Canadian companies know their stakeholders expect environmental, social and governance (ESG) considerations to be integrated across their organization. But meeting those expectations requires more than simply saying the right things about your sustainability initiatives—especially as jurisdictions around the world introduce new mandatory reporting requirements. Investors, customers, employees and regulators are demanding ESG reports that are relevant, measurable, verifiable and complete.
Satisfying these rapidly evolving expectations starts with a reporting strategy that integrates your corporate and sustainability priorities. This requires engaging stakeholders, pinpointing material ESG areas, articulating sustainability-related risks and opportunities, setting targets and establishing performance metrics.
For sustainability reporting to be useful for decision making, it needs to be trusted. And many investors are skeptical about the corporate sustainability claims they read. Companies need processes and controls around their data collection, calculations and reporting that allow them to disclose verifiable information.
Combining these measures with assurance from an independent auditor is a powerful way to increase confidence in your sustainability reporting.
Reporting is at the heart of what we do.
At PwC Canada, we take a human-led and tech-powered approach to accelerating your journey toward trusted, investor-grade ESG reporting that complies with emerging mandatory disclosure standards and leading global frameworks.
We take a multidisciplinary approach to transforming your reporting function to meet your sustainability ambitions and comply with sustainability reporting standards and frameworks. To help you build confidence in sustainability reporting, we bring together an agile community of solvers made up of reporting advisors, accountants, data, technology and controls experts, climate and environmental scientists, supported by a global network of close to 10,000 sustainability professionals, including nearly 200 in Canada.
Working with PwC Canada gives you access to a diverse team of specialists backed by sustainability solutions developed through our Alliances with leading technology companies.
We’ll help you establish a holistic reporting approach that aligns your processes, systems and controls. And we’ll work with you to establish metrics that align to your strategy, developing a tailored and transparent story of your progress toward your ESG goals and helping you to report in compliance with the spectrum of evolving regulatory frameworks. This lets you meet rising stakeholder expectations and better understand how your various sustainability initiatives are performing.
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Companies are under pressure to report progress against their ESG strategies and commitments. But many either don’t know where to start or struggle to move beyond a basic approach to reporting. We can help you benchmark your disclosures, assess mandatory and emerging regulatory requirements and develop an ESG reporting strategy that’s connected to your business strategy and purpose. Our ESG reporting advisory services include:
Establishing and implementing the right processes, data flows and internal controls over sustainability reporting sets the basis for compliant and strategic ESG reporting. Our ESG process, data and controls advisory services help you establish the rigor, consistency and reliability required by management, boards and capital markets participants who are increasingly using non-financial disclosures to measure a companies’ performance. Our ESG reporting process, data and internal controls services include:
Trusted and scalable processes to collect and report ESG data let companies efficiently produce and validate external and internal reporting that’s reliable and accurate. We help provide transparency and assurance over the end-to-end lineage of data supporting ESG reporting and guidance on how to align with national and global regulatory standards and requirements. Our services include:
Let’s start with a conversation about where you are and where you should be. We’ll work with you to determine the level of sustainability assurance that matches the maturity of your reporting, delivering recommendations for getting you to the next level—whether you’re preparing for your first limited assurance opinion or looking for reasonable ESG assurance in line with your financial statement audit.
New regulations, such as Canada’s modern slavery rules, coupled with rising consumer expectations and supply chain complexity, make it crucial to manage your supply chain risks and opportunities. Our ESG supply chain assurance and advisory services can help you avoid unexpected disruptions in your supply chain and manage risks and opportunities throughout the life cycle of your business. Our assurance services cover:
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Partner, National Sustainability Report and Assurance Leader, PwC Canada
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