Trucost Plc services

We provide a complete environmental footprint service across company operations, supply chains and product lifecycles including measurement of carbon, water, waste, pollutants, land use and commodity flows. Managing natural resource dependency and environmental impacts drives resource efficiency, cost savings, risk management and robust green credentials. But navigating the complexities of global emissions factors, regional resource constraints, intensifying environmental regulation, intricate reporting boundaries and protocols is no small task.

An Environmental Profit and Loss Account (EP&L) places a financial value on environmental impacts along the entire value chain of a business to help companies combine sustainability metrics with traditional business management.

We’ll help you optimize your products in line with global resource availability and environmental costs by assessing natural resource inputs and environmental impacts at every stage, from raw materials and production to customer use and ultimate disposal.

We’ll help you understand the environmental liabilities embedded in your supply chain and optimize your procurement strategy to reduce risk from local resource availability, commodity price rises and environmental costs. For most businesses, supply chains pose the greatest sustainability challenge since natural resource inputs and environmental impacts are often concealed within global supply chain tiers. We save you time and money by providing instant visibility of natural resource inputs and environmental impacts at each supply chain tier through advanced environmental modelling: our data and insight frequently shows that just 20% of suppliers are responsible for around 80% of natural resource dependency or environmental impact.

Trucost, a Gold CDP Partner, has been part of the development and application of international reporting standards for many years – you can be confident that we are well positioned to help you achieve best practice environmental reporting standards.

We’ll ensure that your environmental reporting is accurate and in line with global reporting standards including GRI, GHG Protocol, CDP, AA1000. We’ll also provide advice on how to optimize your reporting to achieve best practice credentials.

We provide the world’s most comprehensive natural capital data covering 93% of global markets by market capitalization to help investors embed natural capital considerations within traditional investment analysis. Natural capital impacts are often concealed within global supply chains. We use advanced environmental modelling to reveal liabilities at each tier of the value chain for holistic risk and opportunity analysis. We then apply standardized company disclosed natural capital data – and engage annually with the world`s largest companies to either confirm or improve our research by incorporating the latest non-disclosed information. You can be confident in our ability to provide complete and comprehensive natural capital metrics.

For banks, natural capital risk is mainly focused in lending and financing activities – yet few banks are actively managing this systemic risk. We help banks identify, monitor and report natural capital risk embedded in financing activities as a result of growing natural resource pressures and increasing environmental regulation. Our data and insight provides a fast assessment of natural capital risk by company, region or sector. We can rank and benchmark company performance and disclosure to support annual risk assessments. Or we can develop customized platforms to engage with companies in order to manage risk and promote best practice standards. We also provide a comprehensive range of time series natural capital metrics to support the development of new investment products or client services.

Portfolio audits help you to quickly assess the natural capital implications of investment portfolios though the traditional lens of portfolio attribution analysis. Our portfolio audits provide a comprehensive understanding of natural capital risk and opportunity at portfolio level or across consolidated holdings – including comparison to appropriate benchmarks to explain the effect of stock selection and sector allocation decisions. They support you in evaluating unanticipated bias to natural capital risk, highlight engagement issues – and help you meet increasing environmental reporting requirements, including UN PRI, CDP, GHG Protocol, investment mandates and stakeholder reporting.

Our data drives investment products from leading fund managers that deliver financial performance – with up to 50% reduced natural capital risk. We work with index providers, fund managers and pension funds to develop investment products that deliver financial performance alongside reduced risk from growing natural resource pressures and increasing environmental regulation. Our comprehensive range of time series natural capital metrics underpins active and passive investment strategies. Whether you want to generate alpha, reduce risk or track an investment benchmark, our expert analysts will support you every step of the way.