Case Study
Sustainability &
ESG Reporting
Inolex
The Situation
Almost all of the world’s largest companies issue a sustainability report and set goals. In fact, by the end of 2022 companies with SBTi-validated emissions reduction targets represented more than a third of the global economy.
As sustainability and ESG have matured, focus has shifted from operations to the entire value chain. This means that regardless of where a company sits in the corporate ecosystem, its actions, measurement, and management of ESG issues matters.
Inolex, a specialty chemicals manufacturer, sought to advance its non-financial disclosures and develop its second GRI-referenced sustainability report to help improve its EcoVadis and CDP rankings.
“Longview has been extremely helpful in this pivotal period of bringing more standardization, structure, and professionalism into our sustainability program…Longview helped to distill it down to actionable first steps.” – Inolex
Our Approach
With a materiality assessment and inaugural GRI-referenced report completed the previous year, it was important to identify efficient and cost-effective next steps to advance the company’s ESG maturity.
We began by performing a screening-level ESG review to identify Inolex’s primary risks and opportunities related to its material topics. The result of this exercise produced a gap analysis which showed where the company could establish and implement policies, procedures, and controls related to key ESG issues.
In collaboration with internal stakeholders and company leadership, we helped establish and populate the company’s “Policy Center,” which categorizes relevant polices under the E, S, and G pillars.
Not only did the these policies and procedures provide a roadmap for day-to-day operations related to sustainability functions and ensure compliance with company expectations and values, they also served as foundational elements for the 2022 sustainability report.
In addition to developing the report’s GRI and SDG indices, our project management and ongoing counsel in the reporting process streamlined data gathering, content development and report production.