SUSTAINABILITY ADVISORY

GOODBODY CLEARSTREAM

Goodbody Clearstream turns sustainability into a catalyst for growth, resilience and long-term value for our customers. We help businesses retain and win customers, manage rising costs, reduce business risks and navigate regulations. This strengthens credibility with investors, employees, customers and other stakeholders.

We are one of Ireland’s leading ESG, sustainability climate and advisory teams and take a practitioner led and outcomes driven approach. We combine strategic insight with hands on delivery to move quickly from sustainability ambition to action. We have advised hundreds of organisations across multiple sectors, delivering practical strategies and programmes that deliver measurable impact and value.

Driven by Sustainability

We partner with organisations to design, measure, implement and report best-in-class sustainable practice. Our core services are:

Sustainability strategy, capability building and training
Climate transition planning and decarbonisation
Organisational / Product carbon footprinting and verification
ESG compliance, disclosure and reporting
Nature and social impact and measurement
Sustainable supply chain solutions

OUR SERVICES

EXPERTISE IN DEPTH

Making sustainability real, relevant and value-driven

We help companies share their approach to sustainability by identifying what matters most to their business, through understanding their impacts on the environment and people, the risks they’re exposed to, as well as the opportunities to reduce costs, create competitive advantage and make their business more resilient. We use our Responsible Business Framework to set strategic priorities backed up by stakeholder engagement, targets, action plans and progress measures, making sustainability real, relevant and value-driven.

The Responsible Business Framework is built on three core areas of engagement:

Strategy

Integrate sustainability within your business strategy and define how you create value
Decide what ESG topics matters to your business by understanding your impacts, risks and opportunities through a double materiality assessment
Engage with stakeholders and understand expectations
Establish leadership commitment and alignment
Define responsibilities within your governance structure
Create a structured Responsible Business Framework

Measurement & action

Identify key performance indicators and meaningful metrics to measure impact and progress across ESG topics
Set ambition and strategic targets
Develop action plans, allocate resources and create internal tools to support implementation
Define approach to tracking and monitoring data and integrating it into decision-making
Build internal capability through leadership and employee training

Communication

Develop communication materials that tell a clear story about what sustainability means to your business
Share data and information to meet customer and stakeholder expectations

OUR CLIENTS AND PARTNERS

CHÉ MCGANN

Head of Responsible Business and ESG Reporting

FRAN MCNULTY

Senior Director, Responsible Business and ESG Reporting

KATIE HESTON

Director, Nature and Responsible Business

KELETSO MALEPE

Responsible Business and ESG Reporting | Senior Manager

DR DECLAN BOGAN

Head of Sustainability Learning and Training

Addressing climate risks, reducing costs and building resilience

We have a market-leading structured approach to delivering Climate Transition Plans (CTPs). Drawing on the deep and extensive experience of our climate and ESG strategy teams, we draw insights from across our service lines to complete all the elements required for a credible plan for investors and key stakeholders. These include emissions measurement, materiality, governance, resilience and scenario analysis, target setting and pathway modelling.

Climate Transition Plans are built on three key stages:

Baseline & understand: Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions data is gathered and footprint is calculated using the ISO14064-1 standard. We use the ISO 14064-3 standard to verify your footprint. This is foundational to the creation of decarbonisation and climate transition plans.
Climate ambition: We develop action-oriented, costed and time-bound decarbonisation plans. We do this by modelling decarbonisation pathways that meet your existing targets or inform your decision to set targets e.g. Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTi targets). Once these decarbonisation levers and actions are identified we use a portfolio approach to estimate the costs and benefits of implementation in the context of company growth.
Climate transition: Climate-related risks and opportunities are identified using scenario analysis, preparing companies for long-term challenges and uncertainties. Decarbonisation plans are activated and the plan is reported and disclosed publicly in alignment with relevant frameworks provided by CDP, CSRD, SEC and so forth. This enables clear, concise and consistent communications around the climate transition and journey to Net Zero, whilst providing measurable KPIs for sustainable linked finance (green loans) and client requests.

OUR CLIENTS AND PARTNERS

BERNARDO SALOMON

Carbon and Climate Strategy | Manager

MARK BENNETT

Senior Director, Carbon and Climate Strategy

JONNY FREPP

Climate Strategy and Carbon Markets | Director

GAVIN WHITAKER

Head of Carbon and Climate Strategy

KHRYSTYNA BLAZEJEWSKA

Carbon and Climate Strategy | Manager

Make informed decisions with organisational and product emissions data and insights

Carbon footprints have become a foundational tool for business activities and costs. Goodbody Clearstream specialise in measuring, verifying and reporting organisational Green House Gas (GHS) Carbon Emissions to the ISO 14064 standard. We use the ISO 14064-3 standard to verify your footprint.

We dispel uncertainty around Scope 1, 2 and 3 boundaries, data quality, methodological choices, and how results can be verified and communicated. Our approach identifies carbon ‘hotspots’ and identifies addressable costs in your business with carbon footprint as a proxy. We also manage the reporting of carbon emissions to investors, management and staff and to external reporting platforms such as CDP.

We also conduct Life Cycle Assessments (LCAs) to help companies understand the environmental impacts of their products, product carbon footprints (PCFs), and Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs). These provide a verified, public report, summarising the LCA data according to specific standards. Our approach provides transparent, decision‑useful data.

We also advise on tools and technologies to support organisations looking to develop in-house expertise to measure carbon footprints and LCAs.

OUR CLIENTS AND PARTNERS

BERNARDO SALOMON

Carbon and Climate Strategy | Manager

GAVIN WHITAKER

Head of Carbon and Climate Strategy

EMILY CANTWELL – KELLY

Carbon and Sustainability Strategy | Manager

PATTI WALSHE

Carbon and ESG Reporting | Senior Manager

SADHBH BRESLIN

Carbon and Climate Strategy | Manager

KHRYSTYNA BLAZEJEWSKA

Carbon and Climate Strategy | Manager

Prepare for regulations, reduce compliance risk, communicate your actions and impact

The demand for ESG disclosures continues to grow. Investors, customers, suppliers, employees and other stakeholders expect companies to share transparent, accurate and comprehensive information about how they manage ESG through their strategy, actions, targets, and performance metrics. Meanwhile, the range and complexity of ESG reporting standards, frameworks and ratings platforms continues to grow. A well-managed, focussed approach to sustainability reporting has never been more critical.

We help clients cut through the ESG regulatory noise, make them aware of compliance and disclosure requirements, de-risk strategy, avoid fines and reputational damage, build capacity internally, react to supply chain demands and proactively prepare for legislative requirements.

When preparing for compliance, disclosure or reporting, we have three key activities to support companies:

Compliance with ESG regulation and legislation

Screening against ESG regulations and interpretation of regulatory text
Practical guidance on implementation
Horizon scanning on updates on regulatory developments
Role-based training for teams

ESG reporting

Support to craft compelling sustainability reports using templates and best practice examples, aligned with regulatory standards and voluntary frameworks
Develop practical ESG reporting roadmaps to meet current and future regulation or voluntary frameworks
Conduct Double Materiality Assessments (DMA), stakeholder engagement, and identify material reporting standards, topics and metrics
Create data collection strategies and reporting governance structures
Assess reporting readiness and create practical action plans
Assess compliance and support preparation for assurance

Our reporting and disclosure support covers a broad range of frameworks and standards including:

EU	European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS/CSRD), VSME/VS, Taxonomy, Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSRD), VSME, CSDDD and others)
Global	IFRS Sustainability Disclosure Standards (ISSB), Taskforce on Climate Related Financial Disclosure (TCFD), Taskforce on Nature Related Financial Disclosure (TNFD), UK Sustainability Reporting Standards (SRS), SB261 (California Climate-Related Financial Risk), Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB)
Ratings & Certifications	CDP, Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTi), B Corp, EcoVadis

Goodbody Clearstream act as secretariat for CDP Ireland Network.

OUR CLIENTS AND PARTNERS

CHÉ MCGANN

Head of Responsible Business and ESG Reporting

FRAN MCNULTY

Senior Director, Responsible Business and ESG Reporting

KATE BEAHAN

Director, Responsible Sourcing and Sustainability Strategy

KATIE HESTON

Director, Nature and Responsible Business

KELETSO MALEPE

Responsible Business and ESG Reporting | Senior Manager

ORLA BUTLER

Responsible Sourcing and Sustainability Strategy | Manager

Build resilience and reducing risk

The greatest environmental, social and regulatory risks for business sit within their supply chains. So, a structured approach to due diligence, identification of risk and prioritisation of action is critical. We support organisations to reduce risk and build resilience by strengthening supply chain governance and strategy and deepening supplier engagement and relationships. Our work expands beyond climate to address wider social, human rights and nature impacts and risks, while embedding circular economy principles to reduce reliance on scarce resources. We integrate sustainable practices across procurement processes and the full supplier lifecycle.

We help clients deal with issues such as:

Risk & compliance: exposure to supply chain disruptions and over-reliance on critical or scarce resources, increasing regulatory pressure (e.g. ESG disclosures, due diligence laws), lack of visibility into supplier risks (climate, human rights, biodiversity)
Cost & efficiency: inefficient procurement processes and missed cost-saving opportunities, material volatility and rising input costs due to scarcity, waste and linear resource use driving unnecessary spend
Supply chain sustainability performance: low supplier engagement on sustainability or performance improvements, limited resilience to shocks (climate events, geopolitical issues), challenges addressing Scope 3 emissions and value chain impacts
Reputation & stakeholder pressure: risk of reputational damage from unsustainable or unethical suppliers, increasing expectations from investors, customers, and regulators
Strategic Growth & Future-readiness: lack of circular economy integration and overdependence on linear models, missed opportunities for innovation in sustainable products/services, inability to align supply chain strategy with long-term business resilience

By engaging meaningfully with suppliers, employees and internal procurement teams, we help organisations not only mitigate risk, but also drive innovation, improve performance, build trust and create competitive advantage through more transparent and sustainable value supply chains.

We have three key activities to support companies to build responsible and sustainable supply chains:

Being a responsible procurer

Build a robust supplier due diligence and risk assessment model in line with best practice
Define clear supplier performance frameworks, KPIs, and accountability mechanisms
Embed responsible procurement principles into policies and processes
Develop targeted supplier engagement strategies to drive performance and long-term relationships
Build supplier capability through training, tools, and continuous improvement programmes
Track, monitor, and report on supplier risk, impact, and progress with strong data and governance
Continuously improve supplier performance to build resilient, transparent, and future-ready supply chains

Circular economy

Identify areas within the business that lend to circular material flows, process improvements and new circular products and services
Identify opportunities for decarbonisation through more efficient use of materials and waste reduction
Build new business opportunities with novel customer value propositions
Educate your teams on building circular economy solutions and embedding it into the business
Measure, verify and compare your circular impact using product carbon footprints and explore scenarios with different materials

Nature footprinting

Identify what within nature are the most material impacts, risks and opportunities in your business – e.g. water, soil, pollution (noise, air) and land use change
Link priority areas to business model, and identify locations and geography of the business with defined related KPIs and metrics
Build out a data strategy and support collection of data for target setting, reporting and disclosure – TNFD, CDP, CSRD, Origin Green and other frameworks
Identify projects site, company, value chain level to deliver impact at scale