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Sustainability Reporting and ESG Disclosure Consultancy, for the UK

Delivering Clear, Compliant Sustainability Reporting and ESG Disclosures for UK Businesses

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At Changing Footprint, we provide expert sustainability reporting and ESG disclosure consultancy in the UK, helping organisations turn sustainability goals into transparent, credible and compliant reporting. Our specialists guide businesses through global frameworks such as GRI, TCFD and IFRS, ensuring your Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) performance is measured, verified and communicated with confidence.

We make complex reporting requirements clear, actionable and aligned with your business strategy — building trust with investors, regulators and all stakeholders.

What does Sustainability Reporting and ESG Disclosures Include?

Sustainability reporting covers how a business measures and discloses its impacts, risks, opportunities, and performance across key areas such as carbon emissions, resource use, employee wellbeing, diversity, ethics, and governance. A strong ESG report provides a clear link between sustainability actions and business strategy, detailing the company’s targets, metrics, governance structure, and risk management processes.

ESG disclosures are the public, standardised communication of these insights — are typically aligned with global frameworks such as GRI, SASB, TCFD, CDP, and the UN SDGs, and comply with emerging regulations including CSRD, ESRS, and IFRS. Together, ESG reporting and disclosures demonstrate accountability, transparency, and long-term resilience, enabling investors, regulators, and stakeholders to assess an organisation’s true sustainability performance.

How We Deliver Your ESG Reports & Disclosures

We follow a structured, collaborative process to ensure your ESG reporting is robust, relevant, and aligned with global frameworks and risk expectations.

Step 1. Organisation & Group Overview

We begin by mapping your corporate group — subsidiaries, operations and reporting boundaries — to ensure complete coverage and consistent data across your business.

Step 2. Materiality & Stakeholder Assessment

Through engagement with key stakeholders, we identify and rank material ESG issues based on business impact and stakeholder priorities.
This includes assessment of environmental and social impacts — from direct operations to supply chain and Scope 3 emissions — ensuring your focus areas reflect where your organisation creates and influences value.

This is also a good point to review the benefits of an Environmental Management System.

Step 3. Framework Review & Alignment

We align your reporting with leading frameworks and principles, including:

  • PRI (Principles for Responsible Investment)
  • GRI (Global Reporting Initiative)
  • CDP (Carbon Disclosure Project)
  • UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

This ensures your disclosures meet recognised global benchmarks and investor expectations.

Step 4. Regulatory Compliance, Risk & Scenario Analysis

We evaluate your obligations and opportunities within the rapidly evolving ESG regulatory landscape — and assess how environmental and market changes could affect your business model.
Our review covers:

  • IFRS & SASB Standards
  • EU CSRD & ESRS
  • TCFD & UK SDR
  • VSME guidelines

We incorporate scenario analysis to model how different climate or market futures may impact your operations, assets, and strategy.

This includes:

  • Transitional risks: such as policy changes, carbon pricing, shifting investor expectations, and evolving technology or market dynamics.
  • Physical risks: including the potential effects of extreme weather, rising temperatures, resource scarcity, and supply chain disruption.

Our team helps you understand these risks, test the resilience of your strategy, and identify adaptive responses that build long-term sustainability and financial stability.

Step 5. Benchmarking & ESG Ratings Review

We evaluate how your disclosures compare with global ESG rating systems, including:

  • EcoVadis
  • B Corp
  • Sustainalytics
  • MSCI

You’ll understand what these agencies prioritise, how you measure up against peers, and what actions can improve your positioning and credibility.

Step 6. Targets, KPIs & Performance Tracking

We help you define clear, measurable ESG goals and KPIs, aligned to your strategic priorities and emerging regulations.
This includes climate risk metrics, transition readiness indicators, and resilience measures tied to your scenario analysis findings.
We also help you establish data management systems and dashboards to ensure accuracy, comparability and assurance readiness.

Step 7. Governance & Working Structures

We embed ESG accountability across your business by supporting you to create:

  • A Steering Committee for strategic oversight and direction.
  • A Sustainability Working Group to coordinate data, actions, and reporting across departments.

These governance structures ensure that ESG — including risk management, scenario outcomes, and adaptation planning — is integrated into business strategy, board decision-making, and performance management.

Step 8. Regular Reporting & Review

We provide structured progress updates, interim reporting, and guidance as regulations evolve.
This iterative approach supports continuous improvement, resilience testing and timely refinement of targets, assumptions and risk exposure.

Step 9. Annual ESG & Sustainability Report

We produce a comprehensive Annual Sustainability Report that consolidates your ESG data, performance trends and narrative insights.
It clearly articulates how your organisation identifies, assesses and manages transitional and physical risks — and how your strategies align with climate-resilient business models.

Step 10. Public Disclosure & Communication

Finally, we prepare your public sustainability disclosure, aligned with stakeholder expectations.
This includes transparent commentary on challenges, data limitations, and ongoing risk management — helping your organisation communicate progress with credibility and integrity.

Why Choose Changing Footprint

  • Clarity in complexity: We translate global ESG standards and climate-risk expectations into practical, actionable insights.
  • Credible data: Assurance-ready disclosures built on verified, consistent, and auditable information.
  • Strategic foresight: Scenario analysis that informs real business decisions — not just compliance.
  • Resilience-focused: Integrated assessment of transitional and physical risks, ensuring long-term sustainability and stability.
  • Future-proof reporting: Continuous alignment with emerging regulations, investor expectations, and market realities.
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Frequently Asked Questions

An ESG report communicates how your organisation manages its environmental, social, and governance impacts — including how it plans for future risks and opportunities.
It supports compliance, strengthens investor confidence, and demonstrates strategic foresight.

Typical projects take 3–9 months, depending on organisational complexity, data availability, and reporting goals.
We customise timelines to fit your capacity and regulatory deadlines.

No. We identify which frameworks are most relevant to your sector, size, and geography — so your efforts are focused and effective.

We’ll help you gather verified data across operations, supply chain, workforce, governance, and emissions (including Scope 1–3).
Our team supports you in setting up systems for consistent and repeatable data collection.

Scenario analysis explores how different future pathways — for example, a 1.5°C climate scenario or rapid policy transition — might affect your business.
It helps test your strategy against uncertainty and identify areas of resilience, innovation, and risk exposure.
  • Transitional risks relate to shifts in policy, regulation, technology, and market expectations during the global transition to a low-carbon economy.
  • Physical risks arise from the direct impacts of climate change, such as extreme weather events, temperature shifts, and resource scarcity.

Both can affect assets, operations, and financial performance — and are key components of ESG and climate disclosure standards such as TCFD, CSRD, and IFRS S2.

Yes. We integrate both transitional and physical risk assessments into your reporting framework, supported by scenario analysis to evaluate how resilient your business is under different future conditions.

We prepare all ESG data and reports for assurance readiness, ensuring accuracy, traceability, and auditor compliance.
Where independent verification is required, we can collaborate with accredited third-party assurance providers.

Yes. We provide peer comparisons and ESG ratings analysis to show where you lead, where to improve, and how to strengthen your overall ESG position.

Absolutely. We craft both your annual sustainability report and public disclosure, ensuring your ESG story is transparent, balanced, and engaging.

Best practice is to review climate scenarios and related risks annually, or whenever major changes occur in operations, regulation, or market dynamics.
Our ongoing support ensures your ESG strategy remains relevant and resilient as conditions evolve.
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