Sustainability Technology and Data

Make your climate actions count. With targeted, tailored, tech-powered solutions.

Boosting results with sustainable data

Unlocking growth beyond ESG compliance: Is your sustainability performance digitally enabled?

In an era of increasing sustainability reporting requirements such as the EU Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), the Swiss Responsible Business Initiative (RBI), climate and nature reporting requirements and supply chain responsibility, Swiss companies increasingly need sustainability data to build robust processes, make informed decisions and demonstrate their commitment to responsible and ethical business practices. The common solution to meet all these regulatory requirements, stakeholder demands, and market obligations? Robust process data and IT systems. Businesses can no longer rely on manual and informal processes or simple spreadsheets for sustainability reporting. 

Alexander Schultz-Wirth
Partner, Customer Transformation and Technology Consulting
PwC Switzerland

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By implementing powerful technologies, we enable companies to take the lead in sustainability performance and stay ahead of the regulatory requirements, rather than just meeting basic compliance standards.

Susanne ConradDirector, Strategy, Sustainability & Transformation, PwC Switzerland

Use the right tools to create sustainable business value

At PwC, we understand that developing and implementing a sustainability technology strategy can be a complex process. That is why we offer a comprehensive suite of services to help you every step of the way. 

Whether you are just starting out or want to optimise your strategy, our team of experts is here to help. Here are some important steps you need to take and the tailored solutions we can help you with:

  • Defining the requirements 
    Conduct a detailed materiality assessment to determine the tech and data needs of your company for compliance with global regulations.

  • Setting your sustainability framework
    Establish a comprehensive sustainability framework and precise data points for tracking.
  • Aligning sustainability ambitions with your corporate strategy
    Ensure that your sustainability goals are aligned with your business strategy.
  • Assessment of current IT landscape
    Evaluate your current IT landscape's capability for handling sustainability data.

  • Integration of sustainability data into existing processes and IT system
    Incorporate sustainability data seamlessly into your existing processes and IT systems using a unified data model. 

  • Practical implementation of sustainability solutions
    Deploy tools and processes for efficient ESG data collection, analysis, and reporting.

PwC can help you integrate and standardise data from multiple sources across your organisation using a unified data model approach to minimise your data collection resources. We design integrated sustainability solutions tailored to your different sustainability data and reporting challenges. No single technology solution meets all ESG requirements. We harmonise systems to enable efficient, investor-friendly sustainability reporting.

PwC's approach of a people- and business-led technology-enabled transformation is about solving business problems in a way that they are supported and enabled by technology, but not driven by technology alone.

Michele FerrariPartner, Finance & Technology Consulting, PwC Switzerland

More than a technical solution

To ensure the success of these steps, PwC has formed strategic partnerships with leading technology firms worldwide. Together with our alliance partners, we offer a comprehensive range of services designed to implement your sustainability strategy effectively, and with minimal disruption to your daily operations. 

By combining our team’s sustainability and regulatory expertise and our alliance partners' technological knowledge, we can help your business meet all its sustainability goals. In addition, our collaborative approach is designed to future-proof your business, enabling you to create added business value in your markets and prepare for the challenges of tomorrow. 

Unlocking the power of implementing sustainability technology

Beyond mere regulatory compliance, investing in sustainability tools and technologies offers a range of compelling advantages that can transform your business and create added business value. Here's how:

  • Enhance data management: Solidly built tech systems and data management practices streamline the collection, processing, and reporting of sustainability data. This not only ensures compliance but also increases data accuracy, reliability, and efficiency in managing sustainability metrics. 

  • Drive cost efficiency: Leveraging sustainability data goes beyond reporting; it optimises operations, leading to cost savings through more efficient resource utilisation, improved energy management, and reduced emissions. 

  • Uncover innovative growth potential: By using sustainability data, you can align your offerings with customer preferences for sustainable products and services, potentially expanding your customer base and tapping into new, innovative growth opportunities. 

  • Enable strategic decision making: Sustainability data helps you make informed decisions about capital investments, market expansion, product portfolios, and mergers and acquisitions, leading to improved enterprise value and cost of capital.

Frequently asked questions

There is a wide range of technology solutions in the sustainability space, including reporting softwares, GHG accounting tools, supply chain monitoring, trace and track platforms, ESG rating services and ESG analytics platforms. The right solution for your organisation depends on your specific needs, data architecture and regulatory framework.

To select the right technology solutions, you should first assess your current sustainability practices, reporting, risks, and opportunities. This typically starts with a Technology Maturity Assessment, which provides your organisation with an analysis of where you are and a benchmark of where you should be.

To implement sustainability solutions for your business, you need to choose the right approach, integrate it with your IT systems, streamline data processing, analyse it, and report on business performance in relation to sustainability indicators. Successful implementation requires a clear plan, resource allocation, and stakeholder engagement.

Such solutions bring a range of benefits, including reducing costs and risks, creating new opportunities for growth, and innovation. They also help companies set more ambitious goals and track them in real time.

Put tech and data to work for your sustainability programme – together with us

We look forward to hearing from you to discuss your specific challenges and needs.

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Craig Stevenson

Partner, Sustainability & Climate Change Leader, Advisory , PwC Switzerland

+41 78 975 08 62

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Michele Ferrari

Partner, Finance & Technology Consulting, Zug, PwC Switzerland

+41 58 792 69 18

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Alexander Schultz-Wirth

Partner, Leader Customer Transformation, PwC Switzerland

+41 58 792 47 97

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Susanne Conrad

Director, Strategy, Sustainability & Transformation, Zug, PwC Switzerland

+41 79 199 13 71

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Rodolphe Dehaspe

Manager, Sustainability Technology & Data, Lausanne, PwC Switzerland

+41 76 268 94 00

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Jean-Pierre Manfredi

Managing Director, Technology Consulting, Zürich, PwC Switzerland

+41 58 792 17 61

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