What We Do
Read below and contact Josh Dowse to find out more about any of our services:
- sustainability / CSR strategy
- ESG / Responsible investment
- Climate change and carbon strategy
- Facilitation and training
- Concept development and project delivery
- Stakeholder engagement and communication
- White paper and public reporting
- Sustainability / ESG reporting
Sustainability / CSR strategy
We help answer what social and environmental issues your company should engage on, how and with whom, to benefit that issue and your business.
Our sustainability strategies and actions are designed to directly assist immediate business objectives, while building the assets and capabilities that generate future value. We work with you to:
- identify and pursue profitable opportunities,
- manage risks,
- design and assess sustainability strategies, including carbon and climate change strategies,
- integrate them with existing organisational strategies and values,
- use our proprietary Sustainability Value tool to demonstrate to investors and management the real economic value of ESG/sustainability actions,
- develop meaningful KPIs and measures,
- articulate the strategy,
- target relevant indices and awards, and
- build capacity.
ESG / Responsible investment
Because Dowse CSP understands the value that ESG can offer a business, or cost it, we are ideally placed to with portfolio construction, data, due diligence and review. We work with you on:
- ESG investment principles, processes and decision tools that are integrated into traditional investment processes,
- ESG assessment data,
- commitments under the Principles of Responsible Investment,
- investor engagement,
- ESG governance within broader corporate governance.
Stakeholder engagement and communication
Is your engagement what’s needed for the changes you’re looking for? We work with you on:
- articulating ideas and research in ways your stakeholders appreciate them
- major text-based documents, including public reports
- change communication strategies and actions
- identifying and managing stakeholder issues
- preparing for particular audiences and events
Climate change and carbon
Climate change is the ESG issue of the moment, and it could be a very long moment. Dowse CSP sets climate change or carbon strategies that are low emission and sustainable. We work with you on:
- climate change policy and emerging regulation,
- carbon measurement and footprints, emission reductions, abatement and offsets,
- ‘carbon neutral’ and ‘carbon positive’ strategies and verification,
- emission trading opportunities,
- voluntary and compliance approaches and evaluation.
Facilitation and training
If your team needs to better understand a critical issue, we can work with you to bring that issue to life. We specialise in:
- determining and delivering your needs
- proven and tailored workshops in writing and communications
- proven and tailored workshops in sustainability and ESG
- proven and tailored workshops on climate change and carbon markets
- lunchtime or breakfast discussions
- breakthrough combinations of seminars, workshops, readings and imaginative events
Projects and partnerships
Dowse CSP invests in sustainable opportunities, and sets up and manages initiatives as part of a broader sustainability strategy. We work with you to:
- invest in opportunities that address environmental or social issues,
- kick-start initiatives with reliable partners,
- establish metrics and governance systems,
- establish research, community, NGO and corporate partnerships,
- provide ongoing partnership management and administration.
Sustainability /ESG reporting
If you decide to report on your sustainability, and that’s a big ‘if’, you need a clear appreciation of why you’re doing it, what readers are really looking for, and how best to deliver that. We work with you on:
- reports as part of an existing or needed stakeholder engagement strategy,
- establishing relevant ESG/Sustainability metrics,
- reporting to GRI and international standards,
- report facilitation and coordination, report writing and publication,
- related stakeholder communication and release strategies.
White papers and public reporting
If you've got something important to say, you've only got one shot at saying it well. Dowse CSP has assisted government bodies, business consortia, government-business partnerships, NGOs, businesses and national and international consultancies deliver their thinking to stakeholders in the best possible shape. This takes more than a wordsmith, but an experienced hand who has a good idea of the audience and the content, and knows how to present your arguments and data to best effect.