services relating to sustainable buildings has continued to rise. We have therefore expanded our services to include ESG strategy consulting in the real estate industry and added decarbonization strategies to our energy consulting services

One of our goals from our ESG Report 2021 was to “contribute to greater climate protection through our business activities”. We made progress towards this goal by pushing the topic of climate neutrality further up our customers’ agendas in 2022 and by actively encouraging our customers to do more than just the minimum level of climate protection measures required.

We ran a survey of our clients: 81% rate ES at the top or in the top third of the ESG-consulting industry.

A breakdown of our services for 2023

1/ Green buidling

We have had a further strengthening of green building services, in particular BREEAM In-Use and GRESB which were in our top 3 services. We also continued to see high demand for other building certifications.

2/ Net zero carbon

The Paris Climate Agreement and the EU Green Deal call for climate neutrality by 2050, which has also increased demand from our clients for support in terms of energy efficiency and climate neutrality for their buildings. We help our clients to adapt their building stock and portfolios to the new legislation, as well as to comply with new regulatory standards, such as the creation of energy certificates in accordance with the German Building Energy Act (GEG).

3/ ESG services

We attribute the increased interest in our ESG consulting services to new regulations such as the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), the EU Taxonomy and the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR). In order to meet this interest, we have expanded our range of services to include ESG strategy consulting and strengthened the area of energy efficiency and decarbonization.

4/ Technical

Due to the current market situation, we expected a decline in technical services with a simultaneous increase in ESG services. However, project monitoring remained one of our top 3 services.

Exploring our ESG priorities:

We developed our own ESG strategy by conducting a materiality analysis with our whole team as well as with stakeholders. This helped us to identify common themes and gather valuable feedback.

The graphic below shows the combined outcome of both our internal and external materiality analysis. These will form the basis of our ESG strategy and are our areas of focus for the coming years.