Should targets be ambitious or achievable?

Defensible. A target with a clear boundary, methodology and interim milestones is more valuable than an ambitious figure that cannot be evidenced or explained under scrutiny.

Does sustainability work reduce cost?

Energy, materials and waste work often does; some measures cost money and are undertaken for compliance or market access. We present both honestly rather than claiming everything pays back.

How does a sustainability strategy 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 sustainability strategy 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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Sustainability Strategy

We build sustainability strategy into the decisions that actually run the business — capital planning, procurement, product and site operations — rather than alongside them. A strategy that does not reach budgets and purchasing choices tends to stall, so we anchor each objective to the decision that delivers it. We set targets with explicit boundaries, base years and methodology, and we are honest that some measures pay back while others are costs undertaken for compliance or market access. The result is a plan the business can resource and a board can track against a stated baseline.

In short

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.

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What we do

The work inside sustainability strategy.

Baseline and hotspot analysis

We establish current environmental and social impacts and identify where they concentrate across operations and the value chain. Knowing where impact actually sits stops effort being spread evenly over areas that barely move the total.

Target setting

We set targets with defined boundaries, base years and a stated methodology, so each figure can be explained under scrutiny. A target that cannot survive the question of how it was derived does more harm than no target at all.

Operational integration

We build objectives into procurement, capital allocation and site management decisions, so they influence choices as they are made. Integration at the point of decision is what turns a published commitment into a change in how the business behaves.

Progress measurement

We measure and report progress against the baseline with the assumptions disclosed, including where progress has stalled. Honest measurement, variances and all, is what keeps a strategy credible over successive reporting cycles.

What you receive

Deliverables, in writing.

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

Impact baseline with hotspots identified
Targets with boundary, base year and methodology
Integration plan across operating decisions
Progress measurement framework

When this work helps

You may be facing this.

Sustainability commitments are not reflected in budgets
Targets were announced without a baseline
Progress cannot be measured against the original claim

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.

Related services

Often needed alongside this.

ESG Reporting & Disclosures

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

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 & GHG Emissions Assessment

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.

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