ESG & Sustainability
ESG and Sustainability Services
Measurement, reporting and governance
- Managing GHG and carbon emissions
- Helping you to establish or verify a baseline, capture and analyse the right data, and develop a robust methodology or reporting mechanism for Scope 1, 2 and 3
- Assisting with mandatory report requirements
- Undertaking diagnostics and benchmarking to identify root causes, and recommend actions of non-compliance and poor performance against industry regulatory requirements
- Helping you design appropriate measures and reporting to demonstrate your wider environmental and social impact, against reporting standards and recommended frameworks (ISSB, CSRD, TNFD, SDG’s)
As we see increasing evidence of the correlation between ESG practices and future business performance, firms should be on the front foot, looking to maximise opportunities for value creation.
Angela Tooley
HEAD OF PRIVATE EQUITY, REAL ESTATE & ESG
ESG and Sustainability Services
ESG assessments and strategy development
- Stakeholder mapping and engagement surveys to create a mutual understanding of their ESG requirements and drivers
- Value stream mapping to understand material ESG impact and risks, including those relating to nature and climate-based issues
- Double materiality assessments looking at both financial and impact materiality, to support reporting requirements and the design of value-based actions
- Creating your personalised ESG roadmap, aligned to your strategic plan. Includes a list of defined initiatives that can be completed in the short, medium and long-term horizon
- Shaping your ESG delivery programme with key objectives and targets to advance your vision
- Validating the financial, environmental and social benefits case, and your performance metrics
Your Net Zero journey is about much more than simply ticking boxes, compliance, and avoiding stranding assets. It’s about Opportunity and Value, and we firmly believe that where there’s Carbon, there’s value.
Kevin McCullough
Chair (BFY Carbon Strategies)
ESG and Sustainability Services
Decarbonisation, net zero and the environment
Decarbonising Real Estate and high energy use commercial assets
- Advising on where to focus your energy and carbon reduction efforts from buildings and other assets, shape investment cases, and monetise the savings - supported by the Real Estate experts in our Carbon Strategies team
Energy transition and net zero planning
- Helping you meet and accelerate your net zero commitments through transitioning to clean energy, using this expertise as a competitive advantage
Navigating nature-based issues
- High performing businesses are starting to make nature-based commitments alongside carbon
- We can help you to understand material risks and potential impact across the value chain, and design a roadmap to take action
Circular economy
- Advising you to pivot from a “take-make-waste” approach, to a business model centred around reducing waste
Environmental, Social and Governance
Due diligence to support investment
ESG due diligence has become integral to investment decisions for private equity and asset-based lenders, driven by tighter regulations, and growing demand amongst stakeholders for responsible investing. Ian Barker Managing Partner
ESG and Sustainability Services
Social impact through customer experience
Customer and end-user referencing
- Helping you to better understand customer needs and engagement drivers, enabling you to make strategic choices and communicate a USP in the market
- Developing new products, services and experiences that engage consumers and drive the right behaviours and positive action
Target operating model (TOM) redesign
- Providing methodologies that improve service delivery and enhance the customer experience
- Driving out wasteful processes, using automation and technology to ensure they're delivered efficiently and sustainably
The coaches I have are fantastic. The mentorship that I've been given from them is fantastic. They're really constructive with their feedback, and they're always happy to help.
Operations Manager
Energy Retailer
ESG and Sustainability Services
Immersive coaching to transform culture
Leadership Excellence programme
Our Leadership Excellence programme involves immersive on-the-job coaching with experienced industry experts, who’ve held senior operational roles in Energy and Utilities, and ‘worn the scars’ of the customer-focused teams they’re coaching - underpinned by weekly classroom activity.
- Empowers leaders to foster a high-performing culture, which drives exceptional customer outcomes and encourages career development
- Transforms leadership capability, equipping teams to bring a commercial edge to decision-making, and inspire each other to uphold exceptional standards
- Builds sustainable practices that leave a lasting impact on company culture, ensuring continuous improvement well beyond the programme
At BFY Group, we've been closely involved in transactions in and around the energy market over the past decade. This includes customer book sales and private equity investments, in areas adjacent to the energy market.
Ian Barker
Managing Partner
ESG and Sustainability Services
Transaction advisory and M&A support
Exit and investment readiness
- Using ESG and carbon emission audits to inform recommendations on your existing strategy, policies, systems, staffing, or reporting
- Helping you to shape the narrative ahead of sale, raising awareness of your achievements to date, the actions you’ve taken to mitigate risks, and any value creation opportunities
Buy-side advisory
- ESG, carbon and environmental due diligence, validating the target’s activities, performance measures, and impact to date
- Highlighting risks and opportunities, also identifying value creation pathways that could be realised post deal
Portfolio management
- Post acquisition integration and transformation roadmaps, baselining measures and validating the value creation benefit case
- Supporting with frameworks and methodologies to drive improvements in the business
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Meet the Team
Ian Barker
Managing Partner
Ian shapes the BFY vision and inspires our team to bring it to life, while remaining central to complex client engagements in Strategy, Commercial, and Operations.
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Angela Tooley
Head of Private Equity, Infrastructure & ESG
Angela specialises in the creation and implementation of growth strategies, as well as supporting clients through special situations, with M&A advisory, restructuring, and crisis management.
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Wade Robertson
Senior Consultant
Wade specialises in Transformation, Value Creation and Project Management, helping clients to identify and deliver on opportunities of significant value.
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Our Insights
Addressing the carbon reduction challenge in data utilisation
The technology and software sectors are a key driver of economic growth, attracting private equity and venture capital investment thanks to their scalability and high margins. Global tech spend is booming, forecasted to reach £3.6 trillion in 2024, so what’s the catch?
Carbon Emissions: Driving a meaningful reduction in your business
For carbon reduction to feel achievable, business leaders need clear direction on where to act (and how) to drive the most impactful efficiencies. With this clarity comes greater opportunities for cost savings, value creation, and investor attraction.
Materiality - The route to ESG value creation
An ESG materiality assessment is used to identify and prioritise ESG issues that are most significant to businesses and stakeholders, creating the path for meaningful impact that attracts investment. In this blog, we break down the elements of an effective ESG materiality assessment, and how it can be applied to bring value creation to life for businesses.