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6 THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT ESG DATA MANAGEMENT

Crux Oct 11, 2023

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There’s an old saying: “What gets measured gets managed.” This sentiment
represents the foundation of ESG best practices. The best practices are
challenging to achieve, however, without effective external-data integration.

Recently, Strategic Finance Magazine interviewed our Chief Revenue Officer,
Patrick Ball, on this topic for an article on ESG data management. Here are some
of the highlights from that interview:

Data governance solves for greenwashing and greenwishing

Greenwashing—overstating ESG practices and successes—does happen. But even when
organizations have their hearts in the right place and aren’t greenwashing their
ESG commitments, they often may be committing greenwishing—that is, setting an
ambitious ESG goal (e.g., “carbon-neutral by 2030”) without any clear roadmap in
place to achieve it.

The problem lies in a lack of data—or, at least, easy access to usable data. The
G in ESG stands for Governance; this includes data governance. At the outset of
any ESG initiative, organizations should start by putting strong data-governance
processes in place. From there, using data, they can assess the following:

 1. Which component of ESG it makes the most sense to work on
 2. What relevant processes the organization has in place today
 3. How the organization can work backwards from its end goal

To do any and all of this, an organization needs to be able to easily access—and
easily manage—analytics-ready ESG data (much of which will come from third-party
sources).

Governance means direct involvement from the C-suite

Even beyond the CEO and the board, senior leadership must drive ESG
data-governance efforts from the top down.

ESG strategy relies heavily on data. As such, leaders such as CTOs (chief
technology officers), CSOs (chief security officers), and CIOs (chief
information officers) should be involved in establishing an ESG data-governance
framework. Additionally, larger companies may have more-specialized roles with
their own crucial role to play in ESG efforts, such as a Chief Data Officer or a
Chief Sustainability Officer.

This being said, CFOs represent the perfect advocates for ESG because of the
critical role they play in organizational reporting. Given CFOs’ focus on the
long-term financial sustainability of an organization, they can document and
report how ESG efforts will impact an organization’s risk—a factor in capital
access.

CFOs can also help stakeholders understand the value creation and cost savings
from ESG efforts.

ESG matters to the bottom line

Reputational risk is real, and it’s not just anecdote-driven speculation to hype
up ESG. Research demonstrates that companies have a lot to gain—or lose—when it
comes to ESG.

 * According to McKinsey research, there’s a significant correlation between
   resource efficiency and financial performance; rising operating expenses of
   the kind substantially reduced through ESG efforts can affect operating
   profits by as much as 60 percent.
 * According to a study by Unit4, 20% of employees believe their company is
   perceived to have poor ESG credentials—adversely impacting talent acquisition
   and retention.
 * A study by MarshMcLennan demonstrated that strong ESG performance can help
   companies improve employee satisfaction and attract prospective
   employees—ultimately driving competitive advantage.
 * According to PwC, 76% of consumers say that they would discontinue
   relationships with companies that treated the environment, employees, or the
   surrounding community poorly.

External-data integration matters to ESG

ESG is hard, and external data is hard. But the more data organizations
integrate, the more they can monitor and manage processes in real-time to avoid
spiraling costs on the path to ambitious ESG targets.

The volume of ESG data available can be overwhelming. A good place to start is
by integrating core datasets from well-established ESG data providers.
Organizations can then identify what gaps they need to fill with more niche
datasets tailored to company needs.

Digital transformation and emerging tech make ESG-data integration easier and
faster

Cloud migration and advancements in data-integration technology have made it
easier for organizations to ingest and analyze a high volume of ESG data more
efficiently. Qualitative ESG data—such as text in a Task Force on
Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) report—is especially cumbersome to
analyze.

Moreover, automation is enabling enterprises to extract and interpret this data
with greater speed and accuracy. In turn, more analytics-ready data means more
insights to assess gaps in ESG efforts and fuel new strategies.

The result is what we call data-integration maturity.

ESG-data maturity drives scalability

Across industries, organizations are taking a more data-driven approach to ESG
with improved measurement, analysis, and disclosure of ESG metrics. 

We like to think of this growth in terms of a data-integration maturity curve.



In companies with the most advanced level of data maturity, leadership is
brought into ESG-data integration, and the organization can scale its data
operations while balancing costs with ROI. These organizations have reached a
point where ESG data is embedded in their operations. As a result, they are able
to provide stakeholders with transparent, evidence-based decisions around ESG.

At the opposite end of the spectrum are organizations with low data-integration
capabilities. These organizations have an ESG vision on paper—but no data team
or architecture to implement data integration. For low-maturity organizations,
the quickest way to scale ESG DataOps is often to outsource to a vendor.

To learn more about Crux’s data-integration offerings, download our white paper
on ESG data challenges here—or, if you have questions, reach out to us here.


CRUX



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