July Advisory's expertise
Carbone®
strategy consulting
Carbone®
CSRD
Strategy consulting
We support your corporate strategy by integrating Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) dimensions into the heart of your business model and development trajectory, in order to improve your overall performance, reduce risks, meet the growing expectations of your stakeholders and contribute to a sustainable future.
- Responsible: Legal and ethical obligation to consider social and environmental impacts and implement mitigation measures.
- Contributing: Exceeding legal obligations, contributing to solving social and environmental problems, embedding CSR strategy in the business model.
- Regenerative: Generating net positive impacts, restoring and regenerating living conditions, often in conjunction with a business model transformation.
The diagnosis
- To identify your strengths and weaknesses.
- To analyze your external issues.
- To define your short, medium and long term action levers.
Development of your Power Impact Matrix ®, a simple and unique tool to identify the impact of your organization and define your action levers.
- Materiality analysis: identification of priority action levers
- Carbon Footprint
- Ecological footprint: analysis of the pressure exerted by an organization’s activities on its ecosystem.
- CARE® Multi-Capital Accounting
Power Impact Matrix
What you can control
e.g. energy consumption, land use, raw materials, water consumption
e.g.: compensation, working hours, diversity, supplier monitoring
e.g.: strategic monitoring, management methods, value distribution
What you have to deal with
Ex: competition, technological innovation
Ex: climate change, erosion of biodiversity, changes in land use
e.g. public opinion, fashions, mores
e.g. regulations, subsidies, prohibitions
organization on its ecosystem
Your impact:
Ecological materiality*
e.g. net CO2 emissions, changes in biodiversity, air quality
E.g.: social utility of the activity, well-being of employees, HR and commercial attractiveness, health of the population
Ex: influence of organizational practices on peers or institutions
ecosystem on the organization
Risks and opportunities:
Simple or financial materiality
E.g.: damage to equipment or infrastructure due to extreme weather events
e.g.: financial losses related to stranded assets
development for an organization moving in the direction of social and environmental transitions
Prospective analysis
To anticipate developments in your industry, adjacent industries or potential future markets by identifying risks and opportunities.
Based on interviews with experts, a targeted literature search and analysis of the underlying trends affecting the organization.
Purpose and ambition
To give meaning to the transformation of your organization, to define your “essential”: your values and principles, your role in society, your internal culture, and to set a course, in qualitative and quantitative terms, in order to translate your raison d’être into concrete and engaging actions.
By carrying out a co-construction work based on internal interviews and collective intelligence workshops.
The strategic plan
To implement the ambition and ensure its success at the operational level.
By defining KPIs, setting up an agile and adapted governance to reach the objectives and engage your whole organization.
Fund raising
At July Advisory, we are convinced that major transformations – whether ecological, social or cultural – require innovative and responsible financing models.
That’s why we support the structuring of strategic partnerships and targeted fund-raising, at the interface between corporate philanthropy, environmental commitment and societal impact.
Your issues
- Mobilizing financing in a complex landscape
- Creating events that bring people together
- Structuring sustainable, credible partnerships
- Ensure professional follow-up and capitalize on each encounter
Our solutions
Turning intentions into real financial commitments.
Events that amplify your project and mobilize support.
– invitations and reminders,
– response tracking,
– contact mapping,
– post-event follow-up to convert discussions into partnerships.
Every interaction becomes an opportunity.
Mobilization of an active network: French and international institutions, patrons, investors, diplomats, cultural companies and private players.
Privileged access to accelerate your financing and open doors.
Sustainable finance
Your issues
- Assessing risks
– Physical risks induced in particular by climate change
– Transition risks associated with the move to a low-carbon economy - Improving long-term profitability by integrating ESG issues
- Meeting the expectations of society, from savers to public authorities
Our solutions
- ESG due diligence: analysis of your investment targets or disposal strategies
- Portfolio assessment: study of your portfolio’s alignment with ESG standards such as the Green Taxonomy or the Paris Agreement
- Structuring your investments: advice on how to integrate ESG issues into your investment processes and allocation strategies, particularly for the creation of Article 8 and Article 9 funds
- Training: state of the art and perspectives of sustainable finance: origins, key concepts, labels (e.g. SRI, Greenfin, Towards Sustainability), regulations (e.g. Green Taxonomy, CSRD, SFDR) and future challenges
Accounting
- Reconciling financial and extra-financial issues by offering an accounting and scientific approach to ESG issues
- Be ahead of the game and adopt an ambitious and systemic approach to its CSR strategy
- Anticipate regulatory requirements and future CSRD guidelines
Bilan Carbone ® (carbon footprint)
- Limit your vulnerability to fossil fuels
- Identify ways to reduce costs
- Get recognition for your approach and obtain CSR labels more easily
- Raising awareness of energy and climate issues among your employees and stakeholders
- Put your CSR strategy on a clear footing
The three scopes of the Bilan Carbone
CSRD support
We are at your side to implement CSRD in your organization, from the initial scoping phases through to the production of the sustainability report and the industrialization of reporting methods.
- Value chain study and stakeholder interviews
- Dual materiality analysis
- Gap analysis and roadmaps for key projects
- Organization of data collection
- Production of the sustainability report
