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ESG Strategy and Governance

 “The line between corporate governance and strategy is a fine one. Increasingly, strategy is a legitimate question for shareholders.” – Nell Minow, Vice Chair, ValueEdge Advisors 
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• Benchmarking current ESG practices and disclosure against industry peers and/or best practice
• Materiality assessment
• ESG/sustainability strategy development and implementation
• ESG governance 
• Gap assessment of current governance policies and practices against peers and/or best practice
• Identification and disclosure of climate change risks and opportunities
• Key performance indicators
• Policies and procedures
• Integration of ESG factors in corporate strategy and risk management processes

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ESG Integration

 “Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.” – Warren Buffett, CEO, Berkshire Hathaway
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• ​ESG program maturity assessment and advancement
• Policy, process, and management system integration and performance improvement
• ESG education and training for boards and senior management
• ESG workshop facilitation for boards, senior management, employees and other stakeholders.
• Stakeholder engagement and communications
• ESG training for employees, industry associations, professional associations and universities
• Research support on ESG-related issues
• Writing grant applications for provincial and federal renewable and other ESG-related grants
• Climate change risk assessment
• Development of ESG commitments, metrics, and targets
• Non-financial assurance readiness assessment

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ESG Reporting and Disclosure

“Because better sustainability disclosures are in companies’ as well as investors’ own interests, I urge companies to move quickly to issue them rather than waiting for regulators to impose them”- Larry Fink, CEO, BlackRock
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• Gap assessments between existing disclosure (voluntary and non-voluntary) ​and key ESG reporting frameworks
• Review of internally-developed draft content for ESG reports
• Content drafting for ESG reports
• Support on reporting in alignment with SASB, TCFD, GRI, CDP, and other reporting frameworks and schemes
• ESG rating agency review, interpretation, and support
• Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) implementation, reporting, and assessment

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ESG "Social" Performance Support

 “Society gives each of us a license to operate. It's a question of whether society trusts you or not.”- Alex Gorsky, CEO, Johnson & Johnson
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• Indigenous and community engagement strategy and implementation
• Benchmarking social sustainability factors against industry peers and best practice
• Community investment strategy and implementation
• Diversity, equity and inclusion
• Project financing - Equator Principles (EP4) – compliance, review and drafting required environmental and social risk compliance documents
• Equator Principles and human rights assessments

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ESG Auxiliary Support

 “Your support network is the solid ground from which you can propel yourself upwards" - Anna Barnes, Author, How To Be Resilient
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• Partnering with your internal ESG teams to help manage and advance your ESG initiatives
• Act as your outsourced, "pop-up" ESG team to jumpstart or advance your ESG performance
• Bespoke ESG support as and when needed, including regulatory support and government relations, supply chain ESG strategy, ESG policies and procedures, management system integration, and other ad hoc support

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Environmental Social Governance (ESG) Law

“What separates the ESG efforts of today from corporate social responsibility (CSR) efforts of the past are legal requirements that hold companies to their promises to use their businesses to do good.” (American Bar Association)
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​ESG related practice in the following areas:

• Regulatory compliance, permitting and project approvals, including administrative hearing representation  
• Health, safety and environmental matters
• Advising boards on governance matters including director’s responsibilities, competent boards, board composition, executive and board compensation, stakeholder engagement, public disclosures, business ethics, and privacy matters
• Integrating ESG in M&A due diligence reviews
• Human rights and employment matters
• Litigation and dispute resolution

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Indigenous Relations Services

“In our every deliberation, we must consider the impact of our decisions on the next seven generations.” (Iroquois maxim)
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• Indigenous engagement based on trust, respect and mutual understanding
• Indigenous project consultation
• Indigenous investment consultation
• Indigenous legal and regulatory advice, opinion and representation 

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