The international sustainability and responsible business consultancy.
 
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What we do

We help some of the largest and most advanced companies in the world to adapt, thrive, and grow in an increasingly volatile world

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Putting sustainability at the heart of our clients’ operations

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Driving business value

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Positively contributing to the wider world

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Who we work with

We work with future focused businesses

We work with world-leading companies across food and beverage, FMCG, retail, apparel, pharmaceutical and other industries. We partner with our clients to navigate complex sustainability challenges, anticipate change and co-create new solutions

 
 
 
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What we deliver

  • • Materiality and double materiality assessments

    • Vision and framework development

    • Target and KPI setting

    • Roadmaps and implementation plans

  • • Internal senior level training and engagement 

    • External stakeholder engagement

    • Employee sustainability training

    • Supplier and customer workshops and events

  • • ESG risk analysis

    • Deep dive risk assessment on topics, countries or commodities

    • Regulatory landscape review

    • Implementation of ESG regulation

  • • Policy development

    • Thematic strategy and roadmap development

    • Climate transition plans

    • Sustainable procurement and supply chains

    • Legislation and data prioritisation, gap analysis and disclosure mapping and advice

  • • Sustainability and ESG Reporting

    • ESG disclosure

    • Sustainability communications and claims support

  • • Market insight research and communications

    • Peer and competitor benchmarks

    • Consumer insights

 
 
 
 
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Our areas of expertise

 
 
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Our thinking

Articles and reflections

Featured
The climate delay trap: why don’t we act on the most important risks?
Carbon Emissions, CLIMATE DISCLOSURE
Benjamin Sobel
The climate delay trap: why don’t we act on the most important risks?
Carbon Emissions, CLIMATE DISCLOSURE
Benjamin Sobel

Every year ahead of Davos, the World Economic Forum (WEF) produces its Global Risk Report, surveying senior leaders on the biggest threats over the next two years and ten years.

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Carbon Emissions, CLIMATE DISCLOSURE
Benjamin Sobel
Beyond the bubble: can AI boost work without dulling skills or destroying the planet?
AI, EMISSIONS, Carbon Emissions, INNOVATION, NEW MODELS
Benjamin Sobel
Beyond the bubble: can AI boost work without dulling skills or destroying the planet?
AI, EMISSIONS, Carbon Emissions, INNOVATION, NEW MODELS
Benjamin Sobel

Every breakthrough technology forces trade-offs. The printing press spread knowledge but also propaganda. The car unlocked freedom and guzzled carbon. AI will do the same, and (with mass adoption) faster. So, how do we capture its benefits without surrendering judgement?

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AI, EMISSIONS, Carbon Emissions, INNOVATION, NEW MODELS
Benjamin Sobel
Climate strategy: decarbonisation, climate risk and transition planning
SUSTAINABILITY STRATEGY, NET ZERO
Kiran Rayner
Climate strategy: decarbonisation, climate risk and transition planning
SUSTAINABILITY STRATEGY, NET ZERO
Kiran Rayner

This article aims to clarify the increasing level of confusion around what should be included in climate strategies and which frameworks relate to the different aspects.

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SUSTAINABILITY STRATEGY, NET ZERO
Kiran Rayner
Risks at sea: the impact of seafood supply chains
NATURE, OCEAN HEALTH
Susannah Cooke
Risks at sea: the impact of seafood supply chains
NATURE, OCEAN HEALTH
Susannah Cooke

Seafood is one of the world’s most highly-traded commodities; 3.3 billion people rely on fish products as their primary source of animal protein, and demand for seafood is expected to nearly double by 2050. This article will look at some of the biggest challenges and risks for businesses and the opportunities to set new norms and uphold the integrity behind ‘responsibly sourced’ seafood. 

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NATURE, OCEAN HEALTH
Susannah Cooke
Reflections from one year of double materiality assessments
CLIMATE DISCLOSURE, ESG, DOUBLE MATERIALITY
Emma Ryan
Reflections from one year of double materiality assessments
CLIMATE DISCLOSURE, ESG, DOUBLE MATERIALITY
Emma Ryan

While sustainability materiality assessments have been a core part of BRODIE’s service offer since the beginning, February marks one year since we completed our first ‘double materiality’ assessment as required by the EU’s Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD). This milestone has inspired me to share some of our key learnings from working with a number of partners (and at least three iterations of the EFRAG double materiality guidance) over the past 12 months.

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CLIMATE DISCLOSURE, ESG, DOUBLE MATERIALITY
Emma Ryan
Where are businesses getting stuck on nature?
IMPACT, SUSTAINABILITY STRATEGY, NATURE
BRODIE Consulting
Where are businesses getting stuck on nature?
IMPACT, SUSTAINABILITY STRATEGY, NATURE
BRODIE Consulting

The state of nature was a dominate theme of the Anthropy 2023 conference. The conference provoked much discussion on the importance of the private sector’s role in protecting and restoring nature. Business and environmental NGO speakers pointed to hesitation from some corporates towards ‘nature-positive’  business strategies and how this can be overcome. This blog explores what I heard.

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IMPACT, SUSTAINABILITY STRATEGY, NATURE
BRODIE Consulting

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