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Corporate Guides

Guidance on how to navigate and advance in the sustainable transition

CORPORATE GUIDES

Environment Analyst's Corporate Guides provide free recommendations from subject matter experts and seasoned environmental and sustainability advisers, to give corporations the insights they need to progress in the sustainable transition.

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Upcoming Guides:

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  • Delivering Sustainable Data Centres

  • Harnessing Nature for Long-Term Value

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Published Guides:

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  • Identifying & Remediating PFAS

  • Delivering Resilient Infrastructure

  • How to Implement CSRD, Reduce Risks and Drive Resilience

  • Net Zero and the Scope 3 Challenge

  • Embedding Nature for Business Resilience

  • Accelerating your ESG transition

GET INVOLVED WITH FUTURE GUIDES

Position your organisation as the go-to expert to our network of over 40,000 professionals worldwide by getting involved with our future guides.

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To discuss how to get involved contact simon.king@environment-analyst.com.

Reach our network of 40,000+ professionals

Engage with 50+ industries

75+ countries

GUIDE CONTRIBUTORS

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​This guide will share expertise on how to navigate nature reporting requirements, improve funding for infrastructure projects, and embed nature-based solutions for long-term value, risk reduction, and business and asset resilience.

 

Chapters include:

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  • Setting the scene – why Nature-based Solutions are becoming a business imperative

  • The fundamentals – what needs to be in place to implement and maintain a successful Nature-based Solutions project?

  • How to achieve successful engagement with stakeholders

  • Emerging approaches to Nature-based Solutions

  • A deep dive into regulations, including reporting requirements

  • Mitigating financial (social and brand) risks associated with infrastructure projects and assets through NbS

  • Practical case studies in different ‘nature’ environments:

    • Using nature to tackle climate resilience in citites​

    • Using nature to protect coastal systems

    • Using nature to protect water ways

    • Using nature to remove industrial pollutants

  • How biodiversity and nature credit markets could help accelerate progress

  • Finance tools as a driver to scale nature-based solutions

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HARNESSING NATURE FOR LONG-TERM VALUE

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DELIVERING SUSTAINABLE DATA CENTRES

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The growth of data centres is presenting a huge sustainability challenge, due to the unprecedented loads on grid capacity, water consumption and issues around site selection.

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This guide is aimed at corporates, particularly from big tech, cloud service providers, specialized construction vehicles and investors, and will provide tips on delivering sustainable data centres, from the site selection, design and community engagement phase, to running them in an energy and water efficient way, and ensuring resiliency.

 

Chapters include:

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  • The Importance of Site Selection

  • Planning Frameworks as a Tool to Meet AI Energy Demands

  • Enhancing Community Impact through Engagement

  • Maximising Energy Efficiency in New Installations

  • Designing Energy Resilient Data Centres

  • CCS for Data Centre Decarbonisation 

  • The Embodied Carbon Challenge

  • Optimising Data and Systems for Scope 3 Reporting

  • Embracing Nature-based Solutions 

  • Reducing Water Consumption​

  • Capturing and Reusing Heat from Data Centres

  • Integrating Digital Twins for Operational Efficiency

  • Limiting impacts on local communities and wildlife

  • Ensuring resiliency amid natural disasters

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Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances, or forever chemicals, have rapidly become one of the largest liabilities to both public authorities and privately-held asset and landowners. This guide showcases expertise and insider knowledge through thought leadership, case studies and best practice, to help organisations address and remediate PFAS.

 

Get insights on:

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  • A regulatory snapshot

  • Investigating the extent of PFAS risk exposure

  • PFAS sampling & analysis

  • Remediating PFAS in soils and water

  • Effective risk and liability communication

  • Remedial technologies and solutions

  • Removing PFAS from your supply chain​

IDENTIFYING AND REMEDIATING PFAS

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DELIVERING RESILIENT INFRASTRUCTURE

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With increasing risks from extreme weather events and nature depletion, it's more important than ever to ensure infrastructure assets are resilient. This guide provides ​expert advice and practical steps to help infrastructure asset owners and investors, construction and engineering organisations, and those that work in Federal, State and Local planning, permitting or policy, to deliver more resilient, sustainable projects.

 

The Guide includes tips on:

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  • Adopting nature-based solutions and nature positive infrastructure

  • Harnessing the potential of digital twins to maximise return on investment

  • How to measure, report and reduce embodied carbon in the construction industry

  • Improving ROI with natural capital and environmental net gain

  • Using the Nature-Positive Infrastructure Playbook for sustainable development

  • Making your project investable by embedding ESG throughout delivery

2025 will herald the arrival of the first sustainability statements prepared in accordance with the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD). Over 50,000 EU-based companies and approximately 10,400 non-EU enterprises are required to publicly disclose and report on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues.

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This Guide shares recommendations on:

 

  • How to mitigate risks associated with CSRD implementation

  • Best practice approaches to double materiality assessment

  • Strategies to overcome data collection and analysis challenges

  • How to maximise the opportunities of CSRD

HOW TO IMPLEMENT CSRD, REDUCE RISKS AND DRIVE RESILIENCE

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NET ZERO AND THE SCOPE 3 CHALLENGE

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By definition, scope 3 emissions are outside the direct operations of an organisation, so they are difficult to quantify and even harder to influence. Reporting and addressing these emissions brings an element of risk, making it all the more important to establish rigorous and transparent procedures to do so.

 

This Guide will help you to understand:

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  • The importance of carbon accounting

  • Which carbon reporting standard and frameworks to use

  • How to account for scope 3 emissions, understand the role of technology and deal with issues of data quality

  • How to use carbon offsets

  • How to move beyond scope 3 to 'avoided emissions'

Policy makers and businesses play a pivotal role in stabilising and restoring habitats and reversing biodiversity loss, not least because those habitats and species are critical to economic growth.

 

Emerging frameworks will see investors attach significant weight to the value of nature-based reporting and action to safeguard habitats. Meanwhile, asset owners are utilising nature-based solutions to develop resilience to climate change.

 

This Guide will help you:

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  • Understand how the COP15 Kunming-Montreal Agreement will impact long-term policy and business reporting

  • Prepare for the TNFD through the acquisition of data and the application of real methodologies

  • Embed natural capital accounting as part of the Natural Capital Protocol into your decision-making capabilities

  • Improve the funding and financing of construction and infrastructure projects using biodiversity credits and nature-positive approach

EMBEDDING NATURE FOR BUSINESS RESILIENCE

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ACCELERATING YOUR ESG TRANSITION

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Organisations of all shapes, sizes and industries must integrate environmental, social and governance (ESG) into their organisation, to secure financial investment, minimise risk and future-proof their long-term success. â€‹

 

This free guide provides an essential introduction to the complex world of ESG, to help you advance in your ESG journey.

 

This Guide will give you the insights you need to:

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  • Navigate ESG regulatory disclosure requirements and evolving standards

  • Safeguard your organisation from changing stakeholder pressure

  • Avoid the pitfalls associated with greenwashing

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