Portfolio

Are your industry and your markets on a transformation path? We support you and provide specific services to ensure that sustainability becomes a strategic and consistent success factor for your company.

Strategy

The success of a sustainability strategy is determined at the level of the measures. This frequently consists of first systematically determining where sustainability-relevant processes and areas requiring action lie. We review your existing sustainability activities, your due diligence and transparency obligations and all relevant requirements of external stakeholders.

In addition, we develop and implement needs-based measures, check their financial viability and prospects of success and integrate sustainability management into the structures of your organisation.

Assessment, materiality, regulatory check, due diligence

How is your company positioned in the face of dynamic developments and increasing market demands for sustainability? Which obligations need to be fulfilled with care to meet all legal and external stakeholder requirements?

We review your status and your ESG obligations, risks and opportunities; identify gaps and areas where action is required; and develop pragmatic solutions for your business model.

  • Company analysis: sustainability-relevant processes, assessment of overall strategy and sustainability, SWOT analysis
  • Impact and risk analysis
  • Compliance: review of industry-specific and cross-industry regulations and standards
  • Environmental analysis: ESG developments in the industry & peers
  • Stakeholder analysis & interaction
  • Materiality process (double materiality test, process documentation for auditors, materiality matrix, etc.)
  • ESG due diligence in the context of transactions and M&As (in addition to technical & financial DDs)

Development of measures

Identifying, detailing and prioritising sustainability measures to optimise energy-, water- and waste-intensive processes as well as reliable reporting structures and methods requires technical expertise, a sense of sound judgement and competent advice.

Clients from various industries and municipal companies rely on our many years of experience in management consulting and on the engineering and financial expertise within the group.

  • Development of concepts and planning to save resources (water, waste, energy)
  • Feasibility studies in the specific company context
  • Preparation of transformation plans
  • Ex ante and ex post evaluation of projects
  • Design and planning of renewable energy generation (wind, water, waste heat, geothermal energy, etc.)
  • Development of mobility concepts

Financing advice & cooperation

Returns and risk are fundamental decision-making factors, even in the face of increasing and ever more specific sustainability challenges. We advise our clients on all aspects of financing their sustainability activities.

  • CapEx planning for ESG measures
  • CapEx, OpEx and revenue calculation and documentation within the framework of the EU Taxonomy Regulation
  • ESG controlling
  • Planning personnel costs and internal resources
  • Taxes
  • Funding advice
  • Co-financing/investments
  • Contracting

Implementing measures

Measures for more sustainable processes need to be thoroughly planned and their implementation professionally executed so that the costs of implementation and the desired effects are in line with the planning.

To this end, we utilise the expertise and many years of experience within the Tilia Group that our colleagues have collected and built up across various successful projects.

  • Efficiency measures at asset, portfolio and process level
  • Resource conservation measures (water, energy, waste)
  • Implementation of concepts for energy generation (wind, water, geothermal energy, etc.)
  • Energy-efficient refurbishment of buildings
  • Energy-saving measures for buildings in operation (TGA etc.)
  • Implementation of circular economy concepts
  • Photovoltaic solutions, PV greenfield
  • Implementation of digitalisation concepts (procedural, operational and administrative)

Data management, control & reporting

Data management is not done for its own sake. Reliable data forms the basis for decision-making for your company as well as for external clients and investors. It is used to create baselines, define controllable KPIs and measure the success of ESG measures along the relevant processes of your value creation model.
  • Data audit: Definition of necessary data; evaluation of existing data; identification of data gaps
  • Analysis of existing data collection methods, internal reporting lines and responsibilities
  • Identifying and leveraging potential for automation
  • Recommendations on data collection methods (data platforms and needs-based ESG software and tools)
  • Empowering employees in the use of software-supported ESG data management systems
  • Data visualisation (target group-specific dashboards, etc.)
  • Design and implementation of recognised (cross-industry & industry-specific) standards such as GRI, DNK, ESRS, IFRS, CDP, SBTi, GRESB, EPRA etc.
  • Consolidation of data and information from internal reporting for external reporting
  • Processing with auditors and standard setters (GRI etc.)
  • Supporting services – graphics, formatting, editing / translation

Governance & Organisational Empowerment

A clear anchoring of sustainability in the mechanisms of corporate management and control as well as management structures is crucial to the success of transformation processes.

However, the most important success factor remains the people in the company who see themselves as part of the transformation and solution path.

  • Integration of ESG criteria into existing risk and compliance management systems
  • Integration of ESG criteria into fundamental company guidelines (Code of Conduct, environmental guidelines, DEI guidelines, etc.)
  • Advice and training for management and supervisory bodies (management boards, supervisory boards, etc.)
  • Definition of responsibilities in ESG-relevant processes and parts of the company
  • Formation and support of ESG committees and working groups
  • Cross-departmental organisation, communication and documentation in sustainability management
  • Empowerment and training of employees on ESG-relevant content and tasks within their areas of responsibility
  • Recruiting and enabling new sustainability officers for internal sustainability teams

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