- Materiality Assessments
- ESG and climate risk assessments
- Sustainability Strategies
Our company
Everything we do is designed to inspire meaningful change in the world every day.
We are a global management consulting firm that works with companies to integrate sustainability considerations into their long-term strategies, everyday operations and communications. We believe the need for sustainable development presents tough challenges and at the same time exciting business opportunities to companies that strive to understand and improve their impacts.
What we believe in
Sustainable business practices are not just about environmental protection. Sustainability is a holistic approach that can generate value for your company, the environment and society as a whole. That’s why we’re working towards a world in which sustainable performance is the norm. We believe corporate sustainability should inform every business strategy, management process, performance metric and communication with internal and external stakeholders.
What we offer
We focus on understanding and managing the factors that drive your company’s value creation, and provide high-quality, strategic and practical support that enables you to integrate sustainability across your business and achieve your long-term objectives. Our engagements with clients are true collaborations—we share ideas freely, discuss the latest trends, and work with you and other relevant stakeholders to develop solutions.
Our approach covers all aspects of sustainable corporate value creation: from materiality assessments, sustainable strategy development and greenhouse gas accounting through to human rights due diligence, stakeholder engagement and GRI reporting.
Implementation + Monitoring
- Scopes 1, 2, 3 GHG Accounting
- Goal setting & Science-Based Targets
- ESG Data Collection & Analytics
Reporting + Communication
- ESG Reporting (GRI, CSRD, ISSB, TCFD)
- Ecovadis, DJSI and ISS Optimization
- Carbon Disclosure Project
Who we work with
Our clients range from regional companies to multinational corporations. They represent a wide variety of industries and come to us with all manner of challenges. What unites them is a desire to understand what sustainability means for their organization and how it can be implemented in a meaningful, efficient way.
Where you can find us
We have offices in Switzerland, Germany and the U.S. Our global presence enables us to stay informed about major developments in corporate sustainability, ensuring that we are always aware of the latest trends, best practices, policies and regulations.
What we contribute to sustainable development
Sustainserv believes in transparency and in being accountable to our clients, business partners and employees just as we encourage the companies we work for to do so themselves. In this spirit, the Sustainserv Integrated Sustainability Report 2020 describes what we contribute to sustainable development.
A brief history of Sustainserv
How it all began
Sustainserv was founded in 2001 by Bernd Kasemir, Matthew Gardner and Stephan Lienin. The three scientists met while working at some of the world’s leading universities: Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology). Our company was originally a spin-off from the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI), a leading energy research institute that is part of the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology Domain. Sustainserv was founded in Zurich, with our U.S. office in Boston opening soon afterwards.
In the early years, we focused on the development and management of programs that promoted sustainable mobility and green buildings. Our first consulting projects for private companies aimed to make the concept of sustainability tangible for members of the business community.
Sustainserv receives GRI certification
In 2006, we began providing expert assistance with sustainability reporting in accordance with the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) guidelines. We became a GRI Certified Training Partner four years later in 2010. Since then we have trained several hundred people in sustainability reporting.
Collaboration with universities
From 2007 to 2019, we worked together with the world’s leading universities, and were honored to play a key role in the development of the International Sustainable Campus Network (ISCN). This network has become a global hub for sustainability initiatives in higher education.
No. 1 Reporting Services Provider
Our rapidly expanding expertise in sustainability reporting and excellent track record meant that by 2016 we had contributed to 200 reports worldwide. Corporate Register even named us the global number one Reporting Services Provider.
New office in Germany
To better serve our clients and expand our reach, we opened a new office in Frankfurt, Germany, in 2019.
20-year anniversary
In 2021, we celebrated our 20-year anniversary. We are deeply proud of having played a significant role in ushering hundreds of companies around the world and in a wide range of industries to integrate ESG into their strategies, operations, and reporting. In conversation with the three founding partners, they look back together – and ahead.
