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J.S. Held’s Inaugural Global Risk Report Examines Potential Business Risks & Opportunities in 2024
Read MoreCorporate sustainability data is about to be placed under greater scrutiny than ever, as the SEC’s 2024 climate disclosure rules will require large companies to submit limited or reasonable assurance starting in the next few years. The good news is that greenhouse gas (GHG) verification provides a level of rigor and diligence that gives our industry added legitimacy, helping corporate sustainability avoid skepticism and claims of greenwashing.
On the individual company level, verifiers act as a collaborator, providing accuracy and actionability to your data along with recommendations on how to improve your sustainability program. When you’ve engaged a verifier, you can feel confident in what you’re reporting, both externally to the public and regulators and internally to your colleagues and stakeholders.
In partnership with Optera, we unpack the GHG verification process in this white paper as transparency and accuracy are essential to the success of corporate sustainability programs.
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Our corporate sustainability and ESG consulting services are focused on addressing the triple bottom line – people, profit, and planet.
Throughout the sustainability/ESG journey, we help business stakeholders shape their goals and strategies, select and implement technologies, enhance operations, mitigate risks, strengthen governance, and become more reputable and sustainable to drive long-term business value.
We do this by combining the diverse technical, financial, technological, scientific, regulatory, investigative, and strategic advisory expertise across our global team.
Optera was founded in 2006, originally operating as a boutique corporate sustainability consulting firm called Point380. Our founders were key contributors to ground-breaking publications – Winning the Oil Endgame, Reinventing Fire, and The 3% Solution – that informed the foundations of corporate climate action. These studies culminated in a report commissioned to launch the influential We Mean Business Coalition called The Climate Has Changed.
Around the signing of the Paris Agreement in 2016, it had become clear that consulting alone could not move the needle on corporate sustainability quickly enough to meaningfully enable global decarbonization. This need inspired the creation of Optera, the software company dedicated to scaling carbon management to empower corporations to transition to zero emissions. Built on the insights from consulting for many of the world’s largest corporate sustainability programs, Optera’s software launched in 2018 and has since been adopted by leading organizations like Cisco, HPE, NVIDIA, TJX, and Williams Sonoma. As the need for climate action increases, we’re set to grow and scale along with our clients. We believe that existential questions require concrete tools, and this is how we can make the most impact in the fight against climate change.
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