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ESG advisory, assurance & capability

Built for the GCC.
Audit-ready by design.

Senior-led ESG strategy, assurance, climate risk, and corporate training for banks, utilities, industry, and family groups across the Gulf — delivered with the technical depth your auditor, regulator, and board will trust.

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ESG Strategy & Climate Risk

"Your board needs a position paper before the next regulatory review."

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ESG & GHG Assurance

"Your bank has flagged that your sustainability-linked loan covenants need assurance."

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GHG Inventory & Supplier Audits

"Your auditor has questioned how Scope 3 supplier emissions were quantified."

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Capability Building

"Your group is rolling out IFRS S1/S2 reporting and the team needs board-level fluency."

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ICAAP & Climate Stress Testing

"CBUAE has flagged that your ICAAP needs climate scenario integration."

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By the numbers

Senior-led delivery, measured at scale across the GCC.

30+
GCC institutions served
Banks, utilities, oil & gas, manufacturing, family groups
100+
Programmes delivered
Across 9 practice areas, Kirkpatrick L1–L4 measured
16+
Banking-sector engagements
UAE banks, Islamic FIs, NBFCs, multilateral DFIs
17+
Years sector experience
Carbon markets, ESG advisory, climate finance, EPC
01 How we work
01 — Senior on the call. Always.

A senior principal leads every engagement, end to end.

There is no model where you buy senior expertise in the proposal and get junior delivery on the project. Specialists from our network are matched to the work — by sector, by framework, by language — under one accountable lead from kickoff to sign-off.

02 — Methodology rigour

Audit-firm depth. Without the lock-in.

Our methodology — assurance under ISAE 3000 / ISSA 5000, GHG inventory under ISO 14064-3, climate risk under TCFD / IFRS S2, ICAAP under CBUAE — meets the technical and audit-readiness standards of major assurance providers. Without partner-rate change requests, black-box models, or ongoing dependency.

03 — Sector specialisation

Six sectors. Repeated engagements. Regulator-aware.

Banking & FS, Energy & Utilities, Oil & Gas, Heavy Industry, Transport & Logistics, and Family Business & Holdings — sectors where we have direct delivery history with the GCC's specific regulators and disclosure regimes. Outside these, we take engagements selectively.

04 — Knowledge transfer

We leave the work better understood than we found it.

Every engagement transfers capability — to your team, your data architecture, your governance structure. The deliverable is not just the report or the certification. It is the in-house competency to maintain, defend, and evolve the work after we leave.

Regulatory geography

Built for the GCC.
Tailored to every jurisdiction.

Each engagement is calibrated to the specific ESG, climate, and sustainability disclosure expectations of the institution's home jurisdiction. Click a country below to see the regulators, frameworks, and engagement context we work with there.

United Arab Emirates

From CBUAE Climate Risk Principles to ADX/DFM ESG disclosure — operational alignment, not vague aspiration.

We work with UAE-listed entities, federal authorities, and free-zone companies on the disclosure cycles, climate risk integration, and assurance the local regulators actually expect. Federal Climate Law (2024), Net-Zero 2050, and IFRS S1/S2 readiness sit at the centre of most current engagements.

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Regulators & frameworks
  • SCA Securities & Commodities Authority
  • ADX Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange
  • DFM Dubai Financial Market
  • CBUAE Climate Risk Principles
  • MOCCAE Ministry of Climate Change & Environment
  • UAE Climate Law (2024)
  • UAE Net-Zero 2050
Global frameworks our methodology aligns with
  • IFRS S1 / S2
  • GRI Standards
  • ESRS / CSRD
  • TCFD
  • SBTi
  • ISAE 3000
  • ISSA 5000
  • ISO 14064
  • OGMP 2.0
  • PCAF
  • NGFS
  • EU CBAM
02 What we do

Six disciplines, designed to compose.

Most engagements draw from more than one discipline. Strategy plus assurance. Reporting plus rating uplift. Training plus tooling. We scope across the line you actually need — rather than forcing the work into a single category that doesn't fit.

03 Industries

Sector specialisation, not generalist breadth.

Six sectors where we have repeated engagements, regulatory fluency, and signature work. Outside these, we take on assignments selectively.

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Banking & Financial Services

ICAAP-ESG bridge, CBUAE Climate Risk Principles, IFRS S1/S2, and ADX/DFM disclosure for UAE banks, NBFCs, and Islamic financial institutions.

  • CBUAE Climate Risk Principles
  • NGFS scenario stress testing
  • IFRS S1/S2 transition
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02

Energy & Utilities

GHG inventories for power, water, and district cooling; carbon credit pathways for desalination; sustainable finance for utility CapEx.

  • Scope 1 process emissions
  • Carbon credit eligibility
  • Sustainable finance structuring
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03

Oil & Gas

Methane MRV (OGMP 2.0), zero routine flaring readiness, decommissioning ESG, and net-zero pathway design for upstream and midstream operators.

  • Methane abatement & MRV
  • Zero routine flaring 2030
  • Decommissioning ESG
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04

Heavy Industry & Manufacturing

ASI certification for aluminium, ResponsibleSteel readiness, EcoVadis programmes, supplier ESG audits, and Scope 3 inventories for industrial groups.

  • ASI / ResponsibleSteel certification
  • EU CBAM exposure
  • Scope 3 supplier emissions
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05

Transportation & Logistics

Fleet electrification roadmaps, IMO MEPC compliance for shipping, scope 3 logistics emissions, and toll-operator ESG disclosure.

  • IMO MEPC / FuelEU Maritime
  • Fleet electrification economics
  • Scope 3 transport emissions
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06

Family Business & Holdings

Multi-entity ESG governance, succession-linked sustainability strategy, group-level reporting, and Sharia-compliant sustainable finance.

  • Multi-entity consolidation
  • Governance & succession
  • Sharia-compliant green sukuk
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04 Training & capability

We don't read decks aloud.
We build measurable capability.

Every cohort runs with senior practitioners, applies live simulations, and is measured against full Kirkpatrick L1–L4 outcomes — not feedback scores. 100+ programmes, 30+ GCC institutions, methodology that holds up under audit.

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  • L1 Reaction & facilitation — ≥ 90% threshold
  • L2 Knowledge transfer — pre/post calibrated, ≥ 20% delta
  • L3 Behaviour on the job — manager-rated, 30/60-day
  • L4 Business impact — ROI captured, capstone showcase
05 Software

We don't just advise on ESG technology.
We've built it.

ESGweise One — our materiality, GHG, climate-risk, and reporting platform — runs in production with GCC clients. When off-the-shelf tools don't fit your sector or regulator, we can build instead of recommend.

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  • MaterialityDouble materiality assessment, sector-mapped
  • GHGScopes 1, 2, 3 inventory with audit trail
  • Climate RiskNGFS scenarios, GCC-overlay ready
  • ReportsGRI, IFRS S1/S2, ESRS-compatible output
For financial risk specialists

Looking for IFRS 9 ECL, ICAAP, stress testing, or credit risk modelling work?

Our financial risk advisory practice operates as Riskweise — same team, sharper focus on technical risk and modelling.

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You probably know what you need.
We're good at the part where it gets done.

Thirty minutes. No deck. We listen, you describe the situation, we tell you honestly whether we're the right firm — and what we'd do first if we are.

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