Materiality Assessments

Identify and prioritize issues that are the most significant for your business and stakeholders to achieve climate and sustainability goals, risk management, and financial success.

  • Sustainability

Analysis Solution

99%

of executives say their supply chains are already impacted by climate change.

Not sure where to start on your sustainability efforts? Materiality assessments help turn of sea of possibilities into a clear priority list.

Climate change isn’t just a technology challenge, it’s a people challenge. Whether you’re pursuing emissions reductions, water stewardship, or nature-positive solutions, ensure your investments are a success by prioritizing the ones that are backed by the most internal and investor support.

Case Study

Forging a Sustainable Legacy

HIROTEC AMERICA, a leading automotive supplier known for its innovative production solutions, has built its reputation on a forward-thinking approach to sustainable manufacturing. As a family-owned, medium-sized business, the company was motivated to build a sustainability legacy that supported their current employees, community, and future generations.

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They epitomized excellence, guiding us through challenges with grace and expertise, leaving an indelible mark on our journey toward environmental stewardship and business innovation.”

– Jon Kent, Sanctuary Farms

Key Benefits

Assess Stakeholder and Internal Needs

Establish Priority Areas

New Value Creation and Risk Reduction

Frequently Asked Questions

A Materiality Assessment is a process used to identify and prioritize the most significant sustainability issues relevant to an organization. Materiality assessments have evolved from a reporting exercise to strategic planning that determines where you focus limited resources. A materiality assessment delivers:

  • Strategic Focus: Identify which sustainability issues matter to your business performance and stakeholder relationships—eliminating wasted effort on low-impact initiatives
  • Resource Optimization: Ensure time, budget, and staffing investments target issues material to your industry and operations
  • Stakeholder Alignment: Systematically capture investor, employee, customer, and community priorities to inform strategy
  • Regulatory Readiness: Meet disclosure framework requirements (GRI, SASB, CSRD, TCFD) that mandate materiality-based reporting
  • Risk Mitigation: Identify emerging risks before they become crises—from climate impacts to supply chain vulnerabilities
  • Market Intelligence: Understand which sustainability issues your stakeholders view as business-critical

We engage with stakeholders using methods best suited to collect relevant data in a timely and comprehensive manner – usually through a combination of interviews and surveys. We then analyze the results to identify the most material issues for our clients, including areas of alignment or misalignment between the business and stakeholders.”

Double materiality is a concept that recognizes two dimensions of materiality. First, it looks at how environmental and social issues affect the company’s financial performance. Second, it evaluates how the company’s activity impacts the environment and society.

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Goal and Target Setting

We help organizations set targets related to greenhouse gas emissions reductions, renewable energy adoption, energy efficiency, water stewardship, water efficiency, ecological resilience, waste reduction, and other climate-related metrics, including establishing timebound science-based targets (SBTs).

Our goal is to help you understand the organization culture, operational environment, business drivers, and climate-related risks that are material to your organization. From there, we identify a set of focus areas that meaningfully tackle material risks and help advance your organization. Once these focus areas are developed, we establish baseline information so proper goals, targets, and programs can be established that align with your goals and objectives.