UK's Role and Progress
Climate change is one of the most significant challenges facing organisations today. With the UK committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions and achieving net zero, organisations are under increasing pressure to understand their environmental impact, strengthen sustainability planning and demonstrate progress against their climate ambitions.
Eco SMART helps organisations assess their current level of climate maturity, identify gaps and opportunities for improvement, and build a clear roadmap towards their sustainability objectives. Through a structured assessment and practical recommendations, we provide the insight and assurance needed to support informed decision-making and long-term resilience.
Key Themes for Sustainability and Implications
Materiality and Accountability – Sustainability goals, practices and information must be relevant to primary users and reflect significant risks or opportunities that the organisation faces.
Integration – The sustainability ambitions must be embedded across strategy, operations and governance, rather than siloed to areas of interest or knowledge.
Local Flexibility and National Alignment – organisations are encouraged to tailor climate strategies to local contexts while contributing to national targets.
Funding and Capacity Building – Multi-year funding, regulatory reform and skills development are critical enablers to effectively deliver climate sustainability goals, within financial, knowledge and resource constraints.
How we can help you
We understand that the road to meeting your climate change objectives carries it’s own set of unique challenges for your organisation.
Our unique Eco Smart tool provides us with a framework to effectively evaluate your business plans, your journey, identifying gaps and areas for improvement to meet your goals in line with government expectations.
Our offerings
We provide a range of services tailored for the private and commercial sector
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our clients
Tiaa have been fortunate to work with over 1,000 companies across the UK and the world
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We have worked with Tiaa for a number of years and they provide us with a fully outsourced internal audit service. Our experience of Tiaa, and their team, is that they always seek to add value to the audit process, considering the bigger picture for our organisation and working effectively with our team and Audit & Risk Committee.
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