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ESG and Sustainability credentials are becoming a must. From finding your Carbon Footprint, to Sustainability Assurance, ESG diagnostics to B Corp support, we help businesses looking to improve their corporate responsibility.
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Sustainability credentials are no longer a ‘nice to have’, they’re becoming a must. Getting ahead of the curve on sustainability signals the strength of your business, makes your purpose known, and helps you establish a leading position in your market segment.
Your sustainability journey isn’t just about reporting or being net zero. It’s about how you put forward a vision (your why), how you think about ESG transformation and integration, and how you weave that through your company from top to bottom, strategy to operations.
At Cooper Parry, our team can help you with the big stuff. Our Carbon Footprint Finder will help you establish exactly how you’re doing now and assist you in setting goals for the future. Our B Corp Support and Sustainability Assurance will give you a helping hand on those journeys to certification and reporting. And our ESG Diagnostic and Reporting will allow you to recognise areas for improvement.
Read more about how we can help you, below.
CP’s Carbon Footprint Finder calculates your full carbon footprint (Scopes 1, 2 & 3), so you can start setting targets and improving your impact.
Calculating your company’s carbon footprint is a decisive step in assessing your environmental impact and implementing strategies to reduce your carbon emissions. It’s also your first step towards net zero credible commitments.
Knowing your carbon footprint will drive cost savings, will enhance brand reputation and will give you competitive advantage.
Whether you have mandatory emissions requirements (i.e. SECR and CSRD), or you want to get ahead of the market, Cooper Parry’s Sustainability team can help.
Working alongside industry experts, we’ve launched a comprehensive software platform to calculate your Scope 1, 2 & 3 emissions. That’s your entire operations, including supply chain.
Our tool automates the carbon emissions calculation process whilst significantly reducing the cost and resources used for such an assessment.
We often get asked, “what does scope 1,2 and 3 emissions cover?”
CP’s Carbon Footprint Finder is able to calculate all the categories listed above, and it’s aligned with the GHG Protocol. Companies of all sizes, industries and geographies can comprehensively measure, report and track carbon emissions using the software and our expertise.
We also have proprietary emission factors for Scope 3 emissions, making calculations much easier and more accurate.
The CP Carbon Footprint Finder platform makes it simple for anyone to input data and calculate emissions as it uses ‘non-scientific’ prompts for what data to upload alongside detailed guides. We’ll give you all the technical support you need on this too!
If you have any questions, or you’d like to find out more about the benefits the platform can bring to your business, get in touch.
Download our Data Helper Tool designed to help you understand what data to include to create a robust organisational footprint within our software.
Upload your data from energy, water, waste, travel, freight, manufacturers, materials purchased, cloud host providers and much more.
In the past, this was the hard part. Our software completes it all for you to create your organisation’s scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions reports.
Now you know your carbon footprint, use your baseline to create targets and compare results year-on-year, or more regularly, to monitor your progress.
A tool designed to help you kickstart, fine-tune and analyse your ESG journey, so you can make informed, impactful decisions going forward.
How confident are you in your ESG framework? Do you even have one in place?
Cooper Parry’s ESG Diagnostic Tool helps you get started on this journey and gives you greater clarity around all things ESG in your business.
Our ESG team will use this time to understand your business better and personalise the assessment accordingly. It’s also a great chance to get any of your ESG questions answered.
You’ll get access to our proprietary self-assessment platform. Clear, concise, and high-quality, it looks at 9 key ESG themes and analyses your business based on five performance level indicators: compliance; optimisation; differentiation; purpose-driven; and innovation.
You’ll receive a personalised report based on those findings, free from any overly technical ESG lingo. It will help you:
✅ Highlight your ESG strengths and show where you can improve, whilst highlighting the benefits.
✅ Have a clear action plan, presented in bitesize pieces of information across short, medium and long-term lenses.
✅ Map your reporting to Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), it can be the cornerstone of your ESG reporting.
✅ Have a report to present to the Board detailing your ESG approach and opportunities, at a cost that won’t break your budget.
“CP continue to provide collaborative guidance and ESG support, including introductions to ESG champions across industry sectors, sharing their knowledge and best practice. Completing their online ESG Diagnostic Tool has given us a baseline ESG position, and the feedback and recommendations have challenged us to plan how ESG is considered in everything that we do.
The friendly and inclusive approach throughout the CP team is inspiring, and exciting times are ahead, working with CP to embed and implement ESG within business transformation activities by inspiring people, improving profit and impact.”
PHIL COOMBS, ENGINEERING & QUALITY COACH
SHARING IN GROWTH
To find out more about CP’s ESG Diagnostic Tool, get in touch.
Whether it’s mandatory or voluntary ESG reporting, Cooper Parry can help you prepare everything you need with time to spare.
ESG reporting can be a complex, time-consuming exercise. Littered with acronyms and technical language, we often call the landscape an ‘Alphabet Soup’. And if you don’t have the resource, or you’re not completely clued up, it can leave a bad taste in your mouth.
At Cooper Parry, our Impact Beyond Business team support companies with their mandatory and voluntary reporting.
Be it TCFD, GRI, ISSB or a wider Impact Report, we offer pragmatic and simple sustainability reporting solutions, freeing up your team and providing the knowledge you need to keep pace in a fast-moving landscape.
We’ll support you through the full journey:
“We began our Scope 3 journey in early 2022, and in the two years since, have taken great strides in identifying and measuring our value chain emissions. It therefore felt the right time to get our data and methodologies independently reviewed before moving to the next stage.
This is where CP came in. Nicoleta engaged with our team, asking the right questions and providing relevant and timely guidance. The project was delivered on time and on budget, and the resulting report fitted the original brief perfectly, reviewing all aspects of Scope 3 carbon reporting and providing detailed findings, backed up with appropriate guidance.
We found CP very easy to work with, a perfect balance of energy, dynamism and professionalism with excellent underpinning knowledge. Working with CP has also opened up a host of networking opportunities, with like-minded individuals and organisations.”
MARK TUCKER, HEAD OF HEALTH, SAFETY & ENVIRONMENT
MARSTON HOLDINGS LTD
Looking for independent assurance on your ESG reporting and metrics? Perhaps you have a sustainability linked loan that needs 3rd party verification?
Cooper Parry’s Sustainability team can help.
We work with businesses of all sizes and structures, helping them with their assurance reports and offering assurance over their targets.
So, however big or small your business is – and wherever you are on your ESG journey – we can help you spot any gaps, guarantee present and future compliance, and align all your ESG activities for maximum impact.
Our third-party verification is prepared in accordance with ISAE (UK) 3000 and/or ISAE 3410, as well as proprietary methodologies. It provides either limited or reasonable assurance, depending on the stakeholders’ requirements.
Assurance and 3rd party verification exercises will be unique to each company so our approach will be tailored to your specific circumstances and reporting requirements.
If you’d like to find out more about how we can support your ESG journey, get in touch.
“Cooper Parry supported us in certifying our offsetting methods, thereby ensuring transparency and accountability. The process was straightforward, with CP interviewing the Blacklane team to understand the governance and review processes, analysing and testing the key structures, systems and controls, and performing recalculations to corroborate the tonnes of carbon dioxide emitted, carbon credits purchased, and the carbon credits retired.
CP really assisted us in achieving milestones as we reduce the impact of carbon emissions through our business.”
RENÉ VAN OLST, CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER
BLACKLANE
Thinking about becoming a B Corp? Cooper Parry can guide and advise you through the journey to B Corp certification.
People want to work for and buy from businesses that are making a positive impact on our planet and local communities. In a noisy marketplace, B Corp certification has become a powerful way for companies to differentiate themselves, prove their sustainability credentials, and show they’re walking the walk.
To become a B Corp, your business has to meet stringent criteria and answer over 200 questions. The process can be time-consuming. Throw in the day-to-day running of your business, and typical lack of resource is an all-too-common hurdle for budding B Corps.
Our approach enables your teams to minimise their time investment, and we guide the entire process to maximise learning opportunities.
Almost half of businesses fail on their first attempt to certify as a B Corp. But every single client we’ve helped through the frameworks has certified on their first attempt.
By working with Cooper Parry, you can get the most out of your B Corp assessment in the least amount of time, so you can focus on impact innovation.
Here’s how we can help:
Our own certification came in February 2023, and we’re still the UK’s largest accountancy B Corp. Three years in the making, it became the blueprint for how we operate. Now, and in the future.
Having seen how transformative the process has been at CP, rocket-fuelling our Net Zero goal, internal and external engagement, and so much more, we’re passionate about helping other businesses join the movement.
“Cooper Parry helped us with the completion of our first B Corp assessment, providing a colleague to assist with finalising the entry, the submission of evidence and the verification interview. CP took a ‘critical friend’ approach and played a big part in us achieving certification and successfully evidencing areas where the assessor challenged.
We would certainly recommend that anyone preparing a B Corp application or similar should consider CP to help with the process.”
PETE VAUGHAN, STRATEGIC DEVELOPMENT MANAGER
OAKLAND INTERNATIONAL LTD
Want to find out more about how we can support your B Corp journey? Get in touch.
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NICOLETA VOICU
Making a difference in the world is more important than ever. Minimising our impact on the environment and reducing waste and pollution is an ongoing challenge, but it’s one we take very seriously – from board level to our most junior employees.
NICOLETA VOICU
Making a difference in the world is more important than ever. Minimising our impact on the environment and reducing waste and pollution is an ongoing challenge, but it’s one we take very seriously – from board level to our most junior employees.
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