Double materiality as a compass, not a checkbox
For many organisations double materiality is a required step. Done well, it becomes your sharpest compass. It shows where your risks and your opportunities sit.
What double materiality means
You look in two directions. What is your organisation's impact on people and the planet, the impact side. And how do sustainability topics affect your organisation, the financial side. What weighs heavily on both belongs in your report and on your leadership table.
Why the analysis often stays thin
A materiality analysis built only to pass the audit becomes a form-filling exercise. The topics look right on paper, and nobody uses them to steer. We guide the analysis so it sharpens your strategy, with the right stakeholders and clear reasoning. See also from plan to practice.
Materiality sits under the theme Assess Progress
Our Embedding Framework is a wheel of thirteen themes and fifty-eight practices that together decide how deeply sustainability is anchored in an organisation. Double materiality sits under the theme Assess Progress: measuring, analysing and verifying what counts. It is the first step, and the ground your report stands or falls on.
Want to see where your organisation stands on Assess Progress, and on the other twelve themes, take the Embedding Scan. Forty minutes, thirteen themes, a structured read of your culture.
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