When ESG and climate rules become part of your listing or reporting obligations, good intentions are no longer enough. Boards and management teams need to be confident that what is reported externally truly reflects the organisation’s strategy, risks and performance.

For many manufacturers and service providers, the most direct pressure comes from key customers overseas. Questionnaires arrive more frequently, codes of conduct become stricter, and “pass or fail” decisions increasingly depend on ESG, labour and environmental performance.

For large groups and business networks, the main challenge is often not writing policies, but making sure people across multiple entities and countries understand them and can act on them. Different sites may be at very different maturity levels, and traditional one-off training sessions are rarely enough to change daily behaviour.