Sedex Launches Sustainability Consulting Solutions to Accelerate ESG Progress

Sedex announced a suite of ready-made solutions created to help companies successfully address key sustainability demands, and leverage these as opportunities for growth, risk reduction, resiliency and leadership through support from hands-on specialists.

“Sedex is uniquely positioned to lead on supply chain sustainability and due diligence,” says Audrey Clavedon, head of ESG leadership and consulting at Sedex. “Even the biggest companies need temporary support from specialized experts in these areas. We’ve developed solutions that complement our existing offerings, combining our consultants’ expertise with data insights drawn from the Sedex platform.”

Key takeaways:

• The new services comprise six ready-to-deploy solutions tailored to different corporate sustainability objectives, at set costs to offer a combination of specialist support and budget certainty. 
• The six consulting solutions entail: 

Regulatory Readiness: An assessment of the regulatory requirements that are potentially relevant to your business, along with a review of gaps in existing policies and processes to help your teams prepare. 

Climate Accelerator: Helps turn climate risks and complex regulatory requirements into strategic opportunities for collaboration and growth.

ESG Risk Assessment: Delivers robust sustainability risk mapping and analysis at scale to support compliance, resilience and strategic planning. 

Human Rights Due Diligence Accelerator: Aligns a business with the global human rights standards that underpin many laws, using an OECD-guided framework and implementation plan.

Sustainability Kick-Starter: Equips teams with foundational sustainability knowledge and creates alignment across a company and its value chain.

Sustainability Roadmap: Provides a strategic, phased plan to meet regulatory demands, align internal teams and embed sustainability into core operations.

• Each solution is designed to fill critical in-house capability gaps and unlock strategic value through proactive risk management, increased supply chain visibility and sustainability progress. They can be delivered independently or combined into a more in-depth, completely custom service.