Can ratings be improved quickly?

Often meaningfully, because many gaps are disclosure gaps — data you hold but never published. Genuine performance improvement takes longer and we distinguish the two clearly.

Should we chase ratings?

Only where they affect access to capital or customers. We recommend prioritising the ratings your stakeholders actually use rather than all of them.

How does a esg ratings & benchmarking engagement start?

With a short discovery conversation and a written view of scope, risk and the decisions to be made. That view is useful to you whether or not the work continues.

How is a esg ratings & benchmarking engagement priced?

Scope and, where relevant, rules of engagement are agreed in writing before any work begins, and the engagement is a fixed fee for that scope or phased with a cost envelope per phase — so you know the cost and the boundaries up front. Larger pieces of work are broken into phases with findings delivered early rather than a single invoice at the end.

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ESG Ratings & Benchmarking

We analyse how rating agencies score you, indicator by indicator, and separate the places where a disclosure gap rather than a performance gap is dragging the result down. Many ratings can be improved meaningfully simply by publishing data you already have but never disclosed, and we distinguish those quick wins from the slower work of genuine performance improvement. We benchmark your disclosure and performance against relevant peers so the comparison is fair rather than anecdotal. We also recommend prioritising the ratings your stakeholders actually use, rather than chasing every questionnaire in circulation.

In short

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.

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What we do

The work inside esg ratings & benchmarking.

Rating analysis

We analyse your current scores and the methodology behind them, indicator by indicator. Understanding how each rater builds its score is what turns a frustrating headline number into a specific list of things that can be addressed.

Disclosure gap identification

We separate genuine performance gaps from information you hold but have never disclosed. Making that distinction is what lets the easy, high-value disclosure gaps be closed quickly while the harder performance work is planned honestly.

Peer benchmarking

We compare your disclosure and performance against a relevant set of peers. A fair benchmark shows where you genuinely lag and where you simply disclose less, which keeps the response proportionate.

Submission and tracking

We support questionnaire submissions and track how scores move across successive cycles. Watching the movement over time is what shows whether the changes made are actually registering with the raters your stakeholders rely on.

What you receive

Deliverables, in writing.

Documented output your teams keep and can act on without us in the room.

Rating analysis by indicator
Disclosure gap list with quick wins identified
Peer benchmark comparison
Submission support and score tracking

When this work helps

You may be facing this.

An ESG rating is lower than performance warrants
Customers or investors cite your rating in discussions
Questionnaires are completed differently each year

How an engagement runs

Discover, assess, design, deliver.

01
Discover
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.
02
Assess
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.
03
Design
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.
04
Deliver
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

Delhi, India — and wherever the work is.

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, with on-site time planned where a phase genuinely benefits from being in the room.

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