Sustainability Assessment Platform

ESG refers to a wide range of Environmental, Social and Governance topics. It is commonly used interchangeably with the term “Sustainability.” 
Investors are increasingly considering these ESG factors in their investment decisions as many believe they are predictive of long-term, risk-adjusted returns. Investors might want to know about how much electronic waste or packaging and material waste a company produces and how the company plans on reducing that waste. From a social perspective, Investors want to know the percentage of gender and racial/ethnic group representation for management and all other employees.

Companies are disclosing their ESG efforts in a variety of formats with many companies producing a standalone sustainability report annually.

The SASB framework is broad-based and recommends topics and metrics for 77 different industries across all three pillars of ESG. These frameworks provide guidance on how organisations can align their reporting with investors’ needs and gather standardised data.
The TCFD framework provides recommendations for consistent climate-related financial risk disclosures focused on the physical, liability and policy risks associated with climate change across industries.

Web application and web service is hosted on PwC Managed Azure Virtual Machine which is protected as per Network Information security policies. Azure managed MySQL database instance (PaaS) is hosted on the same machine and is managed by Microsoft Partners. Platform is onboarded on Web application protection (WAP) services which provides the firewall protection for internet facing applications. SSL certificate procured from PwC NIS is installed to ensure the data security in store and transit

Yes, Sustainability Assessment Platform provides custom questionnaires at an entity-specific level with respect to the sector of the organisation. The standards currently available are SASB,TCFD and WEF.