ESG Consulting

ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) is driving companies to think about how they create value for different stakeholders in the short, medium and long term. Investors, consumers, and employees are vocalising the need to drive ESG into the heart of businesses. There is a need to demonstrate how companies create value - for themselves, stakeholders, and society through ESG reporting in India. Given the significance and impact of this information, it needs to be relevant, reliable and trusted.

The firm supports clients in their ambitions for ESG reporting in India and help them to drive the sustained outcomes they want to achieve while being compliant with reporting requirements. The firm’s community of solvers helps in embedding reporting processes, including collection, measurement and aggregation of ESG data, into the core of your business.

• Net zero transformation - We assist clients in their Net zero transformation. Transitioning to a state where the business or economic activity adds no incremental greenhouse gases to the atmosphere.

• Climate resilience, adaptation & mitigation planning - We work with our clients to identify and mitigate impacts and adapt to the climate variability and climate change. We help businesses to focus on climate resilient and just livelihood generation for communities to gain social license to operate.

• Climate risk and vulnerability analysis - We support clients in conducting in-depth analysis of the risks and opportunities posed by climate change under different GreenHouse Gas emissions trajectory and policy regime for policy makers and businesses to take informed decisions around climate adaptation and mitigation strategies.

PwC’s ESG services in India supports clients in integrating environmentally and financially viable practices into the end-to-end supply chain and asset lifecycle. The team also assists them in adopting a circular economic system aimed at minimising waste and the sustained use of resources - from product design and development, to material selection, (including raw material extraction or agricultural regeneration), manufacturing, packaging, transportation, warehousing, distribution, consumption, return and disposal.

• Impact Investing 

Provide and evaluate investments made into companies, organisations, and funds with the intention to generate a measurable, beneficial social or environmental impact alongside a financial return.

• Value Creation in deals 
  • Corporates/Private Equity - Embed ESG factors as a value driver in a deal construct to enhance value and transaction price, increasing an investment's resilience after acquisition and in impacting its exit value.
  • Corporate Intelligence due diligence - In-depth analysis of publicly available information regarding legal entities, their owners/beneficiaries, and management in order to identify any signs of untrustworthiness.
  • Forensic Investigations - Investigations into corruption, corporate governance and the financial aspects of major commercial disputes of the corporates. It includes the review of data privacy and cyber security policies of the businesses.

• Green and Social Bonds - Support clients in financing new and existing projects or activities with positive environmental and social impacts.
• Sustainable Banking funds and stock exchanges - Integrating ESG criteria into traditional banking and capital markets setting ESG performance as a key objective.
• International Development - International financial institutions have a key role to play in mitigating risks to developing economies while ensuring more efficient allocation of public and private capital. Supporting governments and sectors in utilising cross-border capital flows to fund investments in sustainable development.