Our ESG and Sustainability consulting services help public and private sector clients ensure long-term value in their sustainable development achievements.
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Our ESG and Sustainability Consulting Services:
ESG & Sustainability Consulting Experts
With more than 20 years of experience, KERAMIDA is a powerhouse of ESG program development, sustainability reporting, and training.
We are a sustainability consulting firm with a talented team of analysts, scientists, engineers, and trainers who are dedicated to solving our clients' most challenging ESG needs.
KERAMIDA advises industry, businesses, and cities in the U.S. and abroad. As Certified Trainers for GRI, we offer an online GRI Certified Standards training course.
KERAMIDA is a CDP Global Gold Verification Provider and a CDP Silver Cities Consultancy Provider in the US. For companies striving to make CDP’s ‘A’ List, our experts provide strategic planning to improve your CDP reporting and boost your score with our proven Roadmap to ‘A’ process.
As members of the IFRS Consultant Content Programme, we have created custom training courses for SASB. Our expertise also includes Ecovadis, SBTs, and IFRS to better serve our clients' needs for sustainability services that incorporate the leading reporting standards. In addition, our team provides mock scoring and support for the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) reporting framework.
We support clients from diverse sectors with ESG program development, from benchmarking peers, facilitating materiality assessments, and program planning to program implementation, evaluation, reporting training and reporting.
Our unique, strategic and whole-systems approach to ESG and sustainability involves deep knowledge of compliance, best practices and management systems, along with manufacturing operations and business strategies.
Our team’s combined expertise forms the technical foundation from which our professionals provide expert ESG and sustainability consulting and training services.
What our sustainability clients are saying…
“Your team continues to exceed our expectations.”
“We are very particular about who we work with. Your team is excellent and if you ever need a recommendation, please connect people with us.”
“I would be happy to work with you and your team again. Thank you for making the process straightforward and easy to manage.”
ESG Consulting & Sustainability Strategy Services
Strategic Sustainability Consulting for Companies & Organizations
Whether you have a role in an EHS department, handle investor relations, or are a CSR professional, we can match your sustainability needs with the expertise of one of our professionals. We help businesses at every part of the journey - from taking their first steps in developing an effective sustainability program to disclosing their ESG performance, and advising on sustainability initiatives that create value.
KERAMIDA's ESG consultants work with corporations to:
Improve ESG ratings:
CDP reporting services, disclosure review with recommendations, and score improvement strategy
SASB industry determination & disclosure, custom disclosures
IFRS recommendations & reporting, including Climate Scenario Analysis
Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) support & mock scoring
Identify metrics and indicators for their facilities
Drive outcomes toward process efficiency, continual improvement, risk reduction and value creation
Develop and implement a sustainability strategy that adds value and benefits the company as well as stakeholders
We can help you improve your Sustainability Program with:
Strategic Planning
ESG Disclosure Consulting
Sustainability Reporting Assurance
Materiality Assessment
Peer Benchmarking
Metrics Selection
Establishing KPIs
Implementation Support for Internal Buy-In
Greenhouse Gas Inventory & GHG Emissions Reduction Strategies ›
GHG Inventory & Emissions Reduction Strategies
Measure and reduce your Scope 1, Scope 2, and Scope 3 Emissions
KERAMIDA’s GHG consultants prepare GHG emission inventory reports and provide 3rd party verification of GHG emissions. We can develop methods to reduce your carbon footprint and draft a Climate Transition Plan (CTP) to effectively guide the implementation of emissions reductions strategies.
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KERAMIDA offers a wide variety of Greenhouse Gas (GHG) services to clients worldwide, including multi-facility industrial clients, industrial associations, law firms, and state organizations. Our experienced team of GHG experts provide carbon footprint evaluations, GHG inventories, GHG monitoring plans, and training.
Climate Scenario Analysis & IFRS Consulting
Resilience Planning & Climate-related Financial Risk Disclosures
We believe that a scenario analysis is an important and useful tool in developing a strategic plan to reduce climate-related risk. We help organizations assess climate-related risks and opportunities, then develop and implement ambitious climate mitigation and adaptation strategies.
What our Climate Scenario Analysis clients say:
“We want to express our gratitude for the collaborative effort from KERAMIDA throughout this journey. It has been a rewarding experience working together. Looking forward to more successful collaborations in the future.”
KERAMIDA can help your organization to:
Identify and describe Climate-Related Risks and Opportunities (geographically and temporally) due to global macro trends:
Flooding of assets
Increases in temperature
Water scarcity
Increasing environmental regulation and carbon taxes
Air pollution
Coordinate mitigation responses by operational units:
Business Continuity
Enterprise Risk Management
Government Relations
Corporate Affairs
Facility management
Capital Investment
Describe how your response to different climate-related scenarios demonstrates the improved resilience of your business strategy:
Enhance your decision making capacity, agility and adaptability
Gain deeper insight, knowledge and intelligence on current risks and emerging issues
Identify new business opportunities which can yield competitive and commercial advantage
Reduce future regulatory, resource and price risks
Create an attractive proposition for employees
Build trust with key stakeholders
Sustainability Reporting & Assurance
Sustainability Regulatory Compliance Consulting Services
KERAMIDA’s team of sustainability reporting experts provides companies with clear guidance and an action plan for complying with mandatory reporting obligations while building on any existing reporting with voluntary standards. We help our clients with EU ESG disclosure regulations, including CSRD, CBAM, and CSDDD, as well as U.S. corporate climate compliance, like California’s Climate Laws.
Reporting & Disclosure Verification
KERAMIDA’s Sustainability Reporting experts provide companies and organizations with reporting & disclosure consulting, GHG verification services, corporate sustainability reporting assurance, and sustainability reporting training courses in the leading frameworks: GRI, CDP, SASB, IFRS, PRI, UNDP SDGs, ISSB, TNFD, and CSRD. In addition to aligning your report with the leading reporting frameworks, we provide drafting and editing of report content, data analysis and/or validation, and report design.
Read the CDP report that KERAMIDA collaborated on to learn why your environmental data needs verification: The business benefits of third-party verification of environmental data.
KERAMIDA’s Sustainability Reporting Certifications & Credentials:
AA1000AS Licensed Provider
KERAMIDA is an AccountAbility-Licensed Assurance Provider.CDP Global Gold Verification Provider
CDP Silver Cities Consultancy Solutions Provider in U.S.
GRI Certified Training Partner
KERAMIDA is one of a select few GRI-certified companies in the U.S. to provide training on how to effectively report on sustainability using the GRI framework.IFRS Consultant Content Programme Member
As an IFRS Consultant Content Programme member, KERAMIDA has exclusive access to IFRS Sustainability resources, including emerging information about the ISSB Standards and SASB Standards. KERAMIDA assists public companies in navigating SASB's industry-specific sustainability standards to comply with Regulation S-K in their disclosure to investors.IFRS FSA Credential (originally SASB FSA Credential)
KERAMIDA has an FSA Certified Professional on staff who specializes in helping companies understand the link between financially material sustainability information and a company’s ability to drive enterprise value.GSCC-Approved Certification Body for the Steel Climate Standard
Envision Sustainability Professional (ENV SP)
KERAMIDA has ENV SP professionals. The Envision Framework is a globally recognized approach to sustainable, resilient, and equitable infrastructure.LEED AP Building Design + Construction (LEED AP BD+C)
KERAMIDA’s LEED AP BD+C has expertise in the design and construction phases of green buildings, serving the commercial, residential, education, and healthcare sectors.LEED Green Associates (LEED GA)
Certified ISO 14001 & ISO 45001 Lead Auditors
KERAMIDA's professionals have over two decades of experience creating, implementing, auditing, and improving ISO 14001 Environmental Management Systems and ISO 45001 Health & Safety Management Systems.
Data Management & Analytics
We support the management and reporting needs of global clients with large and diverse sets of EHS & Sustainability data. Our services include Data Quality Assurance, Sustainability Analytics, Emission Data Analysis and Emission Reporting Process Optimization.
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CSR Reporting
If you are looking to expand your Corporate Social Responsibility reporting to include aspects of Sustainability, let KERAMIDA assist you with:
Navigating the various reporting frameworks (GRI Standards, SASB Standards, UNDP SDGs)
Prioritizing and engaging with stakeholders on the content of your report
Creating a reporting roadmap that will result in a multi-faceted publication
Applying the principle of “Materiality” to the topics which will form the content of your report
Convening internal and external resources and establishing reporting roles and responsibilities
Gathering, auditing, aggregating, and managing the data that will appear in your report
CDP Reporting Consulting
CDP reporting services and strategy for score improvement
KERAMIDA is a CDP Global Gold Verification Provider & CDP Silver Cities Consultancy Solutions Provider.
We support clients from start to finish with CDP support services, including GHG Scope 1, 2, and 3 inventories, verification/assurance, disclosure review and recommendations, strategic planning for score improvement, and science-based target assistance.
Our group of CDP experts will help you accurately and efficiently improve your response and strategize ways to boost your score with a personalized long-term action plan using our successful Roadmap to ‘A’ process.
CSRD Reporting Consulting
What is the EU Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive?
Enacted in January 2023, the European Union’s Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) applies to nearly 50,000 EU-based companies and will be phased in between 2024 and 2029. Notably, non-EU-based companies with significant operations within the EU (e.g., over 500 employees and an annual balance sheet above €20 million or a net turnover above €40 million) are subject to the regulation.
The CSRD rule requires companies to disclose climate change-related risks as well as the impacts that such risks have on society and climate – a concept known as “double materiality”. It also requires a company to disclose its Scope 3 emissions.
What can your company do to prepare for CSRD?
Understand your material ESG topics and assess the ‘double materiality’ of your sustainability topics.
Conduct a GHG Inventory (Scope 1 and 2, and Scope 3) in line with GHG Protocol and get it verified.
Map your value chain and impacts and risks.
Set impact targets (E, S, and G), including metrics for monitoring and developing a management approach.
Formalize your management and oversight process and policies.
Monitor and report your progress.
Contact us today to speak with one of our CSRD consultants.
Supply Chain Sustainability Consulting
Supply Chain Decarbonization
KERAMIDA provides expert reporting assistance, GHG verification, and emissions reduction strategies. We help companies with making their supply chain more resilient and adaptive. Our services for suppliers includes assistance with required sustainability reporting and emissions disclosures. Learn more ›
Sustainability Audits
A powerful tool for building a stronger sustainability strategy and improving ESG performance.
An audit of your company or organization’s sustainability program will allow you to quickly and easily evaluate the sustainability practices that your business has already implemented, and identify areas where there is opportunity for improvement.
When conducting a comprehensive sustainability audit, our experts will:
Review your sustainability policy and assess the reasonableness and comprehensiveness of the policy.
Evaluate the extent to which your policy is likely to help ensure that your program operates in a sustainable manner.
Recommend ways that your policy could be strengthened to further the goal of operating sustainably.
Consider the metrics you are currently collecting in order to monitor compliance with your sustainability policy, and evaluate performance.
Determine whether those metrics are the most appropriate for measuring each objective of your policy. If your program’s current metrics are insufficient, we recommend more appropriate metrics.
Assess your program’s process for developing thresholds and targets for its performance.
Evaluate whether your program is making sufficient progress toward setting a sustainability baseline.
Case Study:
KERAMIDA was contracted by the California State Auditor’s Office to provide expertise on sustainability planning and policy development for infrastructure projects in support of the State Auditor’s audit of the efficiency and efficacy of the policies and practices employed by the California High Speed Rail Authority, which is currently constructing the largest infrastructure project in the U.S.
Benchmarking & Transparency Consulting for City/State Regulations
KERAMIDA’s professionals have experience developing and implementing city-wide benchmarking and transparency programs. These programs require buildings to benchmark and report their energy and water usage to a city and display building data on a public-facing dashboard. Our expertise includes:
Gathering policy support via stakeholder mapping and engagement
Managing municipal utility usage via EPA’s ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager
Analyzing and implementing equity capacity considerations into benchmarking program
Coordinating educational opportunities for building owners and managers
Developing monthly newsletters for community members and building owners
KERAMIDA's ESG Integration Approach
GreenStep™ Sustainability Model
KERAMIDA's Proprietary ESG Assessment & Implementation Model - building the ESG Sustainability business case to reduce costs and corporate risk, and improve market positioning of corporations and cities.
Based on Metrics and KPIs for Compliance and Best Management Practices, GreenStep™ builds the business case for CEOs and investors, who want to:
Reduce Costs
Minimize Risk
Address Investor Needs
Improve Market Positioning
Create Social & Economic Value
KERAMIDA’s GreenStep™ approach:
Maximizes the benefits of satisfying your EHS compliance requirements
Maximizes the cost savings from using Best Management Practices
Maximizes the performance of your Continual Improvement Management Systems
Provides you with materials to communicate your company’s resilience and sustainability to employees, investors, and your community
For our Industry clients, GreenStep™ blends top management's strategic interests with the operational interests of the managers who are responsible for the day to day supervision of EHS. GreenStep™ guides you through the challenges encountered on the plant floor while satisfying the increasing demand for leading indicators of company health.
Contact us today to learn how our GreenStep™ suite of services can help you go from good intentions to great results.
ESG & Sustainability Management Systems
KERAMIDA’s proprietary ESG & Sustainability Management System Program based on an ISO platform.
KERAMIDA develops and implements environmental, health & safety, management systems in record time using our proprietary FastTrack™ process. With FastTrack™, we can have your fully documented ISO 14001, ISO 45001, ISO 50001, ISO 20400, or ESG management system ready to implement in just six on-site days.
KERAMIDA has been advising industrial and governmental clients on the principles and requirements of sustainability planning and ISO 14001 and ISO 45001 Management Systems since the early 1990’s. Our professionals have over two decades of experience creating, implementing, auditing, and improving ISO 14001 Environmental Management Systems and ISO 45001 Health & Safety Management Systems. KERAMIDA’s technical, regulatory and management systems expertise is indispensable in designing systems which are cost-effective and easy to implement.
Our FastTrack® System is the fastest, most cost-effective way to develop a Management System.
FastTrack® follows a proven, step-by-step process that creates a fully documented plan ready for implementation in the fewest days possible, with the least amount of disruption to personnel and operations. Our FastTrack® approach covers the elements necessary to develop, implement and audit a sustainability program, but has been streamlined in terms of total hours, on-site days, and cost.
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Highlighted Sustainability Consulting Experience
KERAMIDA's Sustainability professionals excel at helping companies and organizations integrate sustainability into long-term operations.
Our work has included:
The development of a strategic growth plan for a major European industrial group to address the cost implications of the EU greenhouse gases legislation.
The performance of a major study for the U.S. Department of Energy on reduction of greenhouse emissions and energy use by heavy manufacturing.
The sustainability audit of the California High Speed Rail project for the California State Auditor’s Office - in order to provide expertise on sustainability planning and policy development for what was the largest infrastructure project in the U.S.
The assessment of green power production by waste products for a major car manufacturer with zero landfill goal.
Thousands of Compliance and Best Management Practices Audits/Assessments of manufacturing plants in the U.S. and around the world.
The development and implementation of the Sustainable Public Works Program for Capital Assets for the City of Indianapolis - a first, in the USA.
The first Reuse Plan and Design of a Superfund Site for a comprehensive, Multi-Purpose Development - a first, nationally.
The subject was also co-taught by Dr. Keramida at Purdue University's Civil Engineering Senior Design Class (Spring 2016 semester) leading the students to produce a cutting-edge design for a comprehensive and creative for-profit development of a Superfund site - a first among engineering schools for senior design.
Developed the Environmental and Sustainability components for a major Private Public Partnership (P3) Development Project and drafted the Environmental/Sustainability provisions of the Lenders' Technical Advisor (LTA) Report.
Sustainable / Green Manufacturing Research Pioneer
KERAMIDA privatized a U.S. Department of Defense green manufacturing initiative in 2000, and co-founded and co-directed Technikon LLC, a research, development, and technology validation company in Sacramento, California, to carry out DOD's initiative of emissions, waste and energy reduction through materials substitution and process innovations.
Technikon's work for DOD's Casting Emissions Reduction Program (CERP) resulted in over 60% reduction in emissions and energy use, which were applicable across the entire $25 billion US casting industry. Technikon's CERP research successes were presented in many publications, including D. Gottlieb's "Environmental Technology Resources Handbook", CRC, 2003, and "Information Systems and the Environment" book by the National Academy of Engineering, 2001. Technikon's work included renewable energy technologies validation.
Technikon LLC was transformed into a nonprofit organization in 2012.
In 2015, KERAMIDA created ECO Crossroads, a not-for-profit sustainable initiative that focuses on:
Sustainable Industry - with a Best Management Practices Focus.
Sustainable Development - with a Walkable Community Focus.
Urban Renewal - with a Brownfield focus.
Profitable Urban Farming - with an Ag/Brownfield Focus.
Healthy Living - with an Educational Focus.
Food Security - with an Ag/Compliance Focus.
Training - Provided by ECO Crossroads Institute.
Visit www.ecocrossroads.org to learn how ECO Crossroads can help your business profit from green initiatives.
What our clients are saying about our Sustainability & ESG Services:
“I wanted to pass along that our Better Buildings Program received recognition from the Department of Energy (DOE) for being one of only 5 grantees (out of 40) to complete Q4 reporting without requiring any assistance or revisions. DOE also shared this success during my bi-weekly call this afternoon and thanked us for our diligence in complying with this aspect of the program. Thanks to each of you for your role in ensuring an efficient and accurate reporting process!”
“I gained so much great insight from your presentation. Your model was very clear and easy to follow. The presentation also did not leave me with as many question marks at the end. I’ve seen far too many sustainability resources just scratch the surface and offer the same short list of green tips that we’ve all seen many times over. However, the information you provided has reenergized my
excitement to initiate a better plan for Wesselman Nature Society.”
“Thank you so much for your excellent presentation yesterday at the Environmental Law Conference. The sustainability panel was the highlight of the conference, I thought. I’ve already received very positive feedback. I do hope we’ll have the opportunity to work with KERAMIDA on a sustainability project in the future.”
“The training went really well! The checklist is really great too! Thanks for all you’ve done over the last SEVERAL MONTHS to make today’s training a HUGE SUCCESS!”
“I was thoroughly impressed… all in all, it was excellent. We need to talk about how we can take some of this as framework to develop details about the entire project development process, not just the green side of things.”
“Our presentation went really well and people were very pleasantly surprised at how much Indianapolis has accomplished in such a short time. We had a packed house and several great questions. People were particularly impressed with the Green Checklist... we were the underdogs-turned-rockstars of the conference and all the hard work of you guys over the last year was evident throughout our presentation!”
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Related Projects:
KERAMIDA was contracted by the California State Auditor’s Office to provide expertise on sustainability planning and policy development for infrastructure projects in support of the State Auditor’s audit of the efficiency and efficacy of the policies and practices employed by the California High Speed Rail Authority, which is currently constructing the largest infrastructure project in the U.S.
As the Sustainability Program Lead for the RebuildIndy infrastructure improvement initiative, KERAMIDA’s role was to place the sustainability umbrella over all public works projects, including the development and implementation of sustainability principles and sustainable design elements for all public works capital projects.
Related Services:
KERAMIDA offers a wide variety of Greenhouse Gas (GHG) services to clients worldwide, including multi-facility industrial clients, industrial associations, law firms, and state organizations. Our experienced team of GHG experts provide carbon footprint evaluations, GHG inventories, GHG monitoring plans, and training.
KERAMIDA’s ESG Assurance Team includes CPAs, attorneys, PhD. engineers and PhD. scientists. We provide companies with third-party verification and assurance of GHG and other sustainability data. KERAMIDA is a CDP Global Gold Verification Provider and an AA1000 Licensed Assurance Provider. We offer independent validation and verification of GHG emissions for organizations across any industry in accordance with a variety of accepted standards, including ISO 14064-3 standards.
Improve your CDP score by signing up today for one of a limited number of online sessions with our CDP experts who will work with you individually to hand score one of your CDP Disclosures (Climate Change, Water or Forestry) and provide you with written recommendations for how to improve your score.
KERAMIDA's sustainability reporting training helps clients communicate their sustainability stories to their stakeholders. We offer GRI-certified and CDP-certified standards training courses. Register online now for in-person training taught by an experienced, certified sustainability reporting trainer.
KERAMIDA develops and implements environmental, health & safety, management systems in record time using our proprietary FastTrack™ process. With FastTrack™, we can have your fully documented ISO 14001, ISO 45001, ISO 50001, ISO 20400, or ESG management system ready to implement in just six on-site days.
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