Materiality
The crucial question is not whether the climate, supply chain or employees are important. Rather, it is which topics actually influence your company, its stakeholders and its future.
We assess relevant topics, risks and opportunities in a structured manner and create a basis for the next decisions.
Discuss CSRD & ESRS
YOUR ORDER
You do not want to prioritise sustainability issues based on gut feeling, but rather evaluate them in a verifiable way. What is truly relevant for your business model, for the environment and people – and for your future?
We create a working basis for strategy, data work, communication and reporting.
WHAT WE DO
01
Understanding the business model and value chain
We consider products, services, locations, procurement, processes and relevant relationships in your value chain.
02
Capture topics in a structured way
We develop a tailored topic overview – from climate and resources to employees and the supply chain, through to governance and communication.
03
Assess impacts
We consider what positive or negative impacts your company can have on the environment and people.
04
Classifying risks and opportunities
We assess which sustainability topics can create financial risks or opportunities for your business model.
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Prioritise results
We make differences, open questions and potential conflicts of interest visible – and translate the results into next decisions.
HOW WE WORK
Clarify the framework and objective
We define whether the analysis is needed as a strategic basis, for a reporting project, or to focus existing activities.
Capture companies and topics
We consider the business model, value chain, existing activities, data and the relevant areas of interest.
Assess impacts, risks and opportunities
In structured discussions and work formats, we assess the topics from both an impact and a corporate perspective.
Prioritise and use results
We document the assessment and derive which topics require data, targets, measures, or more in-depth processing.
WHAT YOU GET
A comprehensible basis for concentrating sustainability work on the topics that really matter.
— A structured overview of topics
— Assessment of impacts, risks and opportunities
— A prioritised materiality matrix
— Documented decision-making bases
— Notes on data and responsibilities
— A clear next step sequence
— Connection to strategy and reporting
— Basis for internal coordination
FOR WHOM
For companies that do not just want to describe sustainability, but want to focus on the topics that actually matter.
For example, if:
For focused sustainability work: When topics should not just be collected, but prioritised according to their actual significance.
For strategy and reporting decisions: when it needs to be clear before a strategy or report what the work should be built on.
For cross-functional teams: When different perspectives from management, specialist departments and sustainability need to be brought together.
For CSRD and ESRS preparation: When material topics need to be structured as a basis for further processing.
CLEARLY CATEGORISED
A materiality analysis is no substitute for a carbon footprint, a strategy, or a report. Nor does it automatically decide on measures.
However, it creates the basis for ensuring that data, targets and measures contribute to the topics that are actually relevant to your company. For a complete, ESRS-compliant double materiality analysis, comprehensive stakeholder dialogues or the subsequent strategic implementation, we assemble the right team within CERTANIA Sustainability, including the Terra Institute and other specialists.
What is essential is not what is talked about the most. What is essential is what actually influences your company, its stakeholders and its future.
FIRST UNDERSTAND WHAT MATTERS.
Together, we will look at your business model, your topics, and the questions behind them. After that, you will know what your sustainability work should sensibly be built upon.
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