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Where to begin
The first step is deciding what matters, not writing a report. We run a materiality assessment to fix your scope, build a clean carbon baseline, and map which obligations land on a company like yours and by when. The ESG Readiness Finder on this site gives you a quick first read before any of that.
It turns on your size and whether you are listed. SGX-listed issuers face phased mandatory climate disclosure, and the net is widening to large companies over time. Even where it remains voluntary, lenders, customers and investors increasingly expect it. We will tell you plainly which obligations apply to a business shaped like yours.
A first report usually runs eight to twelve weeks from the point data collection begins, depending on how complex your operations are and how ready your records are. We agree a realistic timeline at the outset and hold it, so nothing creeps up on a publication date or AGM.
Frameworks & scope
It depends on your obligations and your audience. GRI is the broadest, most-recognised standard; ISSB (IFRS S1 and S2) is the global baseline regulators are converging on; SGX has adopted the ISSB climate requirements for listed issuers; SASB adds sector-specific, financially material metrics. We help you choose the right combination instead of over-reporting on everything.
Scope 1 is direct emissions from things you own or control, like fuel and company vehicles. Scope 2 is emissions from the electricity and energy you buy. Scope 3 is everything else in your value chain — suppliers, logistics, how your product is used — and is usually the largest and hardest to pin down. We focus Scope 3 effort where it genuinely changes the total.
Yes. A defensible greenhouse-gas inventory underpins almost everything downstream, so we build it carefully — to the GHG Protocol, with documented boundaries and Singapore-appropriate emission factors. That baseline then feeds your report, your climate-risk work and your decarbonisation roadmap.
Working together
Yes. Our assurance-readiness work reviews the metrics that will be assured, tests whether each can be traced back to source, documents methods and controls, and fixes weak spots before the assurer arrives. A mock walk-through rehearses the real engagement so it runs cleanly the first time.
Either, and usually a blend. Some clients want us to build the first report end to end and hand back a repeatable process; others want guidance while their own people do the work. We are glad to lead, support or train, and we always leave you able to run the next cycle yourselves.
Yes — measurement is the start line, not the finish. Our decarbonisation roadmap converts your baseline into a costed, ordered plan: targets the board can commit to, an owner for every action, and tracking that lets you report real progress each year rather than the same number twice.
We treat your operational and financial data as confidential and handle it under the PDPA, on a need-to-know basis within the engagement team. We sign a non-disclosure agreement as standard and return or destroy working data at the close of an engagement on request.

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