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Three service pillars

While sustainable development should be a natural thing to do, it requires dedication. It calls for experts able to coach with best practices. Successful sustainable development needs a framework with tangible objectives and continuous action. Our three service pillars, each with their specific expertise and closely intertwined, form our solid backbone. Hereby, we can offer an integrated service portfolio on company, product and brand level. Whether you need full support or sideline assistance to develop your organisation's sustainability, shape your circular products or build your sustainable brand, we will help you move forward.

Develop sustainable organisations

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ESG Strategy Double Materiality Assessment (DMA) ESG Implementation ESG Reporting (CSRD/VSME) Due Diligence Stakeholder Engagement Governance Climate B Corp® Certification Interim Management

This is the starting premise for any organisation. We help you create a sustainability strategy that outlines:

your organisation’s responsibilities towards society,
the topics and areas in which your organisation can create a positive impact,
your organisation’s sustainability goals, targets and KPIs and
a clear path and timeline.

This means setting clear objectives and making sure everyone in your organisation is on the same page. Sustenuto’s Sustainability Growth Model™ provides an efficient step-by-step approach for avoiding the usual pitfalls when embedding an effective sustainability strategy.

To inform and engage your stakeholders, customers, employees, and other partners, you need a state-of-the-art report on your progress in terms of sustainable development. We assist you in the creation from start to finish of attractive sustainability reports, including datacollection, copywriting and lay-out according to your corporate identity. We ensure compliance with following standards:

Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) through the European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS),
Voluntary Small Medium Enterprise (VSME) via de VSME-European Sustainability Reporting Standard (VSME-ESRS),
Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) standards or
Integrated Reporting Framework (IR).

Whether you need help with monitoring, data collection, or copywriting, we have got you covered.

To be effective in their execution, your sustainability strategies need to be rooted in strong governance. We support you in the development and implementation of good governance. This includes setting up task forces, monitoring progress, and involving executive management.

We also support you in your ethical business conduct with:

policies regarding business ethics and human rights
training on ethical business conduct and
integration of policies within your operations.

Good governance promotes continuous engagement and ensures that your plan remains actively integrated within your organisation.

Every organisation is committed to mitigating the impact of its activities on our climate. We offer support for measuring your carbon footprint, setting realistic reduction targets, and developing actions to minimise your GHG emissions:

We use international standards (GHG protocol) to measure the carbon footprint across your value chain (Scope 1, 2 and 3).
We advise on credible and realistic objectives aligned with the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi).
We provide support for the implementation of online dashboards (SaaS carbon accounting software) for efficient monitoring.

We also ensure the compliance and auditability of your carbon accounting processes.

B Corp® sets the most ambitious sustainability standard at the organisational level. We support you in the assessment and application process, ensuring compliance and successful certification. We:

offer guidance for the eligibility check to be validated by B Lab,
assist you in completing and reviewing the BIA (B Impact Assessment),
identify your organisation’s Impact Business Model and
assist you in editing the mission-lock (with approved legal wording).

Being a proud B Corp® company ourselves, we strongly encourage other businesses to raise the bar and apply for B Corp certification. Our team of qualified B Leaders are ready to support you.

We provide expert sustainability leadership and strategic guidance during transitions or temporary gaps in sustainability management, ensuring your organisation maintains momentum on its sustainability goals. This can be fully tailored depending on your needs to deliver results that align with your strategic objectives and operational realities. This includes:

development and implementation of sustainability strategies,
coordination of stakeholder engagement,
preparation for and compliance with various certifications or standards,
ensuring regulatory compliance and
embedding sustainable practices across your operations.

Furthermore, we provide comprehensive documentation and insights to guide future efforts and maintain the progress achieved in the interim.

Shape circular products

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Cradle to Cradle Certified® Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) Material Health Circularity Roadmap

The Cradle to Cradle Certified® Product Standard (C2C) is the leading product certification standard for powering a circular economy. It focuses on safe and circular products. We help you achieve C2C certification, giving you:

a deep understanding of your value chain, from an environmental, societal and health perspective,
a science-based approach focusing on safe, circular, and responsibly made products and
an increased understanding of what sustainability and circularity mean for your products, organisation and value chain.

We help you implement specific optimisation strategies and provide you with the necessary tools for effective follow-up. The Cradle to Cradle Certified® Product Standard (C2C) is the quality label that your stakeholders and end users will recognise and trust for safe and circular products.

A Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is an effective tool for understanding and improving the environmental performance of products. By conducting an LCA, we identify hotspots in the life cycle of your products and guide practical implementation to reduce impacts. We support you in conducting LCAs according to the following standardised methodologies:

general ISO standards (ISO 14040 and ISO 14044 standards),
specific LCA standards (such as EN15804 for building materials) or
the European Commission’s Environmental Footprint (EF) method, a uniform approach for assessing and disclosing the environmental performance of products and organisations.

LCAs are also used to communicate environmental performance by means of an Environmental Product Declaration (EPD).

We guide you through the EPD certification process, enhancing transparency and providing a comprehensive framework for communicating your products’ environmental impact. We support you:

with life cycle assessments (LCA) to gather accurate data on the environmental impacts of your products,
by compiling and verifying this data to ensure it meets the stringent requirements of EPD standards and
with strategic advice on how to integrate EPDs into your broader sustainability initiatives.

We help you communicate the value of your EPDs to stakeholders and leverage them to enhance your market position. Our expertise covers a wide range of industries, ensuring that your EPDs reflect the unique characteristics and challenges of your products.

Build sustainable brands

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Communication strategy Communication Plan Sustainability Narrative Green Claims Directive

We develop communication strategies to highlight your sustainability efforts and strengthen your brand identity. This includes crafting a compelling narrative and ensuring your message resonates with your audience. This strategy: