Environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors are no longer a ‘nice to have’ for companies. In today’s regulatory and cultural environment, if you fail to meet growing ESG-related expectations and regulations, you will risk alienating your investors, employees and customers, and could face fines and lasting reputational damage.
Properly aligning your business to ESG factors will not only help you promote a more just and sustainable economy but will also help you to mitigate risk and get an edge on the competition.
Robust reporting is essential for success
Understanding how your business aligns to growing ESG regulations is now business critical. However keeping up to date with the evolving regulatory environment can be confusing and represent a significant administrative burden. That’s why establishing and implementing a robust ESG data management and reporting process is essential for maintaining compliance and enabling you to identify real opportunities to improve performance across your company.
Wherever you are on your sustainability journey our solutions can be tailored to meet your needs. If you’re just starting out and need help understanding your ESG position and reporting requirements – or if you already have clearly defined sustainability or net zero carbon goals but need support gathering and reporting the right data – our solutions can help.
We make managing ESG risk and compliance easier
We understand that collecting and evaluating ESG data from operations across your business can be time consuming and challenging, particularly if you operate across multiple countries and need to collect new and difficult data sets. We can help you conquer that challenge. Our comprehensive solutions support you to collect data, and then evaluate and report your performance against regulatory frameworks such as the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI), your own KPIs and many other ESG regulatory standards.
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Our solutions
Our ESG solutions combine Vistra’s expert administrative services and cutting-edge technology to support you seamlessly integrate the management of your ESG data. Our cloud-based technology is modular and customisable, and we will work with you to make sure that is tailored to your needs.
Understand your ESG position and reporting requirements
Our smart surveys enable qualitative data collection and analysis to inform regulatory framework reporting:
– Bespoke surveys mirror regulatory frameworks to help you understand your current ESG position and determine the data sets you need to comply.
– Support initial ESG baselining and KPIs.
– Materiality assessments help you to identify the most important ESG factors for your business.
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Data management, analysis, and reporting
Our administrative expertise and cloud-based technology will help you to collect, analyse and report your ESG performance:
– API feeds and Vistra service teams help collect and input the right data from across your entities and operations.
– Seamless technology aggregates and benchmarks ESG data to support you identify trends, opportunities, and cost savings.
– Reporting dashboards for all areas of your ESG initiatives including social and emissions data across scope 1, 2 and 3.
– Simple implementation and a fully customisable and intuitive interface.
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ESG risk management
Our full risk-management solution allows you to track and visualise risk, quantifying outcomes to help you develop action plans to maintain compliance and drive your strategy forward effectively
– Real-time risk tracking.
– Powerful visualisations to identify risks and opportunities.
– Seamless scalability as you develop your ESG strategy.
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Report and benchmark against multiple regulatory frameworks
Our reporting platform is customisable and can be mapped across all areas of ESG and against multiple sustainability reporting standards and frameworks to ensure you always remain compliant. You can implement a single framework, or a combination of frameworks based on your needs.
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Get in touch to discuss how we can support you to manage ESG risk
Driving your ESG strategy forward
Once you have a clear picture of your ESG performance, we can support you to spot and drive improvements across your business. Our regulatory and compliance expertise and advisory capabilities can help you to improve your people, tax, and legal processes. It is a combination that will help you to stay up to date with regulation and keep you one step ahead of the competition.
Over the last two years we have supported more than 275 organisations across 15 jurisdictions on over 700 regulatory change projects.
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Doing the right thing
At Vistra one of our key values is doing the right thing. It is a value we challenge ourselves to live up to every day – in how we run our business, how we look after our colleagues and in the services, we provide to our clients. It is embedded in every colleague’s personal performance objective.
Read more about our five key sustainability pledges.
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