ESG and climate – Data and advisory
Build a digital spine across the enterprise to realize your ESG goals
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Sustainability Services
Ecosystem-led Approach to Power Your Sustainability Strategy
Overview
ESG has come a long way from being just a philosophy – it is a business imperative today, and a crucial one at that.
Global regulatory shifts, investor expectations, and stakeholder pressures have accelerated the integration of ESG into boardroom agendas. Enterprises are expected to measure, report, and act on their sustainability performance with the same rigor as financial metrics.
To drive credible, enterprise-wide sustainability transformation, organizations must build a digital spine across all functions, anchoring ESG data on a unified platform. This strengthens auditability, enhances reporting compliance, and unlocks predictive insights for future-proof strategy.
Taking a holistic approach to support an organization’s ESG agenda, TCS offers maturity assessment and gap analysis, strategy advisory, roadmap blueprinting, and data and disclosures services. Additionally, considering the direct bearing climate risk has on business resilience, TCS offers support on climate risk modelling, management, disclosures, and governance as well.
Solution
TCS provides end-to-end ESG and climate advisory services that are tailored to an organization’s sustainability goals and are mapped to measurable value metrics.
An integrated approach to ESG, anchored in ROI-led initiatives and future-ready technology, will drive enterprise-wide sustainability transformation.
TCS’ services include:
- ESG strategy and roadmap advisory: Validate and enrich ESG strategies aligned with enterprise vision, supported by benchmark-driven targets and KPIs.
- Assessment and gap analysis: Define material topics and reporting scope to establish a sustainability transformation roadmap.
- ESG data services: Enable decision intelligence through a unified ESG data platform, enhancing analytics, reporting, and insight generation.
- Disclosures and steering: Provide end-to-end support for sustainability disclosures, adjacent regulatory requirements, third-party assurance, and monitoring across enterprise and partner ecosystems.
Climate risk is a crucial component of business continuity, regulatory compliance, and long-term value creation. TCS offers:
- Climate risk governance and strategy: Provide advisory on governance structures and target operating models, with leadership enablement for risk oversight and decision-making.
- Climate risk management: Identify and quantify climate-related risks and opportunities, and propose strategies to mitigate or adapt across operations and value chains.
- Climate risk modeling: Design and integrate climate risk models into business functions using data analytics, predictive modeling, and scenario analysis, covering asset, operational, and financial impacts.
- Climate risk disclosure and assurance: Support mandatory and voluntary disclosures, including climate-related financial risks, with assurance readiness and compliance alignment.
Benefits
TCS’ ESG and climate risk advisory services contribute to long-term value creation.
With TCS’ solutions and services, organizations can:
- Sharpen customer focus and brand equity: Strengthen reputation and market credibility; differentiate brand through sustainability leadership.
- Accelerate top-line growth: Expand B2Band B2C customer base via sustainable products; improve access to resources through stronger community and government relations.
- Optimize costs: Lower energy and water usage; enhance operational efficiency in packaging, waste, and workspace management.
- Gain regulatory and financial advantage: Proactively meet compliance expectations; unlock access to subsidies, incentives, carbon credits, and climate-linked tax benefits.
- Drive workforce productivity: Enhance employee motivation and employer branding; improve labor relations and social credibility.
- Ensure investment and asset optimization: Drive better capital allocation with ESG-aligned investment strategies; mitigate long-term climate risk exposure and stranded asset potential.
The TCS Advantage
TCS’ rich contextual expertise, elaborate partner ecosystem, and future-ready platforms turn sustainability mandates into lasting competitive advantage.
We bring a comprehensive array of advisory, consulting, and system integration services designed to navigate the complexities of global sustainability and energy transition. By partnering with us, organizations stand to gain from our:
Proven track record and expertise: Extensive domain knowledge gained over the course of working across sectors and long-standing relationships with the world’s leading companies – this helps stitch advisory services that are practical and purposeful
End-to-end advisory and execution capabilities: Unlike traditional consultants, TCS not only advises but also builds and operationalizes the strategic recommendations encompassing ESG data, application, process, governance for effective ESG maturity including disclosure and reporting mechanisms. We don’t just rely on plugging a tool or a COTS product to enhance ESG reporting capabilities – TCS brings in a broad, tool-agnostic, holistic approach encompassing the people-process-product triad to navigate the ESG journey.
Tech-led innovation mindset: Through TCS Pace PortsTM, Innovation Labs, and TCS COINTM partnerships, we co-create ESG disclosure and reporting solutions and services, accelerating innovation and reducing the time to value.