How organizations manage and integrate sustainability is a board-level issue – and opportunity.
Across a divergent and evolving landscape, WTW helps companies around the globe navigate complex regulatory and stakeholder environments and local legislation.
Whether developing a holistic, enterprise-level strategy and board governance structures, executing tactical sustainability-related programs or helping to embed and connect sustainability goals with daily efforts, WTW can help you address sustainability throughout your organization’s people, risk and capital strategies. With services and solutions that foster operational excellence and long-term sustainability, we help organizations worldwide to make informed, intelligent and integrated decisions.
An effective sustainability strategy needs discipline and focus to address your company-specific context and business strategy. Understanding strategic options and the interplay among them is essential to prioritizing resources and creating an actionable and impactful plan. There are many ways to get started — or continue — your efforts.
Climate risk and resilience
How can you assess, quantify and manage climate risks and opportunities?
Employee safety and security
How can you ensure the physical and psychological safety and support the wellbeing (physical, emotional, financial, social) of employees and their families?
Board effectiveness and governance
How can you develop an effective board with broad skills and the right culture that provides long-term stewardship of all people, risk and capital programs, risks and opportunities?
Transition analytics and planning
How do you transition your business model, organization structure and value chain to achieve business goals amid climate risks to ensure resilience and sustainable value over the long term?
Justice, fairness and equality
How can you uphold human rights and labor standards and also unlock the full human capital potential through a fair work environment and programs for all employees?
Sustainable investment
How can you best manage capital to drive improved financial outcomes by integrating sustainability into investment processes, capital allocation, portfolio construction and stewardship?
Employability and social mobility
How can you drive continued employability and upward social mobility by equipping employees with skills (up/re/cross) needed for tomorrow’s workplace?
Risk transfer and mitigation
How can you identify, assess, quantify and manage enterprise-wide risks and liabilities through insurance and mitigation strategies?
Workforce resilience and stability
How can you ensure a healthy pipeline, maintain sustainability of and efficiently deploy talent and skills so that employees can engage in work and be productive without burnout and extreme stress at work? How can you ensure the workforce is protected from and resilient to the effects of climate change?
Disclosures and targets
How can you use metrics, targets and robust governance structures (e.g., executive incentives) to ensure transparency and accountability while responding to regulatory disclosure requirements?
Learn more about sustainability
Sustainability encompasses a broad set of principles and topics. Any of which can impact the success of your company’s talent attraction and engagement, reputation and brand as well as your ability to deliver the business strategy and meet the expectations of colleagues, clients, shareholders, communities and suppliers.
WTW research shows that organizations committed to integrating sustainability and understanding its connection to long-term value for their business tend to be better run. It helps build brands and attract new customers and talent. They manage their risks more efficiently, freeing and attracting capital while reassuring investors.
Environmental
How responsibly a company performs as a steward of natural resources
