Our Boundaries and Our View
Reporting
✔ We are not specifically ESG consultants. ESG reporting as a financial factor is within our scope but we do not directly deliver ESG reporting support.
✔ We are not specifically CSRD consultants. We address CSRD within scope mainly as a perspective for evaluating impact.
✔ What we can do is assist with finding appropriate reporting solutions and interpretation of requirements.
✔ For us, reporting is very much a lens to examine the nature and outcome of sustainability activity, which should foremost look for impact.
Our perspective on the state of sustainability in the maritime sector
Here follows some headline opinions based on observation relative to our understanding. It requires support by peer reviewed high integrity research.
As an industry globally, ocean shipping is overwhelmingly compliance based with regard to sustainability.Despite high volumes of communication noise there is relatively little leadership for progression of true sustainability issues beyond compliance.
Decarbonisation (GHG emission reduction) and ESG (a reporting framework) are usually considered to cover and confused with sustainability.
There are few conversations about real positive impact, about reversing trends toward planetary boundary tipping points or hands on work for J&E community engagement for instance. We refer to J&E treatment outside the IMO GHG context here.
The industry is not educated, aware and highly concerned about the sustainability “why” as it is not affecting business.
The industry often considers its participation in growth as a positive sustainability factor, ignoring the downsides of trade growth when not engaged in responsibly.