ESG Managers & Sustainability Teams
Automate sustainability data management, ensure compliance, and drive impactful decarbonisation efforts with streamlined insights and reporting.
ESG Managers & Sustainability Teams
Sustainability Teams and their senior leadership, including CSOs (Chief Sustainability Officers) and ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) Managers, are at the core of energy and sustainability management within an organisation.
They supervise critical operations such as ensuring sustainability/ESG regulatory compliance, strategy and policy development, future product/service compatibility, identifying growth opportunities, decarbonisation planning, and communicating all this internally and externally.
While this is a relatively new role/function for many organisations, they sometimes benefit from not having a large legacy of older software systems to replace or transition.
Key Responsibilities of ESG Managers & Sustainability Teams
Developing Sustainability Strategies
Creating plans to reduce environmental impact, improve resource efficiency, and enhance sustainability performance across the organisation, including around energy, waste, water, and carbon.
Compliance and Reporting
Preparing reports for internal and external stakeholders, ensuring compliance with relevant environmental regulations and reporting frameworks (mandatory and voluntary).
Data Collection, Analysis, and Quality Checking
Collecting, analysing, and quality checking data on energy consumption, waste generation, water usage, and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions across the business to identify trends and areas for improvement.
Project Management
Working closely with various departments (e.g. Operations, Finance, Procurement) to implement sustainability/decarbonisation projects and initiatives.
Budgeting
Managing budgets and resources related to sustainability projects and initiatives.
Stakeholder Engagement
Communicating sustainability initiatives and performance to internal and external stakeholders, including employees, investors, customers, and the public.
Common Challenges Faced by ESG Managers & Sustainability Teams
Data Management Complexity
You spend an excessive amount of time manually gathering, validating, and analysing energy and sustainability data from multiple sources such as spreadsheets, utility bills, metering, and building management systems (BMS)... and you’ve learned the hard way that manual processes are prone to human error.
Data Silos and Swamps
Your organisation’s proliferation of data silos, poorly-managed data lakes, and legacy systems contain a mix of software patches, workarounds, and poor design which make it difficult to extract any meaningful business value from the data.
Lack of Integration with Existing Systems
Because of a lack of seamless integration with existing systems and relevant data sources, you struggle to get a clear, consolidated, and timely view of sustainability performance across multiple sites and business units.
Limited Insights and Actionable Recommendations
You lack the tools and insights to identify the most impactful areas for improvement and track the progress of your organisation’s sustainability projects and initiatives.
Limited Resources
Generating reports for various stakeholders, including internal/senior management, regulatory bodies, and sustainability reporting frameworks can be very time-consuming and stressful due to limited resources.
Internal Resistance to Change
Overcoming resistance to sustainability initiatives from staff or other stakeholders who are reluctant to adopt new energy-saving practices or technologies can be a cause of frustration.
Budget Constraints
Securing buy-in for adequate funding of sustainability investments that may have a longer payback period can be hard, hampering your ability to implement improvement projects.
Key Concerns for ESG Managers & Sustainability Teams
Risk of Financial Penalties
Failure to achieve sustainability targets and non-compliance with evolving ESG regulations can have a significant risk impact on your organisation’s bottom line, especially in the medium term.
Reputational Damage
Your organisation could suffer negative publicity or stakeholder criticism if you fail to address sustainability issues effectively, leading to lost market share and increased PR crisis costs.
Falling Behind Competitors
Your organisation could lose a competitive advantage if it doesn't keep pace with sustainability best practices, including transparent access to audit-ready carbon and GHG emissions data for Scope 1 (direct emissions), Scope 2 (electricity/heat indirect emissions), and in some cases Scope 3 (supply chain and other indirect emissions).
How Can We Help?
At EnergyElephant, we believe that everyone can quickly achieve great sustainability outcomes without needing to be an expert, so we built a powerful but simple-to-use platform to make this a reality.
Our automated, data-driven approach allows you to spend less time and effort manually wrangling vast amounts of energy and carbon data, so you can focus more time and energy on actions that deliver actual carbon reductions, with significant cost and energy savings to boot.
[EnergyElephant] takes away the tedious work of entering details from energy bills into multiple spreadsheets. Its implementation is easy with the user simply downloading bills as they come in to create an instant snapshot of cost, carbon footprint and consumption in the organisation. Its dashboards are self explanatory and its reporting very detailed.