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How We Developed a Sustainability Report & Captured the Environmental Footprint of One of the Largest, Small Finance Banks' Operations

SG Analytics - Case Study - INDIA-BASED LARGEST SMALL FINANCE BANK

BUSINESS SITUATION

  • The client published their integrated report in the last financial year and wanted to improve their sustainability performance in the next few years through focus on comprehensiveness of sustainability disclosures. The objective of the research was:
  • To disclose sustainability commitment and performance through globally recognized standards and Indian regulatory mandate 
  • To pave way for improved sustainability in future by acknowledging current environmental footprint and sustainability performance

SGA APPROACH


Sustainability Disclosures

  • Review and analysis of existing processes, procedures, and initiatives

  • Identification of ESG indicators and KPIs relevant to client’s operations and sector

  • Development of management approach strategy to prioritize globally relevant material topics based on the existing materiality assessment

  • Interaction with various functional heads to identify key focus areas to be included in their sustainability disclosures

  • Creation of information requisition templates to fill in information gaps

  • Development of sustainability report

Environmental footprint assessment

  • Reviewing environment-related processes and initiatives for energy, emission, water, and waste

  • Identifying environmental footprint boundaries for client’s operations

  • Developing data collection templates and collecting, compiling, categorizing, and analyzing scope emissions data as per the GHG protocol

  • Ascertaining and reporting client’s environmental footprint 

 

ENGAGEMENT

Development of client’s sustainability report and capturing environmental footprint of their operations. 

BENEFITS AND OUTCOMES

  • Enhanced disclosure quality across globally recognized standards and compliance requirements

  • Early adoption of the sustainability disclosure standards in the sector

  • Streamlined data capturing of the client’s environmental footprint

 

KEY TAKEAWAYS

  • Analysis and rectification of gaps in ESG disclosures

  • Development of sustainability disclosures and their early implementation

  • Development of data-monitoring templates to capture the client’s GHG emissions in their operations

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