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Your Partner in Credible Sustainability: Preparing Your ESG Strategy for Third-Party Assurance.
In an era of evolving regulations and investor scrutiny, your sustainability narrative must be more than aspirational—it must be verifiable. We at CEAN Global help you move beyond developing specific ESG strategies to preparing for the rigorous demands of ESG assurance. Our guidance helps you mainstream sustainability across your organization, ensuring your data, processes, and reporting are robust and credible in the eyes of investors and regulators.
How Our Guidance Prepares You for Assurance
We shift the focus from a general "roadmap" to building an auditable ESG framework. Our advisory is structured to help you embed the discipline and data quality needed to successfully undergo third-party assurance.
Establish a Credible Reporting Framework
We guide you in building transparent, investor-grade reporting frameworks aligned with global standards like TCFD, ISSB, and GRI. Our focus is on ensuring the verifiability of your data and the consistency of your disclosures, which are essential for assurance. We help you define and track the specific metrics that investors demand, such as carbon intensity, renewable energy share, and energy efficiency improvements, in a way that is ready for external validation.
Design Governance and Accountability Structures
We assist you in establishing and strengthening the governance structures necessary for proper oversight of climate and ESG issues. This includes integrating climate risk management into your enterprise risk frameworks and creating clear escalation mechanisms. The goal is to build an internal system with clear roles, responsibilities, and data ownership, which are key components that an assurance provider will examine.
Integrate ESG across Your Value Chain for Data Integrity
We help you embed sustainable practices across your entire value chain, but with a specific focus on data collection and integrity. This involves guiding you on how to capture and manage data from suppliers and distributors to ensure it can be reliably included in your reporting and, subsequently, assured.
Understand Assurance Expectations
Our guidance prepares you for the specific requirements of ESG assurance. We help you understand what an auditor looks for—from the accuracy of your emissions calculations to the credibility of your targets—so your organization can collect the right evidence and build a strong narrative supported by reliable data.
Why Assurance Readiness Matters
Investor Expectations
Global capital markets increasingly require third-party verification of ESG data and science-based transition plans. Our guidance helps you meet these demands, ensuring continued access to sustainable finance.
Regulatory Pressure
With mandatory disclosure requirements under frameworks like the EU Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), sustainability reporting standards, and Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) and ISSB Standards, preparing for assurance is no longer optional.
Enhanced Credibility
By preparing for assurance, you signal to stakeholders that your ESG claims are trustworthy. This builds a reputation for transparency and accountability, which can be a significant competitive advantage.
Sector-Specific Guidance
We provide tailored guidance for different sectors to help them prepare for assurance, focusing on the specific data points and verification processes relevant to each industry:
Agribusiness & Forestry
We guide you on how to collect and verify data on emissions reductions and climate-smart practices to ensure your claims are assurance-ready.
Manufacturing
We assist manufacturers in setting up data collection systems to track decarbonization efforts, ensuring that their Net-Zero strategies meet the verification demands of global buyers.
Energy & Infrastructure
We help energy and infrastructure companies establish robust data management systems to track and report on emissions, renewable energy penetration, and climate resilience, preparing them for external assurance.
Financial Institutions
We equip financial institutions with the frameworks and tools needed to ensure their portfolio-level ESG data is auditable, allowing them to channel capital into sustainable projects with confidence.
Services
We provide guidance to service-sector organizations (such as education, health, and tourism) on how to track, manage, and verify data related to their environmental footprint and social impact to meet the growing demand for credible reporting from stakeholders and investors.
With CEAN Global as your partner, your organization moves from ambition to accountability. We ensure your ESG reporting is not just a declaration but a measurable, transparent, and verifiable document that unlocks sustainable financing and future-proofs your business.