Issue 617 (Week ending 03/01/2024)

Welcome to 2024! A year where 'corporate sustainability' is likely to take centre stage in many boardrooms.

For many of our clients, an ESG assessment is one of the key pillars of their business activities in the next 12 months, in order to comply with the EU CSRD (Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive). Once the CSRD is fully implemented companies will need to be able to demonstrate a clear trail on how they track, monitor and engage with ESG. This statement will need to be filed with their annual accounts, and have data to back it up.

Greenwashing will be more difficult, with real measurable sustainability goals taking its place.

For businesses just like yours, it can seem an overwhelming task, to review the sustainability of not only their own operations, but their entire supply chain.

What do you need to ask? Where should you begin? How do you know what next steps to take?

For the most part, there seems to be a lot of uncertainty amongst companies in Ireland regarding ESG.

In order to support you and your organisation, Vision-net have created a product that will help you get a head start on your sustainability journey. Welcome to Synesgy.

With nearly half a million companies now using Synesgy, it is rapidly becoming the internationally recognised tool for assessing corporate sustainabilityand we are delighted that this is now available in Ireland.

This tool will provide you with a straight forward ESG questionnaire. With questions similar to those a sustainability expert or consultant may ask you on your business, to assess where your company is on it's sustainability journey and then provide a sustainability plan customized to your company.

Our Synesgy Certification will not only allow you to assess your company, but also company's you do business with if required, to ensure that you are acting in the most sustainable manner possible.

Synesgy will provide you with the armour you need to comply with CSRD, but generally on improving your corporate ESG. Our ESG experts will be on hand to provide you with advice on how to improve your sustainability efforts, to avoid any potential risks down the line.

In addition to this, once you are Synesgy Certified, you can use your cert in your tenders, sales proposals, websites as well as your credit reports, to attract green investments in the future.

ESG is no longer a goal, but an imperative. Join the 450,000+ companies empowering themselves with a sustainability certification and road-map today, with Synesgy.

If you would like to learn more or sign up today, simply email us at solutions.vision-net@crif.com or call Tel: 01 903 2660.