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Sustainability & ESG Reporting

OVERVIEW

We Help Elevate Your Sustainability, CSR and ESG Reporting


Our reporting experts help you create and showcase a sustainability story that reflects your commitment to progress.

For more than seven decades, clients have relied on our counsel, approach, award-winning design, and production of their corporate communications programs to ensure the most effective and impactful delivery of these materials to their stakeholders.

Our reporting services include consulting services and guidance on sustainability and ESG reporting strategy, content development, and customized design and production tailored to your specific needs in print, digital, or website formats.

We also provide customized sustainability training to help companies achieve their ESG goals faster and promote sustainable practices.

We have created some of our clients’ most visible and valued ESG communication materials. Check out our recent examples and resources to improve your next report.

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REPORTING SERVICES

How We Can Help

Our team of strategic and creative experts will assist you in creating a compelling sustainability narrative that showcases your dedication to making meaningful progress. We guide clients toward strong reporting strategies and communications.

DEFINE
ESG Reporting Strategy

Communicate ESG strategy, efforts, and results to address corporate goals for reporting

  • Sector benchmarking & gap analysis
  • Strategy counsel & goal-setting guidance
  • Stakeholder engagement, double materiality assessment & analysis
  • Reporting framework(s) selection guidance
  • Data collection, indexing & analysis
  • Ratings services and submissions
  • ESG training & facilitated workshops

DEVELOP
Content & Storytelling

Organize and showcase impactful examples of how your company is making a difference through written content, digital interactions, photography and videos

  • Subject matter expert interviews
  • Copywriting, editing & proofreading
  • Content organization
  • Photography & art direction
  • Video, scripting & editing

WHAT OUR CLIENTS SAY

“Not only did the team at OBATA successfully help us tell our sustainability story through design, words, and compelling graphics, but they created ways for us to share our commitments through social media images, an animated video clip, and a website banner to promote our inaugural report.”

Renesas Electronics Corporation, Vice President of Investor Relations and the Sustainability Promotion Office

“Our Sustainability Report is outstanding! We can’t thank you enough for all the strategic guidance and creative work that you and the team provided over the past few months.”

Champlain Investment Partners, Senior Associate, Director of Finance & Human Capital Management

“Thank you also for the beautiful design and attention to detail. I think it looks really great and is an excellent one-stop shop for all things ESG. So glad to have OBATA as our go-to partner!”

Fortune Brands, Director of Corporate Communications

“OBATA’s team created an excellent report for Farmer Brothers. We are very proud of it. The report is well-written, well-designed, and has a high impact. They truly helped us as an organization raise the bar and reflect the great work we have been doing for the coffee industry worldwide.”

Farmer Brothers, Senior Manager of Sustainability

DESIGN
Report & Publishing

Establish a clear strategy, messaging and creative to form the basis of all your creative communications

  • Custom thematic approaches
  • Custom design and layout of content with data
  • Infographics
  • Brand integration
  • Interactive & website solutions
  • Printing coordination & supervision

DEEPEN
Message Impact

Amplify your sustainability accomplishments to investors, employees and suppliers

  • Thought leadership promotion through traditional and digital media
  • Investor communications integration for road shows, investor presentations and Investor Day
  • Awareness & engagement programs and campaigns
  • Ratings agency submissions
  • Awards submissions

Book a Presentation

Whether new or experienced in ESG reporting, partner with us to focus on making your business sustainable, while we take care of the reporting process.

Contact our Marketing Director at (314) 256‑2207 or complete our Inquiry form.


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INAUGURAL REPORT

Developing Your First Sustainability Report?

There is a science and art to developing ESG and Sustainability Reports. Working with a reporting partner who can help guide you through the reporting process can help improve the outcome and ultimate success of your report.

We have also helped new clients with their inaugural ESG report. In these instances, having a GRI Certified Sustainability Professional as a member of our leadership team as well as others trained and certified in ESG fundamentals and disclosures by the Corporate Finance Institute (CFI) has been particularly helpful to our clients.

Check out our recent examples and resources to help you improve your next ESG or sustainability report.


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Inaugural ESG, CSR and sustainability reports completed since 2018


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Our Goal is to Build Effective and Reliable Partnerships with Our Clients


Over the years, we gained lots of experience working for companies from different industries. Understanding the peculiarities of the market our client is working in helps us effectively communicate to their stakeholders and improve their reporting.

CSR & Sustainability Reports:
Ascension
Ameren
B&G Foods
Champlain Investment Partners
Chevron Phillips Chemical
Compass Diversified
Cross Country Nursing
The Doe Run Company
Duke Energy
Farmer Brothers
L.E.K. Consulting
Microchip Technology
Peabody Energy
Renesas Electronics
Rheem
Stephen Gould

ESG Reports:
CTS Corporation
Duke Energy
ESCO Technologies
Fortune Brands Home & Security
Fortune Brands Innovations
MasterBrand
Peabody
Sarepta Therapeutics
TravelCenters of America
U.S. Well Services