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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