Govern · Services
ESG consulting at Fidova is about credibility: deciding what genuinely matters for your organisation, measuring it with data you can defend, and reporting only what the evidence supports. We start with materiality and data, because commitments made without a measurement basis become exposure once someone asks you to substantiate them. The same control and audit discipline that finance applies to financial numbers is applied here to non-financial ones, with a clear trail from each published claim back to its source and calculation basis. We are not an assurance provider and do not issue assurance opinions, but we build the measurement, controls, and audit trail that make independent assurance achievable. The connected view matters because credible ESG reporting draws on the same governance, evidence, and enterprise-system discipline as the rest of the business.
In short
Fidova's ESG consulting builds credible governance, measurement, and reporting practice around environmental and social priorities, so disclosures rest on evidence. We apply the same control and audit discipline to non-financial numbers that finance expects of financial ones, and test every public claim against its evidence before it is published.
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What we do
Determine which environmental, social, and governance topics are material to your business and stakeholders, and set aside the rest. Trying to report everything produces thin data on topics nobody asked about, so we concentrate effort where it matters to your sector and your stakeholders. The outcome is a defensible basis for what you measure and disclose, and for what you do not.
Establish board and management oversight, decision rights, and ownership for ESG commitments. We name who owns each commitment and who reviews progress, so ESG is managed like the rest of the business rather than as a separate reporting exercise. That ownership is what turns a public pledge into something the organisation can actually deliver.
Define the metrics, data sources, calculation basis, and controls needed for numbers that survive scrutiny. We fix how each figure is calculated and where it comes from, so a number can be reproduced and defended rather than reassembled differently each cycle. The result is measurement an assurance provider, investor, or regulator can follow.
Prepare disclosures against the frameworks relevant to your market, with a clear audit trail from claim to source. We map data once so it can serve several disclosures, rather than rebuilding it per framework. Each statement traces to its evidence, so the report can withstand a reader who checks.
Extend requirements, due diligence, and data collection to the suppliers whose practices affect your position. We take a realistic view of what supplier data quality allows you to state, so your disclosures do not outrun the evidence beneath them. The aim is supply chain reporting you can stand behind, not estimates presented as fact.
Test public statements against the underlying evidence and calculation basis before they are published. Claims that the evidence does not support are rewritten or removed rather than softened. That protects the organisation from a disclosure becoming a liability once someone examines it.
Sub-services
Each service below has its own page setting out the work, the deliverables and the questions buyers ask before starting.
ESG strategy and advisory sets out which environmental, social and governance topics matter to your business and what you will do about them. It turns a scattered set of expectations into a defined position the board can stand behind.
ESG assessment and gap analysis measures your current position against the frameworks and expectations that apply to you. It gives you an honest reading of the distance still to travel before the numbers you publish can be defended.
Sustainability strategy sets environmental and social objectives that are integrated into how the business actually operates. It is the difference between objectives that shape decisions and objectives that sit beside them in a separate document.
ESG reporting and disclosures produce statements that are complete, comparable and traceable to evidence. Every figure should carry a defined source and a control behind it, not just a plausible number on the page.
Sustainability reporting communicates environmental and social performance to investors, customers and regulators with consistent data. Consistency across sites and years is what lets readers compare, and comparability is where most reports quietly fail.
Carbon accounting quantifies greenhouse gas emissions across scopes 1, 2 and 3 with documented boundaries and factors. A credible inventory is one that can be reproduced from the same source data by someone who did not build it.
Net-zero and decarbonisation strategy sets a credible pathway of actual emission reductions, with residual emissions treated honestly. A date on its own is not a strategy; the pathway that gets you there is.
Climate risk assessment evaluates physical and transition risks to your operations, assets and value chain under different scenarios. Its value is operational as much as regulatory: it tells you which sites and product lines are actually exposed.
Environmental impact assessment evaluates the environmental effects of operations or projects and the measures to mitigate them. A sound assessment establishes the baseline first, so that significance can be judged against conditions as they actually are.
Energy and resource efficiency work reduces energy, water and material use through measured, prioritised interventions. The discipline that sets it apart is verifying savings after the fact, not assuming the estimate held.
Sustainable supply chain management sets and verifies environmental and social expectations across your suppliers. The test of such a programme is whether the expectations are verified in practice, not whether a code of conduct has been signed.
Social impact assessment evaluates effects on workers, communities and other stakeholders, and the measures that address them. An assessment made without talking to the people affected is routinely wrong, so engagement sits at its core.
Diversity and inclusion advisory uses workforce data and process review to identify where practice, not intent, produces unequal outcomes. It treats divergent outcomes as a question about process design, not about the goodwill of individuals.
Corporate governance advisory strengthens board effectiveness, decision rights, policies and disclosure quality. Its measure is the quality of the decisions the board actually makes, not the thickness of the papers it receives.
ESG risk management brings environmental, social and governance risks into the same register and process as other enterprise risks. A risk kept in its own schedule gets its own, lesser, attention; integration is what gets it owned and funded.
ESG due diligence assesses environmental, social and governance risks and liabilities in a transaction target. It is as much about testing the target's own ESG claims as about uncovering the liabilities it has not disclosed.
ESG data management establishes the systems, definitions and controls that make sustainability data reliable and repeatable. Reliability comes from fixing definitions and sources first; software only ever digitises the process it is given.
BRSR reporting prepares the Business Responsibility and Sustainability Report required of specified listed Indian companies. The core indicators within it are subject to reasonable assurance, so the data behind them must be held to that standard from the outset.
GRI reporting prepares sustainability disclosure in line with the Global Reporting Initiative standards. It rests on an impact-based materiality process, so the topics reported are the ones the organisation most affects in the world.
SASB and ISSB alignment prepares investor-focused sustainability disclosure of financially material information. Its question is narrower than impact reporting: what sustainability matters could affect enterprise value.
TCFD-aligned climate disclosure covers governance, strategy, risk management, and metrics and targets for climate. The TCFD structure now underpins the ISSB climate standard, so work done well here carries directly into IFRS S2.
CSRD readiness prepares an organisation for European sustainability reporting requirements and the ESRS standards. Double materiality and the ESRS data point gap analysis define the whole scope of the work, so they come first.
ESG ratings and benchmarking work improves how your disclosure is assessed by rating agencies and compares you against peers. Much of what depresses a rating is undisclosed information you already hold, not weaker performance.
Sustainable finance advisory supports green and sustainability-linked financing across eligibility, frameworks, KPIs and reporting. The credibility of such financing rests on KPIs that are material and genuinely ambitious, not ones you would have met anyway.
ESG training builds the practical understanding boards, functions and site teams need to deliver and report ESG commitments. It is pitched at what each audience is actually responsible for, not at ESG in the abstract.
What you receive
Every engagement produces documented output your teams keep and can act on without us in the room.
When this work helps
How an engagement runs
Understand your sector, stakeholders, existing commitments, and the requests you are receiving. We establish who is asking you for ESG information and what you have already committed to publicly, so the work answers real pressure rather than a generic checklist.
Review material topics, current data, governance, and the gap to the reporting you need to produce. We report plainly where your current numbers would not withstand scrutiny and what it would take to close the gap.
Define metrics, ownership, data flows, controls, and a reporting approach you can repeat. The design fixes how each number is produced and who owns it, so reporting becomes a repeatable process rather than an annual scramble.
Implement the measurement and governance changes, and review disclosures against the evidence. We test every public claim against its source before publication, so what you disclose is what you can defend.
Where we work
Fidova provides ESG consulting from Delhi, India, and works with organisations internationally, including those reporting under global frameworks and responding to customer, investor, and supply chain requirements from other markets.
Engagements run in English, are scheduled around your time zone, and can be delivered remotely end to end. Where a phase benefits from being in the room — discovery workshops, go-live support, or on-site review — we plan that time explicitly.
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Questions
Straight answers to what buyers ask us before an engagement begins.
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