SBER – Sustainability Roundtable Inc

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The Sustainable Business & Enterprise Roundtable (SBER) provides strategic advisory and support services in enterprise decarbonization trusted by scores of the world’s leading companies. SR Inc helps executives to set goals, drive progress, and report results as they lead their organizations to more sustainable high performance — all to help align business with life.

Our comprehensive strategic advisory services are complimented by assistance in all facets of corporate sustainability:

Sustainable Business

Vision

ESG Vision Statement: SBER helps Member-Clients to construct a concise, coherent vision statement aligned with their company’s purpose and sustainability strategy.

Governance

SBER helps Member-Clients to attain leadership buy-in, design (or refine) the sustainability function, and construct a comprehensive plan for corporation-wide sustainability action.

ESG Committee: SR Inc equips Member-Clients with best practice guidance and ongoing support on developing and advancing an ESG Committee or other governance mechanism reporting to the Board.

Sustainability Staffing & Budgeting: SR Inc helps develop and advance a tailored staffing structure and budgeting model for internal ESG Governance.

Sustainability Policies: SR Inc helps Member-Clients develop and evolve primary sustainability policies informed by materiality assessments and tied to each operational function.

Strategy

The breadth and depth required of corporate sustainability strategies can daunt even seasoned practitioners. But SBER breaks down the process into discrete steps. Our strategy support includes:

Materiality Assessment: SR Inc project manages Materiality Assessments to indicate 1) which ESG items resonate most with Member-Client stakeholders and 2) where a corporation can most positively impact society. SR Inc also monitors CSRD’s double materiality implications.

Environmental Goals: SR Inc provides case-based advisory tools to chart pathways on material environmental goals. Our best-practice guidance draws on global sustainability standards and high performing, industry-specific peers.

Corporate Leadership Benchmarking: SR Inc compares each Member-Client corporation’s sustainability performance to global leaders and industry peers. This comprehensive analysis prepares Member-Clients for informed decisions, ambitious goals, and leadership progress.

Multi-year Implementation Roadmap: SR Inc builds tailored, incremental roadmaps to help Member-Clients set and follow realistic timelines for their decarbonization and global leadership strategy.

Performance Dashboard: SR Inc helps Member-Clients to track metrics that drive goals around energy, emissions, supply chain, waste, water, and beyond.

Stakeholder Engagement Plan: SR Inc helps Member-Clients incorporate stakeholders into sustainability efforts. Their implemented plan includes steps, timing, and resources for outreach to suppliers, consumers, investors, and others.

Guidance

GHG Footprinting: SR Inc assists with GHG emission data collection across Scopes 1, 2, & 3.

Global Disclosure Standards: SR Inc integrates disclosure requirements into Member Briefings and Advisories, covering Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTi), the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), the CDP, the Task Force on Climate Related Financial Disclosure (TCFD), the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), the Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark (GRESB), the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), and many more.

Internal Metrics: SR Inc assists with selecting, developing, and updating internal metrics to track a corporation’s Scope 1, 2, & 3 progress towards global decarbonization goals.

Sustainability Software Solutions: SR Inc recommends software solutions for ESG data collection, reporting, and surveying based on performed cost and function benchmarking assessments.

Implementation

Renewable Energy Strategy & Procurement: SBER membership includes access to SR Inc’s Net Zero Consortium for Buyers (NZCB). This confidential, industry-leading buyers’ community creates corporate buyer favorable renewable energy transactions that enable participating enterprises to chart a profitable path to Net Zero Emissions globally.

Scope 1, 2 & 3 Solutions: As emissions reduction best practices evolve, SBER provides up-to-date, case-based tools that facilitate credible Net Zero emissions pathways.

Reporting Results

Industry Reporting Frameworks & Standards: SBER creates best practice guidance for corporations developing an ESG reporting strategy and directly supports reporting to industry standards and frameworks, including CDP, CSRD, EcoVadis, GRESB, GRI, IFRS S1 & S2, SASB, and TCFD.

CDP Assistance: SR Inc provides direct assistance with CDP Climate reporting aimed to increase scores year over year.

Mandatory Reporting: SR Inc provides best practice guidance and recommended action plans on how best to prepare for and comply with enforced disclosure standards, including U.S. SEC Climate Disclosure Rule, the EU Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), IFRS S1 and IFRS S2 (ISSB), and California’s climate reporting disclosure rules.

Sustainably Healthy Workplaces Results Report: SR Inc provides best practice guidance and support in sharing your company’s workplace sustainability success, progress, and case studies.

Member Benefits

Expert Advisory Services: SR Inc provides direct sustainability advisory and support services for each Member-Client.

Member-Client Digital Library: Member-Clients receive access to our cloud-based Digital Library comprised of hundreds of management best practice guidance publications & tools on a diverse range of topics, including sustainability, decarbonization, renewable energy, reporting frameworks, and others.

Quarterly Executive Symposia & Annual Summit: SR Inc hosts quarterly in-person and virtual symposia, as well as an annual Summit for Sustainable Business, to present and advance SR Inc’s best practice guidance & tools, network, and explore best practice examples from Member-Client executives.

Promotion & Networking: SR Inc Member-Clients enjoy the networking benefit of industry professionals who share both remarkable expertise and a passion for more sustainable business. SR Inc Member-Clients are also regularly promoted for their leadership through SR Inc’s public relations and event-related communications, including through the presentation of awards for Outstanding Corporate Leadership, Executive Leadership, & Corporate Transformation.