What is greenwashing risk in practice?

Publishing claims your evidence does not support, which increasingly carries regulatory and litigation exposure. We put a claims review control in place so every public statement is tested against its evidence.

Should ESG risks sit in a separate register?

No. A separate register gets separate attention and less of it. Integration with consistent scoring is what gets ESG risks funded and owned.

How does a esg risk management 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 risk management 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 Risk Management

We integrate ESG risks into enterprise risk management with named owners, defined appetite and regular reporting, so they are managed rather than reported in isolation. Risks held in a separate ESG schedule tend to attract separate, and usually less serious, attention, so we score them on the same basis as every other enterprise risk. Among the controls we design is a review of public sustainability claims before release, because greenwashing exposure now carries real regulatory and litigation risk. The outcome is a register the board recognises and acts on, not a parallel document that few people read.

In short

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.

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What we do

The work inside esg risk management.

ESG risk identification

We identify the environmental, social and governance risks specific to your operations and value chain, not a generic list. Grounding identification in your actual activities is what keeps the register relevant and stops it filling with risks that do not apply to you.

Integration with enterprise risk

We bring ESG risks into a single register with consistent scoring and clear ownership. Shared scoring is what lets them compete for attention and resource on equal terms with financial and operational risks.

Controls and greenwashing risk

We design controls that include a review of public claims before they are published. A claims-review step tests each statement against its evidence, which is the practical defence against the growing regulatory and litigation exposure around greenwashing.

Monitoring and reporting

We set indicators and report their movement to the board on a regular cadence. Watching the direction of travel, rather than revisiting risks once a year, is what allows a response before a risk crystallises.

What you receive

Deliverables, in writing.

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

ESG risk register integrated with enterprise risk
Consistent scoring and ownership assignment
Control set including claims review
Monitoring indicators and reporting format

When this work helps

You may be facing this.

ESG risks are discussed but absent from the risk register
Public sustainability claims are not reviewed before release
Regulatory change in this area is not being tracked

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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Often needed alongside this.

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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 & Analytics

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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.

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