The Business of Sustainability
Empowering Responsible Growth Through Governance and Purposeful Communication
Practical solutions to take your Corporate Responsibility Programs to the next level.
The primary focus of any sustainability activity is to safeguard a company’s longevity and profitability, while increasing competitiveness, brand reputation, stakeholder confidence, and value creation in the market. JBE’s analytical and data-driven approach to sustainability allows us to ground strategy setting and decision-making into tangible solutions based on measurable baselines. We keep a pulse on market trends and have a broad set of team member experiences that offer unique and creative perspectives. We design and execute projects with the proper balance of these end-goals in mind.
Unlock the power of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) with our expert consulting services!
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Governance is the backbone to performance, productivity, risk management, and programmatic assurance. We offer a variety of services with one goal: the implementation of sustainable development principles throughout your organization by establishing roles with responsibilities and information pathways with established data controls that will help you govern ESG data and associated disclosures in a way that can meet third-party assurance reviews.
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Tackling your supply chain can be one of the most daunting tasks within a sustainability program. We offer dedicated staff support, development of supplier code of conduct policies, RFP selection criteria, scorecard development, engagement support, policy and statement drafting, public communications support, and more. From decarbonization strategies to identifying and managing potential human rights issues, we have expertise to help form strategic supplier programming.
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The myriad of ESG frameworks and ESG Rating Programs can feel overwhelming when you are seeking to establish a sustainability program. Our team of experts can help navigate you through the basics of each disclosure program, review scoring metrics (if applicable), and help you prioritize the disclosure options that are most strategic to your business by balancing your organization’s goals and culture, time, cost, and brand reputation.
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Conducting benchmarking is a critical step in understanding how your peers and competitors publicly measure their ESG successes. Equally important is determining how your strategy aligns with key investors. Let our team help with your stakeholder benchmarking.
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Our team can assist in setting internal KPIs, goals, and targets in multiple areas including: carbon including Science Based Targets (SBT); supply chain, pay gap; diversity, equity & inclusion (DEI); emissions intensity; and more.
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Building upon your existing GHG inventory, we can help develop net decarbonization roadmaps to help your organization transition to a net-zero or carbon neutral world. Our customized solutions will allow you to visualize scenario analysis to evaluate potential changes to your operations as well as project future emissions.
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Stakeholders are increasingly placing pressure on comprehensive ESG disclosures that are reliable, transparent, accurate, and verifiable. Whether this is your first year disclosing data or you’re seeking third party assurance of ESG information for the first time, our team can help prepare your data and records for both internal audits and/or third-party validation.
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Our team’s core foundation includes regulatory analysis as many of our staff’s technical experience includes years of implementing compliance assurance programs. Leveraging that skillset coupled with innovation of our sustainability experts, we are equipped to conduct applicability reviews, gap assessments, and implementation of appropriate disclosures for the increasing sustainability and climate-related regulations being proposed globally (including U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, State of California, and the complex suite of regulations being implemented under the E.U.’s Green New Deal).
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Our team includes experts in managing large, complex datasets and evolving those datasets into customized solutions that meet you where you are in your climate strategy today as well as help you visualize tomorrow.
“Stakeholders view ESG as business-critical information of how your company interacts with people and the environment. Having strategic solutions that are well defined, measurable, and governed properly can help a sustainability professional create long term value for their business.”
