A3C Consulting is committed to supporting private equity firms in navigating the evolving ESG landscape. Our ESG advisory services offer comprehensive solutions tailored to your firm’s needs, enabling you to integrate sustainability into your core strategies and investment processes.
Carbon Management and Sustainability Strategies
- Tailored Climate Risk Consulting
We provide expert advice on carbon management and sustainability strategies, designed to align with your firm’s unique business objectives, industry-specific regulations, and market dynamics. Our services are built upon a deep understanding of the challenges facing private equity firms, helping you navigate both risk and opportunity in the transition to a low-carbon economy.
- Net-Zero Strategy Development
A Triple C can lead workstreams to develop robust net-zero strategies for your portfolio, utilizing decarbonization levers such as clean fuels, clean power, supply chain mitigation, and carbon removal mechanisms. We ensure that your approach to sustainability not only complies with regulations but also positions your firm as a leader in responsible investment.
Climate Risk and Decarbonization Projects
- Carbon Footprinting and Emissions Target-Setting
We assist in calculating your firm’s GHG emissions footprint and setting ambitious yet achievable decarbonization targets. Our team guides you through the complexities of carbon reporting and emissions reductions, helping ensure alignment with climate-related financial and regulatory requirements.
- Project-Level Due Diligence
We provide comprehensive due diligence services for carbon removal projects, ensuring their feasibility, alignment with your sustainability goals, and compliance with regulatory standards. This includes project vetting, risk assessment, and market analysis to ensure the credibility of climate-focused investments.
- Supply Chain Decarbonization
A Triple C helps you decarbonize your supply chain by identifying key emissions drivers and implementing strategies to reduce carbon footprints across the entire value chain. This includes assessing supplier emissions, setting reduction targets, and monitoring progress towards climate goals.
Sustainability Reporting and Market Analysis
- Comprehensive Sustainability Reporting
We support your firm in creating accurate and transparent sustainability reports, ensuring compliance with frameworks such as the Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) and SFDR. Our team helps communicate your firm’s climate risk management efforts to stakeholders, fostering trust and demonstrating leadership in sustainability.
- Climate Risk Market Analysis and Forecasting
A Triple C provides market positioning strategies and climate risk forecasting, enabling your firm to stay ahead of emerging risks and opportunities. Our insights help you understand market trends, regulatory developments, and investment risks associated with climate change.
Stakeholder Engagement and Project Management
- Stakeholder Coordination
We work closely with internal teams, external partners, and stakeholders to ensure alignment on climate risk management projects. Our team takes the lead on stakeholder engagement, ensuring all parties are aligned on goals and timelines to deliver successful project outcomes.
- Project Management
A Triple C manages climate risk-related projects from inception through completion, developing detailed project plans, tracking milestones, and ensuring timely delivery of results. Regular updates and reports are provided to senior management, ensuring transparency and accountability throughout the project lifecycle.
Policy Insights and Business Development Support
- Policy and Economic Insights
We generate actionable policy insights, techno-economic analyses, and market reports to help you anticipate regulatory changes and adapt to evolving environmental policies. These insights allow your firm to proactively adjust strategies and stay ahead of the regulatory curve.
- Support for Business Development and Proposals
A Triple C assists in building a robust pipeline of climate-focused opportunities. This includes developing proposals, responding to Requests for Proposals (RFPs), and supporting your firm’s business development efforts related to climate risk and sustainability.
Climate Transition Modeling
- Decarbonization Modeling and Scenario Planning
We leverage our expertise in climate transitions to model various decarbonization scenarios, helping your firm prepare for a range of climate-related risks and opportunities. Our models provide clarity on potential outcomes, helping you make informed decisions on investment strategies, risk management, and sustainability goals.
- Cutting-Edge Climate Solutions
We stay up-to-date with the latest advancements in climate technologies, sustainable practices, and environmental policies to deliver cutting-edge solutions that help your firm navigate the climate transition effectively.
ESG Strategy Development and Integration
- Gap Analysis and Product Strategy Review
We perform a detailed gap analysis of your firm’s existing product offerings against regulatory requirements such as SFDR and EU Taxonomy. This includes product categorization, helping to align your strategy with current and future regulatory frameworks and redefining your product strategy to remain competitive and compliant.
- Investment Restriction
Our team identifies any potential investment restrictions or eligibility issues against ESG criteria and guides you on opportunities for preferential tax treatment for ESG-aligned investments. We review your business plan to ensure that it reflects the latest ESG standards and market expectations.
- Impact Strategy Development
A3C assists in establishing dedicated impact investment strategies that align with global standards, ensuring that your firm not only meets regulatory obligations but also contributes positively to social and environmental outcomes.
Documenting and Compliance Integration
- Legal Documentation Updates
We leverage our extensive experience to ensure your legal and fund documentation is updated to reflect ESG considerations. This includes revising Private Placement Memoranda (PPM), contracts, and ESG disclosures to ensure compliance with regulatory frameworks.
- ESG Policy and Risk Integration
We assist in updating your firm’s ESG policies, charters, and investment processes to fully integrate ESG risks and opportunities. Our services include reviewing your risk management framework to ensure sustainability risks are appropriately incorporated, reducing the likelihood of ESG-related financial or reputational risks.
- Materiality Assessments and Due Diligence
We perform ESG materiality assessments and provide standard ESG due diligence questionnaires to ensure that your investments meet both regulatory and investor expectations. This also includes assisting with engagement and voting rights policies.
- Compliance Reporting to Senior Management and Boards
A3C assists in the preparation and communication of compliance matters to senior management, corporate or fund boards, and key business partners. This includes detailed reporting on ESG compliance progress and regulatory developments.
- Maintaining Relationships with Key Business Partners
We help maintain and strengthen relationships with key business stakeholders, including attending regular management meetings and ensuring that compliance strategies are communicated and understood across the organization.
ESG Communication and Reporting
- Investor and Stakeholder Communication
Clear and effective communication is crucial for ESG success. We help your firm enhance its communication strategy with investors and other stakeholders. This includes the development of internal ESG reporting, fund reporting for LPs and GPs, and non-financial reporting to showcase your firm’s ESG performance.
- Annual Reporting and KPI Integration
A3C supports the integration of ESG Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) into your firm’s annual reports, ensuring that your sustainability efforts are transparent and measurable. We also assist with ESG marketing and communication to ensure your firm’s ESG initiatives are effectively conveyed to the market.
- Taxonomy Alignment Calculations
We assist with taxonomy alignment calculations to ensure that your firm’s investments meet the sustainability requirements under the EU Taxonomy. This not only ensures regulatory compliance but also enhances investor confidence in your firm’s commitment to sustainability.
ESG Education and Training
- Sustainable Finance Education for Employees and Executives
Through workshops and training sessions, we help your firm’s employees, management, and executives understand the importance of ESG integration. This includes offering practical guidance on ESG issues relevant to your business and keeping your team updated on regulatory developments.
- Board-Level ESG Training and Strategy Engagement
We provide board members with regular updates on ESG regulatory changes and assist them in setting future ESG strategies, ensuring that top-level management is equipped to lead your firm through the complexities of sustainable finance.
In-Depth ESG Due Diligence
- Tailored ESG Due Diligence
We conduct in-depth ESG due diligence based on major ESG frameworks, including the World Economic Forum’s Stakeholder Capitalism metrics and the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) standards. We also apply industry-specific tailoring to ensure relevance to your firm’s focus areas.
- Due Diligence on Investment Targets
A3C offers ESG-related due diligence reviews of potential targets or investment companies, ensuring alignment with your ESG goals and uncovering potential risks or opportunities.
- Sell-Side Due Diligence Reviews
We review ESG disclosures in preparation for sell-side due diligence, ensuring that ESG information is transparent, accurate, and compelling for potential investors.
ESG Value Creation Opportunities
- Identifying ESG Value Drivers
We work closely with your firm to identify ESG-related value drivers that can be integrated into your value creation agenda. These opportunities are designed to enhance both financial performance and sustainability outcomes.
- Value Creation Strategies
A3C helps develop detailed strategies and plans for delivering value creation through ESG initiatives, ensuring that sustainability drives long-term growth and competitiveness.
- Monitoring Value Creation Progress
We provide ongoing monitoring services to track your progress against the value creation strategy, ensuring that your firm remains on course to achieve both financial and ESG-related objectives.
On-Going ESG Monitoring and Reporting
- Automated ESG Monitoring
Utilizing cloud-based technology, A3C offers proactive, automated monitoring of ESG performance across your portfolio. This enables easy access to key ESG metrics and ensures real-time tracking of sustainability goals.
- Early Warning Alerts
We provide early warning alerts using sentiment analysis, allowing your firm to address emerging ESG risks before they become significant issues.
- Industry Benchmarking and Incident Response
Our services include peer and industry benchmarking to ensure your firm remains competitive in its ESG performance, as well as support for cyber security and incident response to protect against potential ESG-related risks.
- Investor-Grade ESG Disclosures
A3C assists in producing investor-grade ESG disclosures, ensuring transparency and accuracy in your ESG reporting. We also help monitor and report on key ESG KPIs to meet stakeholder expectations.
Brand Alignment and Industry Advocacy
- Brand Alignment with ESG Principles
We work closely with your firm to ensure that your brand’s core values align with the sustainability ideals of consumers and investors. This alignment strengthens your market position and builds trust with stakeholders who prioritize environmental and social responsibility.
- Industry Advocacy
A3C actively participates in industry forums and collaborates with stakeholders to champion sustainable practices across the sector. We help your firm take a leadership role in promoting ESG principles and advocating for sustainability at an industry level.
Liaison and Coordination with Key Stakeholders
- Third-Party Service Provider Management
We take responsibility for coordinating with third-party service providers such as depositories, auditors, administrators, and fund accountants, ensuring alignment with ESG regulations and maintaining compliance across all service levels.
- Cross-Department Project Coordination
A3C leads projects that involve cross-department teamwork, particularly in response to regulatory change developments. This includes coordinating between lines of business and reviewing regulatory developments to ensure your firm remains compliant with emerging ESG requirements.
- Implementation of Regulatory Changes
We provide expertise in the implementation of regulatory changes regarding sustainable fund regulations. This includes adjusting your compliance processes and ensuring your firm meets all necessary regulatory obligations.
