Sustainability and ESG Advisory

Our team is well-equipped to perform in-depth evaluations of your current sustainability practices, identifying areas for improvement and offering strategies to enhance sustainability efforts in organizations across various sectors, including:

Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Emissions Analysis: Conducting quantitative assessments of greenhouse gas emissions to gauge their impact, providing critical data for shaping effective sustainability strategies.

Assessments of Climate-Related Physical and Transition Risks and Opportunities: Evaluating the effects of climate change on business operations to support informed decision-making and identify potential opportunities.

  • Physical Risk Assessment: Investigating the direct effects of climate change, such as extreme weather, rising sea levels, or temperature shifts, and determining how these changes may impact assets, supply chains, and operations.

  • Transition Risk Assessment: Examining the risks linked to the transition to a low-carbon economy, including regulatory shifts, market developments, technological innovations, and societal changes, and their effects on industries and business models.

Climate Scenario Analysis:
Analyzing the potential impacts of various climate change scenarios on businesses, economies, or systems, which includes:

  • Scenario Development: Creating potential future climate scenarios based on climate models, emissions pathways, and possible policy responses.

  • Impact Analysis: Assessing how each scenario may affect operations, supply chains, markets, and overall business performance, considering factors like physical risks, regulatory changes, technological developments, and consumer behavior shifts.

  • Risk and Opportunity Evaluation: Determining the risks and opportunities that each scenario presents, quantifying potential financial, operational, and reputational risks, and identifying areas where innovation or adaptation could offer advantages.

  • Strategic Planning: Using insights from the analysis to guide strategic decision-making. This may involve adjusting business models, creating new policies, or investing in new technologies to better prepare for various future outcomes.

Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) Analysis:
Assessing and reporting climate-related financial risks and opportunities based on the TCFD framework. Oasis’s TCFD services include:

  • Governance: Reviewing how an organization’s governance integrates climate-related risks and opportunities into its decision-making, strategy, and risk management processes.

  • Strategy: Evaluating the potential and actual impacts of climate-related risks and opportunities on the organization’s business, strategy, and financial planning.

  • Risk Management: Analyzing how the organization identifies, evaluates, and manages climate-related risks across its operations, supply chains, and investments.

  • Metrics and Targets: Reporting on the metrics used to track climate-related risks and opportunities, including the targets established to address these challenges.

Sustainable Finance:
Sustainable finance refers to integrating ESG factors into financial decision-making. Oasis’s sustainable finance advisory services include:

  • Investment Practices: Directing capital toward projects and companies that exhibit positive ESG performance, such as renewable energy initiatives or social impact investments.

  • Risk Assessment: Considering environmental and social risks alongside financial risks in investment decisions, including climate-related risks, resource scarcity, social impacts, and regulatory changes.

  • Impact Measurement: Monitoring and reporting the social and environmental outcomes of investments to ensure they contribute to sustainability goals.

  • Innovation and Collaboration: Supporting the development of innovative financial products and services that foster sustainability and encouraging collaboration between financial institutions, regulators, and businesses to drive sustainable practices.

Social Impact Studies:
Evaluating the broader societal impacts of a company’s operations, policies, and initiatives. Oasis’s social impact studies involve:

  • Social Factors Analysis: Assessing how a company’s activities influence social aspects like labor practices, employee well-being, diversity and inclusion, community relations, human rights, and ethical supply chain management.

  • Stakeholder Engagement: Engaging with stakeholders to understand their perspectives and concerns regarding the social impact of the company’s actions, including employees, customers, communities, and advocacy groups.

  • Impact Measurement and Reporting: Quantifying and reporting the company’s social contributions, using metrics such as employee satisfaction, community development, philanthropy, and adherence to human rights principles.

  • ESG Alignment: Ensuring that the company’s social practices align with ESG standards and contribute to sustainable and ethical business practices.

Governance Studies:
In the context of ESG, governance assessments examine how a company’s governance practices align with environmental and social considerations, alongside financial concerns. Oasis’s governance studies include:

  • Board Structure and Oversight: Reviewing the composition and structure of the board of directors to assess diversity, independence, sustainability expertise, and the board’s role in managing ESG-related risks and opportunities.

  • Executive Compensation: Evaluating whether executive pay structures support ESG goals and encourage sustainable, long-term value creation.

  • Ethical Policies and Practices: Reviewing a company’s ethical policies, including those related to compliance, anti-corruption, and whistleblowing, to ensure they align with ESG principles.

  • Transparency and Disclosure: Assessing the company’s transparency and quality of reporting on governance and ESG-related issues, including disclosures of policies, performance metrics, and governance structures to stakeholders.

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