Whether your company is just getting started, has had a major operational change or is looking to evaluate its current sustainability efforts, a baseline assessment is a critical starting point. It allows you to measure operational performance, compare yourself to industry competitors, identify new opportunities and discover solutions for improved social, environmental and governance performance. Our assessments include several components, which can be customized to fit your organization’s needs. To help companies and government better understand the changing context within which they operate, CENGSSUD has designed cutting-edge methodologies and tools for robust internal and external assessments, which are:

Through our gap analysis, we look at your current state, your desired state and work together to identify the steps needed to bridge the gap.

We work with you to compile your sustainability initiatives to date and glean your company’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats related to sustainability. Our analysis focuses on ways to harvest and drive business value.

Environmental impact assessments (EIAs) involve processes to identify, predict, evaluate and mitigate the negative biophysical and social impacts of development plans, while Social impact assessments focus specifically on measuring development’s impact (SIAs) to human communities. We conduct environmental impact assessments and environmental and social impact assessments to determine how your business activities are affecting your local community and on the wider environment. We offer a wide range of tests to ensure environmentally friendly products and services.

A carbon footprint analysis supplies real, quantitative data on your company’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions impacts and opportunities. We utilize methodologies provided by the World Resources Institute (WRI) and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), the recognized authorities on carbon inventories for business.

Life cycle assessment is the factual analysis of a product’s entire life cycle in terms of sustainability. With LCA, we can help you to evaluate the environmental impacts of your product or service from cradle to grave inline with the International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO) in ISO 14040 and 14044