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Gunther Dütsch
Partner, Sustainability Services & Climate Risk at PwC Germany
Tel: +49 40 6378-2505
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Climate change is a problem whose solution cannot be postponed until tomorrow. Rather, it is an instruction for action today. Cooperation is required to achieve net zero. Because: net zero is not an individual project. For companies to succeed in reducing their own carbon footprint as close to zero as possible and also neutralise all remaining emissions, a holistic view of business operations along the entire value chain is required – from strategy to reporting.
To achieve true climate neutrality, companies must identify and prioritise their organisation’s impact on the climate. This means understanding where you are now, what your climate target is and what strategies will get you there. In addition, introducing management tools and reporting processes is essential in order to successfully move towards net zero. Use of new technologies and investment in innovation can also provide an additional boost towards net zero targets.
“It’s now or never: if we’re going to limit global warming to 1.5°C, we must push ahead with decarbonisation now in order to achieve climate neutrality no later than 2050. This requires a radical turnaround in the economy and applies across all sectors.”
We at PwC have pooled our strengths in a holistic approach to guide you on your way to net zero. Our community of solvers will help you to put sustainability at the heart of your company’s transformation, identify risks and seize new opportunities. Our goal: strengthen your company’s resilience in the long term, build trust and contribute to a future worth living. Let’s write a sustainable success story for your company together. Are you ready? We’re here to guide you through your net zero transformation in five steps.
Calculating your company’s carbon footprint in full is fundamental to drawing up a comprehensive, goal-oriented climate strategy. Using our experience, we can help you align your strategy with world-leading methodological standards such as the Greenhouse Gas Protocol. We don’t just focus on CO2 emissions produced by your own business activities (Scopes 1 and 2), we also include upstream and downstream activities (Scope 3).
When it comes to calculating your CO2 emissions, we use state-of-the-art tools while ensuring that your results are auditable from the get-go.
In the strategy phase, we draw on our extensive sector expertise and many years of experience to help your company realise its own climate protection interests, understand external requirements and develop a suitable strategy and target framework in line with climate science guidelines. We also advise you on how your business model should be adapted in line with the transformation to a sustainable economy.
In the transformation phase, we identify and prioritise suitable decarbonisation measures for your company, assess cost implications and advise you on the implementation.
Here you benefit from our broad net zero service portfolio, from which we put together the right measures for you.
In the implementation phase, we support you to introduce a holistic net zero governance and integrate it into your corporate functions, business processes and IT landscape. We strongly believe that each individual company needs a customised approach in order to implement and manage sustainability in all business activities, and thus successfully set a course for net zero.
When it comes to reporting and communicating climate activities, our focus is on helping you to ensure that you can always provide the right non-financial information on your net zero strategy in a timely and high-quality manner. As part of your sustainability reporting, we use our expertise in external reporting requirements to help you publish your climate information comprehensively. This allows you to make decisions faster and to provide market players the details on your net zero transformation. Verifying this information, as it has been a matter of course in financial reporting for decades, increases the trustworthiness of non-financial reports – both internally and externally.
Calculating your company’s complete carbon footprint.
We develop a suitable net zero strategy and target framework for you.
Together we compile the right set of decarbonisation measures for your company.
We help you to introduce a net zero governance.
We support you in providing relevant information as part of your sustainability reports.
Together with you, we realise the net zero transformation of your company in five closely coordinated steps. Our interdisciplinary teams with many years of experience are at your side in all phases. As a strong partner, we fully cater to the individual needs and challenges of your company and industry. In this way, we ensure that the transformation becomes a success factor for you.
“Sustainability should be at the core of modern corporate management: for companies, the path to success is also the path to climate neutrality. You can’t have one without the other.”
Andreas Feiner,Partner and ESG Data Lead at PwC Germany
Gunther Dütsch
Partner, Sustainability Services & Climate Change, PwC Germany
Tel: +49 160 3739019
