Building Performance within the ESG Landscape
Stakeholders are placing growing pressure on companies to demonstrate strong environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance. In many jurisdictions, finance-grade ESG reporting is now expected or legally required to meet investor, industry, and regulatory demands.
Yet for many businesses, implementing practical ESG governance and reporting frameworks remains a developing process. Dezan Shira & Associates offers customized ESG advisory across Asian markets, helping companies build global ESG strategies with localized execution. We assist clients through the full ESG lifecycle—from strategy design to regulatory compliance and comprehensive reporting—enabling businesses to meet evolving standards while strengthening long-term corporate resilience and stakeholder confidence.
Sustainability and ESG Compliance: Our Advantage
Deep sector capability in Asia
Industry-specific insight, regional networks, and hands-on experience to help companies build effective ESG compliance strategies
Integrated compliance expertise
Our expertise in finance, audit, controls, and accounting supports ESG strategies that go beyond pure technology implementation.
Full lifestyle ESG support
From strategy and implementation to training and system support, we provide end-to-end guidance through our on-the-ground teams across Asia.
How We Can Help Your Business
We take an ERP-level view of carbon use across your supply chain to identify the highest-impact reduction opportunities and track transformation across your organization.
- Carbon tracking by operation
- Emissions data integration
- Scope 1, 2, and 3 monitoring
We develop optimized pathways to improve the cost-efficiency of energy and resource usage in operations, supporting the shift toward emission-free and waste-free production.
- Cost-efficiency modeling
- Waste reduction initiatives
- Emission-free plant strategies
We help assess and report greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and carbon footprints in alignment with key frameworks such as the GHG Protocol—covering embodied carbon, avoided emissions, and methane tracking.
- GHG inventory and reporting
- Carbon footprint assessment
- Framework-aligned documentation
We support organizations in identifying long-term risks and disruptive events, and in planning resilience strategies to efficiently mitigate or adapt to environmental and operational stressors.
- Risk exposure assessments
- Scenario planning
- Resilience strategy design
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Learn more about the ESG Framework Landscape
ESG reporting is now a high-stakes business imperative. But unlike financial performance reporting, which is governed by clear expectations on format and content, the world of ESG reporting can be fragmented and confusing.
There’s a multitude of frameworks, each with its own requirements and supporting evidence, requiring complex calculations based on data that exists in different areas of your business.
If this is a challenge you’re facing, we believe you might like to explore this in-depth e-Book to learn about:
- Guidelines to assist with ESG reporting
- The ESG framework landscape
- Proposed approaches to take when selecting ESG frameworks
- Know how the future of ESG reporting is shaping up
Sustainability teams are constantly asking themselves: “how can we standardize and streamline ESG reporting? What's the best way to reduce effort with rigorous data-driven processes?”
When Downer – a major player in the engineering and infrastructure sector – set an ambitious decarbonization strategy, they had similar questions. The IBM Envizi ESG Suite made it possible for Downer to create a strong data foundation, which helped them set Science-Based Targets and report performance more accurately, faster and with leaner resource.
Read this case study to learn how Downer relies on IBM Envizi to capture and manage ESG metrics—energy consumption, waste, greenhouse gas generated—to deliver on its sustainability goals, along with reliable emissions accounting to support disclosures.
We recognize that it is a significant challenge for our corporate and institutional clients to package up their ESG-related data across the organization for internal and external reporting requirements.
Managing a higher number of ESG disclosures and greater numbers of stakeholders involved, in an increasing number of locations around the world, is challenging, even if they have a solid ESG data foundation already in place.
IBM Envizi ESG Suite can help to streamline ESG data management and reporting. IBM Envizi allows you to access all ESG performance data and maintain an emissions factor engine in a single, integrated platform. You can easily report to multiple frameworks such as SASB, GRI, TCFD, using this dataset and have a single repository of information.
The Green Quadrant report from Verdantix, provides a fact-based comparison of prominent carbon management software vendors. This assessment highlights the reasons why IBM had achieved the highest cumulative score for enterprise carbon management software.
As Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) practices evolve, businesses in Southeast Asia face complex regulatory landscapes. Staying compliant with ESG standards across ASEAN is now essential to remain competitive.
The ASEAN Exchanges—including Bursa Malaysia, Indonesia Stock Exchange, and Singapore Exchange—are collaborating to promote sustainable investments and enhance market appeal. This joint effort is driving new sustainability initiatives and broadening investment opportunities across the region.
To help businesses navigate these changes, our publication "Unlocking the ASEAN-6 | ESG Transition Overview 2024" provides comprehensive insights into the latest reporting requirements for six key ASEAN economies. The guide helps investors ensure compliance and maximize the value of ESG disclosures.
Case Studies and Insights
FAQs – Sustainability and ESG Compliance
We support companies at every stage of their ESG journey—from initial assessments to strategy design and reporting implementation. Our services include regulatory compliance, global standards alignment, ESG data infrastructure, stakeholder engagement, decarbonization planning, and training. With advisors across Asia, we provide cross-border ESG advisory tailored to both multinational standards and local reporting mandates.
We map clients’ operational and disclosure needs to global frameworks through a step-by-step advisory process:
- ESG gap analysis against selected frameworks (GRI, SASB, TCFD, ISSB)
- Development of customized reporting templates
- Governance and risk disclosure alignment with TCFD principles
- Ongoing support for framework updates and regulatory shifts
Yes. Many clients are under pressure to quantify emissions and communicate decarbonization plans. We help:
- Build GHG inventories (Scope 1, 2, and 3)
- Set near- and long-term carbon-reduction targets
- Benchmark against national and industry emission factors
- Integrate science-based targets into business roadmaps
Yes. Materiality is a foundational step in ESG strategy. We conduct dual materiality assessments based on GRI and EU CSRD guidance, incorporating:
- Internal and external stakeholder interviews
- Sector-specific issue mapping
- Risk/opportunity matrix building
- Workshop facilitation for leadership alignment
Timelines vary by scope, but a standard ESG reporting project spans 12–16 weeks:
- Weeks 1–2: ESG scoping and goal setting
- Weeks 3–6: Framework mapping and data model setup
- Weeks 7–12: Data collection, dashboard design, and reporting
- Weeks 13–16: Review, internal training, and disclosure release
We also offer phased rollouts for clients operating in multiple jurisdictions.
Yes.
- Mapping of upstream/downstream Scope 3 categories
- Vendor data collection templates and supplier engagement plans
- Emissions intensity analysis per region/product
- Creation of action plans and supplier code of conduct updates
This service is essential for firms integrating ESG into procurement and regional sourcing.
We offer customizable ESG training programs:
- ESG fundamentals and internal accountability
- Data collection standards and verification best practices
- Reporting system usage and issue- flagging protocols
- Sessions tailored to finance, HR, procurement, and compliance teams
This ensures internal capabilities are built alongside external reporting outputs.
We establish data governance structures that promote consistency and traceability:
- Use of cloud- based ESG data collection tools
- Pre- defined calculation methodologies and assumptions
- Audit trails for source data and user modifications
- Periodic internal reviews or third- party verification support
This process builds confidence in reported metrics, especially ahead of assurance requirements.
We’ve worked with clients in:
- Manufacturing and industrial goods
- Logistics and cross- border trade
- Technology and professional services
- Consumer goods and retail
- Education and nonprofit sectors
Each sector faces different ESG priorities, and we tailor our approach accordingly.
To begin, we typically require:
- ESG reporting goals and frameworks of interest
- Operational structure and geographic footprint
- Available data sources (e.g., HR, energy, procurement)
- Timeline, stakeholder access, and internal point of contact
We conduct a scoping call to clarify expectations, identify quick wins, and propose a phased ESG roadmap.
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