Transformation is not a Gantt chart; it is a transition path with a few critical decisions that make or break your future license to operate and compete. The art is to identify these critical paths—where technology shifts, regulation, customer expectations and physical climate risks intersect your business model—and then sequence change so that you move early where it matters most, without over engineering the rest.

Sustainserv helps you map out credible transition pathways, especially for climate: from today’s footprint to science based targets and net zero aligned milestones, grounded in sector specific decarbonization trajectories and what is known about effective corporate transitions. As a deliverable, you receive a concise but rigorous transformation roadmap: a visual transition pathway that highlights your critical path, the few no regret moves, lock in risks and time‑critical investments, with clear interim targets, decision gates, responsibilities and dependencies—so your organization knows not just where it is going, but what must change, in which order, to get there.

Why Climate Design? Reacting means responding to developments that have already occurred, often under time pressure and with limited scope for action, in order to limit risks or meet requirements.

Designing, on the other hand, means proactively shaping the framework conditions in such a way that future developments are steered in a desired direction and fewer crises arise in the first place. In companies, this difference can be seen, for example, in whether they merely respond to climate reporting requirements or whether they develop supply chains, standards, and partnerships at an early stage in such a way that emissions are optimized and become an integral, strategic part of value creation.

What we consider key elements of a climate design are →

Energy and Greenhouse gas emissions are a central benchmark for evaluating your company’s sustainability performance.  To effectively lower these emissions, you need a solid understanding of your energy consumption and other activities that generate direct or indirect CO2 equivalents.  We support you in gathering, consolidating, and analyzing your energy data and in preparing a robust greenhouse gas inventory.  In addition, we help you establish processes to manage energy use and emissions so you can systematically reduce your carbon footprint.

Science-based targets
Science-based targets are emissions reduction goals aligned with the latest climate science and the Paris Agreement.  To receive validation from the Science Based Targets initiative, companies must set targets grounded in robust data, reflect sector-specific pathways, and follow defined methodologies.  We support you in developing, calculating, and implementing suitable targets and in preparing your formal SBTi submission, positioning your company as a credible climate leader.

Life cycle assessment
Life cycle assessments (LCAs) reveal the full environmental impact of your products or services across all stages of their life cycle.  They help you identify hotspots and improvement potential so you can redesign products, services, and processes for lower environmental impact and higher resource efficiency.  We work with you to define the right LCA scope, select efficient methods, and conduct calculations in line with international standards.

ESG data has become the second balance sheet of your company. When environmental, social and governance numbers are managed with the same discipline as financials, they turn into a powerful steering tool instead of a reporting burden.

Sustainserv helps you build a coherent ESG performance system rather than a collection of spreadsheets. We work with you to design an ESG KPI and data model per material topic, align it with your strategy and regulatory expectations (such as CSRD/ESRS, GRI or SBTi), and streamline data flows from sites, HR, procurement, EHS and finance into a consistent, auditable dataset.

Where needed, we support tool selection or integration into existing ERP and BI environments, and develop dashboards for boards, management and operational teams that focus on decisions, not just disclosure. Metrics are anchored in double materiality and IROs, and the ESG data cycle is synchronized with financial planning, so performance can be monitored and discussed in the same rhythm as budgets and investments.

In short, you end up with a pragmatic ESG data and performance management setup that provides clear metrics, robust processes and decision‑ready insights on where you are on your transition path, where performance is drifting and where targeted action creates the most impact.

Understanding the sustainability of your supply chain is challenging, but it is also a powerful lever for value creation and resilience. Sustainserv helps you turn complexity into clarity and concrete action.

We work with you to:

• Map your supplier network, including critical upstream tiers, and identify where materials are sourced and how human and labor rights are upheld.
• Assess sustainability-related risks in your direct and indirect supply chain, focusing on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors that are financially and reputationally material.
• Design and prioritize mitigation strategies that reduce risk exposure, strengthen supplier performance, and support your corporate sustainability goals.
• Engage suppliers through targeted questionnaires, dialogues, and capacity-building so that sustainability expectations are clearly understood and implemented along the value chain.
• Typical Sustainserv deliverables for clients include:
  • A structured supply chain risk map that highlights high‑, medium‑, and low‑risk suppliers and regions, forming the basis for risk-based due diligence.
  • A set of practical supplier scoring criteria and dashboards that enable ongoing monitoring of ESG performance and progress over time.
  • Clear, prioritized action plans with mitigation measures, responsibilities, and timelines that you can operationalize immediately.
  • Input and language you can directly use in sustainability and regulatory reports to transparently disclose supply chain risks and responses.

By combining rigorous analysis with pragmatic tools and clear deliverables, Sustainserv enables you to understand the risk profile of your supplier network, demonstrate compliance where required, and leverage your supply chain as a driver of long‑term, sustainable value creation.

Nature Materiality Gap Assessment helps companies identify where their current view of nature-related impacts, dependencies, risks and opportunities falls short of what is truly business-critical under emerging standards such as TNFD and ESRS E4. It focuses on issues that can disrupt value creation, undermine the business model or create significant future liabilities if left unmanaged.

Our advisory service combines a structured double materiality lens with sector- and location-specific evidence from tools and benchmarks to surface overlooked nature topics along the value chain. We challenge existing materiality matrices to close the gap between what is reported today and the issues that could realistically “kill the company” tomorrow.

Typical deliverables include a concise diagnostic of your nature-related exposure by topic, geography and business segment, and a clear map of materiality gaps versus TNFD-, SBTN- and ESRS-aligned expectations. We provide a prioritized nature action and data roadmap, linked to governance, risk management and strategy processes, so you can integrate nature into core decision-making rather than treat it as a reporting exercise.