Client services
We provide support to Canada’s emerging sustainability leaders
Quinn & Partners works with Canada’s emerging sustainability leaders to advise on and support the business integration of corporate sustainability.
Corporate sustainability, sometimes described in terms of triple-bottom-line, green business, corporate (social) responsibility, corporate responsibility and citizenship, is a new business paradigm that enhances business strategy and management to include environmental, human and societal objectives together with the traditional singular financial focus.
Financial market research increasingly correlates superior long-term stock performance with sustainability progressiveness. That means that organizations that integrate sustainability into their business processes offer shareholders increased returns and lower risk. Investors see strong sustainability approaches as a proxy for “good management”.
In embedding corporate sustainability, we offer the following services:
Strategy
• Sustainability assessment in corporate strategy and risk management
• Materiality analysis
• Design and roll-out of sustainability strategy and programs
• Development of key performance indicators
• Sustainability governance at the company and board level
Implementation
• Policy and procedures development
• Management processes, role definition and training
• Target setting
• Sustainability measurement and information systems
• Carbon and climate change management
• Employee, customer and supplier engagement
Audit
• Benchmarking of environmental, social and governance (ESG) initiatives against standards and best practice
• ESG due diligence services for private equity investors
• Audit-readiness
• Third-party verification of sustainability data and performance measurement
• Sustainability information systems reliability
Communications
• Performance scorecards
• Internal communications
• Sustainability reporting: financial disclosures and standards, including SASB, TFCD, GRI, CDP
• Effective responses to investor disclosure requests such as PRI, CDP, GRESB and DJSI
• Community and regulatory engagement