PAINTING BY ALKIS KERAMIDAS

PAINTING BY ALKIS KERAMIDAS

PAINTING BY ALKIS KERAMIDAS

PAINTING BY ALKIS KERAMIDAS

Painting by Alkis Keramidas

Painting by Alkis Keramidas



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. Our CDP experts provide training as well as CDP Disclosure Review & Recommendations.

As members of the IFRS Consultant Content Programme, we have created custom training courses for SASB. Our expertise also includes Ecovadis, SBTs, and TCFD 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.

 
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What our sustainability clients are saying…

Your team continues to exceed our expectations.
— Head of Sustainability, Soft Commodities Company
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.
— Leading Utility Services Company
I would be happy to work with you and your team again. Thank you for making the process straightforward and easy to manage.
— Sustainability Officer, Petrochemical Company

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:

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We can help you improve your Sustainability Program with:


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 Action Plan (CAP) to effectively guide the implementation of emissions reductions strategies.
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Climate Scenario Analysis & TCFD Consulting

Resilience Planning & TCFD Recommended Disclosures

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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.
— Major Multifaceted Transportation Corporation in Philippines (Climate Scenario Analysis Report)
 

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

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, TCFD, 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 recent 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.

  • 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.

  • 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 Associate (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.

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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

Start to Finish Support on Your CDP Journey

KERAMIDA is a CDP Global Gold Verification Provider and CDP Silver Cities Consultancy Solutions Provider.

 

As a CDP Gold Accredited Provider, we help companies complete their CDP questionnaire from data collection to final disclosure submission. With our team of highly qualified and experienced CDP reporting experts, we can help you streamline your efforts and minimize resources on your end to ensure your company’s successful CDP reporting process is as easy as possible.

GHG Verification Services for CDP Reporting

Thank you again for your outstanding support of our 2022 CDP disclosures! Your expertise and commitment are exceptional and greatly appreciated!
— Multinational Semiconductor Equipment Corporation

KERAMIDA’s in-house Accredited Lead GHG Verifier can verify your facility’s GHG footprint and evaluate your emission reduction opportunities for self-disclosure reporting with CDP. Recent data has indicated that almost 70% of the companies registered with CDP have a higher rate of return on their emission reduction investments compared to their competitors who choose not to register with CDP.
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CDP Disclosure Review

KERAMIDA’s past experience as a CDP scoring partner and ongoing CDP Gold Accredited Provider status can help you improve your responses and scores. Sign up today for an online session with one of our CDP experts who will work with you 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.
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CDP – Roadmap to ‘A’ Consulting

Companies that make it on CDP's prestigious annual A-List are seen as leaders in environmental performance. For companies who are interested in developing a long term action plan toward making CDP's A-List, our experts will:

  • Produce a mock-up of how your draft CDP disclosure will score and provide you with written recommendations for how to improve your score before you submit it.

  • Evaluate different scenarios and actions your company can take to advance its CDP grade.

  • Engage with your company to develop a targeted strategy to improve your CDP score by evaluating what actions are feasible in the short and long term to make progress towards an ‘A’ grade.


CSRD Reporting Consulting

What is the EU Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive?

While U.S. companies wait for the SEC’s proposal on climate disclosures, they should pay attention to the European Union’s Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD). Enacted in January 2023, the 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?

  1. Understand your material ESG topics and assess the ‘double materiality’ of your sustainability topics. 

  2. Conduct a GHG Inventory (Scope 1 and 2, and Scope 3) in line with GHG Protocol and get it verified.

  3. Map your value chain and impacts and risks.

  4. Set impact targets (E, S, and G), including metrics for monitoring and developing a management approach.

  5. Formalize your management and oversight process and policies.

  6. 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.

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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 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!
— Project Manager, Office of Sustainability, Indianapolis
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.
— Marketing Director Wesselman Nature Society (Evansville Chamber Sustainability Workshop)
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.
— Partner at Major Law Firm (ICLEF Law Seminar)
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!
— Major Municipality (Development of Sustainability Training for Manager)
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.
— Major AE Firm (Applying Sustainability Principles to Construction Projects)
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!
— Project Manager, Office of Sustainability, Indianapolis (Presentation about ReBuild Indy Project at APWA Conference, which focused on Green Checklist, which was conceived, developed and supplemented by KERAMIDA to apply sustainability principles and benefits with metrics in all capital projects.)

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