What is ESG?
It's a set of criteria used to evaluate how a company performs in areas related to environmental responsibility, social impact, and governance. ESG helps investors and stakeholders assess a company's sustainability and ethical impact beyond just financial results.
For companies in India, ESG has moved well beyond voluntary reporting. SEBI's BRSR (Business Responsibility and Sustainability Report) mandate now requires the top 1,000 listed companies to disclose ESG metrics, and the scope is expanding. Whether you are preparing your first sustainability report or building a long-term ESG strategy, working with an experienced ESG consultant ensures your disclosures are accurate, credible, and aligned with the frameworks your investors and stakeholders actually use.
Why is it REQUIRED?
ESG isn't just a buzzword — it's the new business standard. It helps companies stay ahead by proving they care about the planet, people, and good governance. Investors, customers, and regulators expect it, and businesses that ignore ESG risk getting left behind. It's about doing well by doing good. An ESG consultant helps you move from awareness to action, translating ESG expectations into a structured plan your business can actually execute and report on with confidence.
How can your business benefit?
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Capital Access
Investors and lenders are increasingly screening for ESG performance before committing capital. Strong ESG credentials open doors to green bonds, sustainability-linked loans, and ESG-focused institutional funds.
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Stakeholder Trust
Transparent ESG reporting builds credibility with customers, employees, regulators, and communities. It signals that your business is run with long-term responsibility in mind, not just short-term profit.
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Risk Mitigation
Identifying environmental and social risks early allows you to address them before they become financial or reputational liabilities. ESG due diligence has become a standard part of M&A, vendor assessments, and investor onboarding.
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Brand Strength
Companies with verified ESG practices attract and retain better talent, win more client mandates, and build stronger long-term brand equity in markets where sustainability is increasingly a purchase and partnership criterion.
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Sustainable Growth
ESG is not just about compliance. It drives operational efficiency, reduces waste and energy costs, and builds the kind of resilient business model that outperforms over the long term.
The PEC Greening Way
We help you map ESG metrics, conduct materiality assessments, and prepare reports aligned with GRI and BRSR frameworks. Our experts support ESG strategy design, implementation tracking, and stakeholder engagement to strengthen your position.
As your ESG consultant, we do not hand over a template and leave you to fill it in. We work with your internal teams to understand your operations, map the material ESG issues specific to your industry, gather and validate data across your value chain, and produce disclosures that hold up to scrutiny. We have supported companies across manufacturing, real estate, hospitality, financial services, and infrastructure with GRI-aligned sustainability reports and SEBI BRSR filings.
What Our ESG Consultant Team Covers
ESG is a broad discipline. Here is what we help clients with across the full ESG spectrum:
- Materiality Assessment: Identifying the ESG issues that matter most to your business and stakeholders, forming the foundation of a credible sustainability strategy.
- ESG Strategy and Roadmap: Setting measurable targets across environmental, social, and governance pillars with a practical implementation plan tied to your business calendar.
- BRSR Reporting: End-to-end support for SEBI's Business Responsibility and Sustainability Report, including data collection, gap analysis, and final disclosure preparation.
- GRI-Aligned Sustainability Reports: Preparing sustainability reports in line with GRI Standards, the most widely used global framework for non-financial reporting.
- GHG Accounting and Carbon Footprint: Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions calculation and verification in line with the GHG Protocol, supporting net zero commitments and carbon disclosure.
- Net Zero Roadmap: Science-based target setting and decarbonisation planning aligned with SBTi frameworks and India's national climate commitments.
- Stakeholder Engagement: Structuring and facilitating stakeholder consultation processes that inform your ESG priorities and strengthen trust with key audiences.
Frequently Asked Questions
An ESG consultant helps organisations understand, measure, and improve their performance across environmental, social, and governance dimensions. Their work typically covers materiality assessments to identify the ESG issues most relevant to the business, strategy development, data collection and validation, sustainability reporting in line with frameworks like GRI and BRSR, carbon footprint calculations, and stakeholder engagement. PEC Greening India works with businesses across industries to build ESG programmes that are practical, credible, and aligned with investor and regulatory expectations.
Yes, for large listed companies. SEBI mandates that the top 1,000 listed companies by market capitalisation must submit a Business Responsibility and Sustainability Report (BRSR) as part of their annual report. This requirement is expanding, with BRSR Core disclosures now requiring limited third-party assurance for the top 150 companies. Many unlisted companies, particularly those in supply chains of large corporates or those seeking ESG-focused financing, are also voluntarily adopting ESG reporting to meet investor and client expectations.
GRI (Global Reporting Initiative) is an international framework used by organisations worldwide to report on their economic, environmental, and social impacts. It is voluntary and highly detailed, covering a wide range of sector-specific disclosures. BRSR is India's mandatory sustainability reporting format prescribed by SEBI for listed companies. It is structured around nine principles of responsible business conduct and is tailored to the Indian regulatory context. Many companies use GRI as their primary sustainability report and align their BRSR disclosures alongside it. An ESG consultant can help you manage both efficiently without duplicating effort.
For a company doing ESG reporting for the first time, the process typically takes three to six months. This includes scoping the material issues, setting up internal data collection processes, gathering information across business units, validating the data, and drafting and reviewing the report. For companies with existing sustainability data and processes, the annual reporting cycle can be compressed to six to ten weeks. Starting early in the financial year is always advisable since data gaps often surface during collection and take time to resolve.
ESG applies across all industries, but the demand for ESG consultants in India is currently highest in real estate and construction, manufacturing, financial services, IT and technology, hospitality, pharmaceuticals, and infrastructure. Companies in these sectors face strong pressure from institutional investors, global clients, and regulators to demonstrate credible ESG practices. PEC Greening India has experience across real estate, hospitality, manufacturing, and infrastructure sectors and brings industry-specific context to every ESG engagement.
PEC Greening India works with the GRI Standards (the most widely adopted global framework for sustainability reporting), SEBI BRSR (mandatory for top listed companies in India), the GHG Protocol (for carbon accounting and scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions), and Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) guidance for net zero target setting. We select and combine frameworks based on what your investors, clients, and regulators expect, ensuring your reporting delivers maximum value without unnecessary complexity.