Regulation &
Compliance
Our sector experts understand the unique Sustainable Business and ESG factors, risks and opportunities that currently exist and are on the horizon for each industry. From Consumer Duty in the financial industries to greenwashing and packaging regulations in the consumer industry – we tailor our approach to ensure optimal risk resilience and effective reputation management.
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SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS & ESG STRATEGY
BUSINESS TRANSFORMATION
Climate Change & Energy Transistion
Business Integrity
Ethical Conduct & Culture
Doing the right thing is not just good for business, it is good business. However, the huge amount of regulatory change and increasing public scrutiny means that doing good business is becoming more and more challenging
The volume of new regulations, proposals and the pace of legislatory change in the UK and EU makes the compliance environment ambiguous and difficult to navigate. Consumer businesses need to consider the ongoing implications of Brexit, Deposit Return Schemes (DRS), the FCA's introduction of Consumer Duty, and the EU's Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), to name just a few.
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Regulation & Compliance
How organisations are measuring their impact on the environment is continually under the spotlight, including not only the impact of their own operations but also on their end-to-end value chain. Climate change, energy transition, biodiversity, energy use and security, natural resource conservation and waste are just some of the areas that organisations need to disclose and demonstrate how they are identifying environmental risks and opportunities, now and in the future.
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Climate Change &
Energy Transition
The social licence to operate for business has never been as critical as it is today. As more and more stakeholders increasingly demand and challenge human and social capital-based sustainability efforts from business, it is now a priority for organisations to demonstrate positive societal outcomes and provide evidence that ethical conduct, purpose and a values-based culture permeates everything they do.
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Ethical Conduct
& Culture
The set of standards that is expected of a company's operations has only intensified with an increased focus on topics such as data protection and cyber security, economic crime, class actions, independent assurance and the integrity of the corporate governance framework.
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Business Integrity
Tone from the top is critical when it comes to driving change and enabling business transformation. We help leaders to develop and enhance their impact through executive education, experiential learning and development, and high impact briefings. Through the DWF Responsibility programme, we work in partnership with leadership teams to help foster a positive culture in a changing society and ensure their business is engaged effectively on its brand values and reputation, with a focus on leading ethically and working collaboratively to deliver sustainability. .
Leadership
Corporate Governance is a critical enabler of any sustainable business that acts with integrity and is built upon values-based policies, processes and procedures. We work with businesses to re-assess their corporate governance framework in light of increasing stakeholder demands for more transparency and ethical decision-making, including best practice review of policies, procedures and controls, development and enhancement of Codes of Conduct, definition and articulation of corporate purpose, and knowledge and understanding of Director's Duties.
Corporate Governance
Sectors
DWF bring a unique blend of consulting-led legal advisory skills, knowledge and practical experience. Sustainable Business and ESG consultants help to identify the business transformation required, undertake risk assessments, develop your strategy and enable effective implementation and ongoing performance management. Legal experts advise on technical corporate, regulatory, data, employment and environmental concerns, to name just a few priority areas of focus.
Consulting-led
Legal Advice
Developing a business strategy with Sustainable Business and ESG opportunities and risks hardwired into the core of your strategic priorities as a 'top down' approach is key to a positive outcome. Our risk-based approach to developing the integrated strategy is based on initially conducting a sustainability materiality assessment, which informs a proportionate and pragmatic approach to the design of your strategic sustainable priorities. This enables you to measure, assess and report on progression and implementation using a evidence and data-based approach which inspires confidence and risk-resilience.
Sustainable business &
ESG strategy
Stakeholder engagement, communications and a programmatic approach to business transformation are critical enablers of the 'bottom up' approach to change which reinforces the 'top down' strategic imperative and inspires change in the middle. We deploy a change management and transformational advisory approach to Sustainable Business & ESG, not a compliance-based approach. We work with you to empower, educate and equip your people, and key stakeholders along the value chain, to be part of a collective movement towards improvement and enhancement.
Business Transformation
