Sustainability strategy, integration and transformation

Building resilience and competitive advantage through sustainability integration

Organizations are under pressure to manage sustainability risks and seek out opportunities to create value. Businesses face a new imperative to develop comprehensive sustainability strategies that align with broader business objectives and stakeholder expectations, particularly as the energy transition continues to transform the global economy.

Our cross-functional team is ready to help you build and integrate your sustainability strategy into your organization. We’ll apply the right tech capabilities, complemented by our industry-specific insights, to help position your business for transformational change and competitive, sustainable growth.

Our approach to accelerating your strategy-led, sustainability-centred transformation

Regardless of where your organization is on its sustainability journey, we can help you build a fit-for-purpose approach that harnesses technology and reflects your unique ambition and operational considerations. Our global network lets us distill emerging sustainability issues and leading solutions into strategies that will deliver real value for the Canadian market. We combine our experience and knowledge across industries with next-generation technology and sustainability subject matter excellence to help you:

  • benchmark your performance, vision, strategy and ambition to facilitate a competitive and future-ready transformation across climate, nature, social impact and corporate governance 

  • contextualize your sustainability strategy and investments against relevant market expectations, macro risks and upcoming regulations and policies

  • incorporate sustainability drivers such as climate change, regulation, as well as investor and stakeholder expectations into broader corporate strategic objectives to unlock efficiencies and accelerate your sustainable transformation

  • shift your sustainability approach from value protection to value creation by creating efficiencies and aligning organization-wide capital allocation decisions

  • implement technology capabilities to meet your sustainability data needs and improve accuracy, efficiency and decision-making and to meet regulatory requirements

How we can help

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Sustainability strategy and integration services

Integrating sustainability across the business—including in strategy and across the value chain—helps you build trust and deliver sustained outcomes to all stakeholders. A well-rounded integrated strategy gives you the opportunity to embed sustainability across your organization and create business value, resilience and competitive advantage. We help you unlock this opportunity by:

  • developing or enhancing sustainability strategies, integrating sustainability into corporate strategy and assessing ambitions for material sustainability matters and opportunities to drive business and societal value 

  • integrating material sustainability matters—such as GHG emissions, climate risks, modern slavery risks and your social impact, both within and beyond your organization—across all corporate functional areas, including your supply chain

  • setting targets, developing key performance indicators and managing your performance

  • analyzing macro-level sustainability scenarios and stress-testing your strategy 

Sustainability transformation services

Sustainability is set to become an integral part of business transformation and business model reinvention in the future. Being a sustainable company means understanding and actively managing the environmental, social and governance (ESG) impact of your value chain—giving you confidence in the long-term viability of your company's business model. This requires the right operating model, skills and capabilities across your organization alongside technology that enhances your performance, measurement and reporting. We help you do this by:

  • identifying where sustainability factors align with the transformation agenda in your business, including technology needs, product innovation and supply chain management

  • developing or co-developing your transformation plan and roadmap

  • developing a target operating model to enhance performance against the integrated strategy

  • developing a post-transformation performance management plan

Sustainability data and technology services

We take a human-led and tech-powered approach to sustainability transformation. Our team of sustainability technology specialists can help you select and implement the right sustainability tools and technology to power your sustainability transformation, performance and reporting in line with evolving reporting requirements. We’ll help you capture metrics that matter and generate credible data.

Increased standards and regulations around sustainability reporting, as well as the need to adopt technology that accelerates performance, requires high-quality sustainability data and the engagement of multiple stakeholders. Our Alliances with technology companies power unique sustainability solutions. You’ll benefit from their strong brand recognition and complementary products, skills and talents—and proven track record of working strategically with PwC.

We help you with: 

  • current state analysis of your existing processes and tech stack and opportunity to integrate sustainability factors

  • data and technology strategy development, with a view to meet sustainability function-specific and broader organizational needs

  • sustainability technology architecture design

  • sustainability master data services

  • sustainability reporting platform implementation, tailored to facilitate comprehensive sustainability management and reporting

  • development and integration of required technologies and data models into your existing architecture

  • development and adoption of technology for sustainability performance improvement, including AI.

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Meghan Harris-Ngae

Meghan Harris-Ngae

National Sustainability Strategy and Transformation Leader, Global Sustainability Leader for Enterprise Private Business, PwC Canada

Tel: +1 587 226 1303

Mikaela McQuade

Mikaela McQuade

Partner, ESG Strategy and Transformation, PwC Canada

Tel: +1 647-302-5781

Daniel O’Brien

Daniel O’Brien

Partner, Sustainability and Climate Change, PwC Canada

Tel: +1 604 484 3478

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