A Dubai ESG advisory firm working across the GCC.
ESGweise was founded in Dubai by Sumit Agarwal in 2023. We work at the intersection of ESG, financial risk and operational reengineering, to ISAE 3000 and ISSA 5000 standards, for clients across the GCC.
Where the work comes from
A large share of our work is remediation: reports that could not be defended to a regulator, inventories that failed a boundary check, frameworks written for one geography and reissued for another. We have done the original work and the repair work, and the second is more expensive.
Why GCC specificity matters
UAE Climate Law, CBUAE Climate Risk Principles, ADX/DFM disclosure rules, MOCCAE MRV, ADGM and DIFC standards, Sharia-compliant green finance, NGFS scenarios overlaid on GCC-specific energy and water structures — these aren't translation problems. They're substantive technical differences that change what good ESG work looks like in the Gulf.
What audit-ready means here
Deliverables are built to pass an ISAE 3000 limited assurance review without rework: working papers, an evidence trail, and calculations a third party can reproduce from the source data.
A named principal leads every engagement.
Every engagement is led by Sumit or a designated principal, who stays on it from kickoff to sign-off. Specialists from our network are matched to the work by sector, framework and language, under that one lead.
Discovery before deliverables
Two to four conversations before we propose anything. We need to understand your board's actual concerns, your auditor's actual flags, your regulator's actual expectations — not assumptions from the brief.
Methodology that survives scrutiny
We work to ISAE 3000 / ISSA 5000 assurance standards even when the engagement is advisory. Working papers, evidence trails, calculation reproducibility — built in, not retrofitted.
One named accountable principal
A single point of contact who has done the work themselves. The named lead stays responsible for both the analysis and the client contact.
Scope discipline
We say when an engagement sits outside our specialism, when a less expensive route exists, and when a proposal quoted elsewhere is sound.
ESGweise sits within four connected practice lines.
Most engagements draw from more than one. The structure makes it easier to scope, deliver, and bill — without forcing the work into a single category that doesn't fit.
Sustainability Advisory
ESG strategy, materiality, climate risk, reporting, assurance, ratings improvement, ISO implementation.
Capability Building
Senior-led training across nine practice areas, Kirkpatrick L1–L4 measurement, live simulations, 90-day sustainment.
Financial Risk Advisory
IFRS 9 ECL modelling, ICAAP, stress testing, climate-credit integration, treasury and ALM.
Software Platform
ESGweise One, a production materiality, GHG, climate risk and reporting platform with an audit trail.