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Sustainability and ESG Consulting Services
Our ESG and Sustainability consulting services help public and private sector clients ensure long-term value in their sustainable development achievements.
Our ESG and Sustainability Consulting Services:
- ESG Consulting & Sustainability Strategy Services
- Verification & Assurance Services
- Climate Risk Assessment & Climate Scenario Analysis
- Livable City Solutions – Sustainable Cities, Campuses, Communities
- Sustainability Reporting & Assurance
- CDP Reporting Consulting & Score Improvement
- ESG Regulatory Compliance Consulting
- CSRD Reporting Consulting
- Sustainability Training (GRI, CDP, SASB, IFRS, SBTi, EcoVadis)
- Supply Chain Sustainability Consulting
- Sustainability Audits
- CSWA Certified Sustainable Audits for Wineries
- KERAMIDA’s ESG Integration Approach
- Renewable Energy Solutions
- Oil & Gas Industry Sustainability & GHG Consulting
- Sustainability for the Sports Industry
- ISO-Based ESG & Sustainability Management Systems
- ISO 14001 & 45001 Systems with a Sustainability Focus
- ESG Data Management & Analytics
ESG & Sustainability Consulting Experts
With more than 20 years of experience, KERAMIDA is a powerhouse of ESG program development, sustainability reporting, and training.,
We are a sustainability consulting firm with a talented team of analysts, scientists, engineers, and trainers who are dedicated to solving our clients’ most challenging ESG needs.
KERAMIDA advises industry, businesses, and cities in the U.S. and abroad. We have been a GRI Community Member since 2016, and as GRI Certified Trainers, we offer online training on the GRI Certified Standards for corporate teams.
Having spent many years as a CDP Global Gold Verification Provider and CDP Silver Consultancy Provider in the U.S., KERAMIDA brings deep CDP disclosure experience. For companies striving to make CDP’s ‘A’ List, our experts provide strategic planning to improve your CDP reporting and boost your score through our proven Roadmap to ‘A’ process.
As members of the IFRS Consultant Content Programme, we have created custom training courses for SASB. Our expertise also includes EcoVadis, Science-Based Targets (SBTs), and IFRS to better serve our clients’ needs for sustainability services that incorporate the leading reporting standards. In addition, our team provides mock scoring and support for the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) reporting framework.
We support clients from diverse sectors with ESG program development, from benchmarking peers, facilitating materiality assessments, and program planning to program implementation, evaluation, training, and reporting.
Our unique, strategic, and whole-systems approach to ESG and sustainability involves deep knowledge of compliance, best practices, and ISO management systems, as well as manufacturing operations and business strategies.
Our team’s combined expertise serves as the technical foundation from which our professionals provide expert ESG and sustainability advising and training services.
What our sustainability clients are saying…
ESG Consulting & Sustainability Strategy Services
Whether you have a role in an EHS department, handle investor relations, or lead a corporate sustainability team, we can match your sustainability needs with the expertise of one of our professionals. We help businesses at every part of the journey, from taking their first steps in developing an effective sustainability program to disclosing their ESG performance and advising on sustainability initiatives that create value.
Sustainability Reporting
KERAMIDA’s team of sustainability reporting experts provides companies with clear guidance and an action plan for complying with mandatory reporting obligations while building on any existing reporting with voluntary standards. We help our clients with EU ESG disclosure regulations, including CSRD, CBAM, and CSDDD, as well as U.S. corporate climate compliance, like California’s Climate Laws.
CSRD Reporting Consulting
Enacted in January 2023, the European Union’s Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) applies to nearly 50,000 EU-based companies and will be phased in between 2024 and 2029. Notably, non-EU-based companies with significant operations within the EU (e.g., over 500 employees and an annual balance sheet above €20 million or a net turnover above €40 million) are subject to the regulation.
The CSRD rule requires companies to disclose climate change-related risks as well as the impacts that such risks have on society and climate – a concept known as “double materiality”. It also requires a company to disclose its Scope 3 emissions.
Sustainability Audits
An audit of your company or organization’s sustainability program will allow you to quickly and easily evaluate the sustainability practices that your business has already implemented, and identify areas where there is opportunity for improvement.
When conducting a comprehensive sustainability audit, our experts will:
- Review your sustainability policy and assess the reasonableness and comprehensiveness of the policy.
- Evaluate the extent to which your policy is likely to help ensure that your program operates in a sustainable manner.
- Recommend ways that your policy could be strengthened to further the goal of operating sustainably.
- Consider the metrics you are currently collecting in order to monitor compliance with your sustainability policy, and evaluate performance.
- Determine whether those metrics are the most appropriate for measuring each objective of your policy. If your program’s current metrics are insufficient, we recommend more appropriate metrics.
- Assess your program’s process for developing thresholds and targets for its performance.
- Evaluate whether your program is making sufficient progress toward setting a sustainability baseline.
KERAMIDA's ESG Integration Approach
KERAMIDA’s Proprietary ESG Assessment & Implementation Model – building the ESG Sustainability business case to reduce costs and corporate risk, and improve market positioning of corporations and cities.
Based on Metrics and KPIs for Compliance and Best Management Practices, GreenStep™ builds the business case for CEOs and investors, who want to:
- Reduce Costs
- Minimize Risk
- Address Investor Needs
- Improve Market Positioning
- Create Social & Economic Value
KERAMIDA’s GreenStep™ approach:
Maximizes the benefits of satisfying your EHS compliance requirements
- Maximizes the cost savings from using Best Management Practices
- Maximizes the performance of your Continual Improvement Management Systems
- Provides you with materials to communicate your company’s resilience and sustainability to employees, investors, and your community
For our industrial clients, GreenStep™ blends top management’s strategic interests with the operational interests of the managers who are responsible for the day-to-day supervision of EHS. GreenStep™ guides you through the challenges encountered on the plant floor while satisfying the increasing demand for leading indicators of company health.
ESG & Sustainability Management Systems
KERAMIDA’s proprietary ESG & Sustainability Management System Program based on an ISO platform.
KERAMIDA has been advising industrial and governmental clients on the principles and requirements of sustainability planning and ISO 14001 and ISO 45001 Management Systems since the early 1990’s. Our professionals have over two decades of experience creating, implementing, auditing, and improving ISO 14001 Environmental Management Systems and ISO 45001 Health & Safety Management Systems. KERAMIDA’s technical, regulatory, and management systems expertise is indispensable in designing systems that are cost-effective and easy to implement.
Our FastTrack® System is the fastest, most cost-effective way to develop a Management System.
FastTrack® follows a proven, step-by-step process that creates a fully documented plan ready for implementation in the fewest days possible, with the least amount of disruption to personnel and operations. Our FastTrack® approach covers the elements necessary to develop, implement, and audit a sustainability program, but has been streamlined in terms of total hours, on-site days, and cost.
Highlighted Sustainability Consulting Experience
Our work has included:
- The development of a strategic growth plan for a major European industrial group to address the cost implications of the EU greenhouse gases legislation.
- The performance of a major study for the U.S. Department of Energy on reduction of greenhouse emissions and energy use by heavy manufacturing.
- The sustainability audit of the California High Speed Rail project for the California State Auditor’s Office – in order to provide expertise on sustainability planning and policy development for what was the largest infrastructure project in the U.S.
- The assessment of green power production by waste products for a major car manufacturer with a zero-landfill goal.
- Thousands of Compliance and Best Management Practices Audits/Assessments of manufacturing plants in the U.S. and around the world.
- The development and implementation of the Sustainable Public Works Program for Capital Assets for the City of Indianapolis — a first in the U.S.
- The first Reuse Plan and Design of a Superfund Site for a comprehensive, multi-purpose development — a first nationally.
- The subject was also co-taught by Dr. Keramida at Purdue University’s Civil Engineering Senior Design Class (Spring 2016 semester), leading the students to produce a cutting-edge design for a comprehensive and creative for-profit development of a Superfund site – a first among engineering schools for senior design.
- Developed the Environmental and Sustainability components for a major Private Public Partnership (P3) Development Project and drafted the Environmental/Sustainability provisions of the Lenders’ Technical Advisor (LTA) Report.