Sustainability & Climate Consulting

Our Sustainability & Climate Consulting practice provides end-to-end services in the areas of climate risk and adaptation, decarbonization, corporate sustainability and ESG.

Given the growing importance of disclosures, significant data integrity requirements,
and varied and disaggregated data sources, enabling the sustainability journey through technology is essential. With a unique blend of strong sustainability and climate domain capabilities and technology, we are well-placed to assist organizations in achieving their long-term sustainability goals.

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Our Services

Climate Action
Corporate Sustainability, Reporting & Ratings
Sustainable Finance
Partnering with PE & VC Funds
Training & Awareness
Internal Control Frameworks & Assurance Readiness

Our Climate Change and Sustainability Strategies will empower you to navigate the intricate sustainability landscape effectively, allowing you to take measures to identify competitive advantages, enhance operational efficiency, reduce risk, and advance innovation. The importance of climate action for an organization is multifaceted and growing, driven by a combination of risks, opportunities, and increasing stakeholder expectations. Ignoring climate change is no longer a viable option for businesses looking for long-term sustainability and success.

Climate action services involve the development and execution of climate change strategies, decarbonization roadmap and biodiversity assessment. It involves responsible resource use for a more sustainable future whilst focusing on the financial impact.

Corporate Sustainability and Responsibility encompass a wide range of initiatives and practices aimed at integrating environmental, social, and governance-related matters into a company’s business strategy and interactions with stakeholders.

It involves identifying sustainability-related topics that affect the organization and assisting them in framing a strategy to adopt sustainable practices and reporting on them. Another important facet is identifying metrics for stakeholder communications so that there is a better appreciation of sustainability-related risks and opportunities faced by an organization and the manner in which they are being dealt with. Further, services related to ESG Standards & Disclosures play a vital role in helping organizations embed sustainability and ethical business practices into their stakeholder communications. 

Sustainable finance focuses on aligning investments with ESG goals to drive long-term, responsible growth. It enables businesses to identify and manage internal and external ESG opportunities and risks, implement effective strategies, and embed these changes into core business operations. 

This approach ensures compliance, enhances transparency and provides a competitive edge. We assist you in making informed financial decisions that balance economic returns with ESG metrics, positioning your organization for strategic growth and resilience in the sustainable marketplace.

ESG metrics have become a vital tool for PE and VC funds to evaluate the sustainability and long-term value of potential investments. Strategic ESG integration is crucial for aligning with investor expectations, enhancing value creation, and optimizing exit strategies while building a positive reputation and ensuring regulatory compliance.

These funds face increasing complexity in integrating ESG considerations while navigating evolving regulations and diverse portfolio needs. We partner with PE and VC funds to address these challenges, enabling them to integrate sustainability into their investment strategies and drive long-term growth and differentiation. We perform ESG due diligences and assist PE and VC funds in reporting to their LPs and also with reporting under frameworks such as the UNPRI, SFDR, EDCI, etc.

Our Sustainability/ESG Training and Awareness Program emphasizes the critical importance of ESG and sustainability principles across various industries. We offer in-depth insights gained through our consulting work to enhance learning outcomes.

Our training pedagogy is designed to enhance both theoretical understanding and practical implementation of ESG standards and frameworks such as GRI, ISSB, CSRD, TCFD. Our goal is to demystify complex sustainability topics such as decarbonization, climate change and guide organizations in taking meaningful actions to improve their environmental impact, social responsibility, and governance practices. By engaging with industry professionals and addressing their needs for practical application, we provide targeted support to help integrate sustainability/ESG principles effectively within their operations.

Our Internal Control Frameworks and Assurance Readiness service is designed to fortify your organization’s governance and reporting processes amidst rising non-financial data (ESG) disclosure demands. We specialize in developing robust internal controls and conducting thorough readiness assessments to ensure that your ESG data is accurate, transparent, and compliant with regulatory expectations. 

By leveraging our expertise, you can confidently meet stakeholder demands and enhance the reliability of your sustainability/ESG disclosures, positioning your organization for sustained success in a dynamic market.

Why Us?

At Uniqus we believe that a simple alteration in the way companies approach sustainability can unveil new horizons with limitless possibilities

Our deep expertise

Anu Chaudhary, our Sustainability & Climate Consulting leader, has over 25 years of experience partnering with diverse businesses and government sector entities across the globe on their sustainability and climate change journey. Anu is supported by a strong set of leaders and a large global team across the USA, India & Middle East with diverse experience across industry and the consulting world.

Deep and diverse talent pool and globally integrated delivery model

Being a company specializing in sustainability and climate action as a core solution, we are a hotbed for high-quality talent in this area. Our talent pool is fully integrated, collaborating seamlessly across our key markets of the USA, India, and the Middle East. We leverage large top talent pools in lower-cost economies to provide high quality and cost efficiency to our clients.

Integrating consulting and technology

Our technology-driven approach empowers us to provide comprehensive end-to-end implementation assistance using our proprietary technology product, ESG UniVerse. This allows us to not only conceptualize effective solutions but also seamlessly integrate and implement them, ensuring a holistic and streamlined approach to meet your organizational needs.

Bringing accounting rigor to sustainability reporting

We integrate our knowledge & experience in the sustainability domain with equally strong capabilities in the areas of financial reporting, internal controls, auditing standards and regulatory reporting.

Agility & responsiveness

Our team embodies the essence of agility and responsiveness, fostering a dynamic environment where adaptability and quick responses are integral to our operations. We are not restricted by auditor independence conflicts, which further creates a frictionless environment to serve our clients.

Driving Change: Client Success Stories

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Institutionalizing ESG agenda for a leading textile manufacturer

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Pre-Acquisition ESG Due Diligence for a PE Firm

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Our Leaders

Anu Chaudhary

Partner, Global Head of Sustainability & Climate Consulting

Dr. Elena Primikiri

Partner, Sustainability & Climate Consulting | Dubai, UAE

Nirav Patel

Partner, Sustainability & Climate Consulting | Mumbai, India

Dr. Rajesh Nair

Partner, Sustainability & Climate Consulting | Bengaluru, India

Ashish Ranjan

Associate Partner, Sustainability & Climate Consulting | Mumbai, India

Matt Berner

Managing Director, Sustainability & Climate Consulting | California, USA

Akanksha Sinha

Director, Sustainability & Climate Consulting | Bengaluru, India

Mugdha Raut

Director, Sustainability & Climate Consulting | Mumbai, India

Nachiketa Das

Director, Sustainability & Climate Consulting | Mumbai, India

Vaibhav Gupta

Director, Sustainability & Climate Consulting | Gurugram, India
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Anu Chaudhary

Partner, Global Head of Sustainability
& Climate Consulting

Anu is an internationally recognized leader in the sustainability domain with rich experience of over 25 years. She has worked extensively in varied areas such as Low Carbon Technologies, Corporate Sustainability, Climate Action, Corporate Social Responsibility, and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). As a part of this journey, she has interacted and worked closely with governments, non-governmental organizations, and the private sector across Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas, including the United Nations (Germany), American National Accreditation Board (US), and the Gold Standard Foundation (Switzerland).

Anu worked in the Climate Action & Sustainability vertical of DNV Europe for over a decade and led the Corporate Sustainability group for Tata Technologies. Anu has also worked closely with Ford in North America. In 2016, Anu started her own ESG firm, SustainPlus, which provided a range of services across sectors to clients in India, Europe, the Middle East, and the USA.

Anu has been conferred with several awards and recognitions over the years, including the CII Women Corporate Leadership Award for ESG, the Most Influential Sustainability Leaders of India, and the Sheroes Award for exemplary work in Sustainability. She has also been featured in the British High Commission’s publication dedicated to Top Women Leaders recognized for their significant contribution to the UN SDGs.

Anu finds her creative fulfillment in painting. She is a voracious reader, loves to travel, meet new people, and is always happy to learn something new.

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Nirav Patel

Partner, Sustainability &
Climate Consulting

Nirav is an Indian Chartered Accountant with more than 20 years of experience providing accounting advisory and assurance services to clients across sectors.
 
He has considerable experience with international reporting, internal control, and governance standards and has been involved with several capital market transactions. During his career, Nirav has worked across Big 4 firms in India and the UK and has been a part of the technical accounting team of KPMG in the UK.
 
At Uniqus, Nirav will spend time in both our SCC and ARC practices to make his financial reporting & assurance experience available to our clients, particularly as they strengthen their sustainability reporting systems, processes, and controls around non-financial data.
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Dr. Rajesh Nair

Partner, Sustainability &
Climate Consulting

Rajesh has been an entrepreneur, policy consultant, and researcher in the Climate Change, Sustainability, and Energy Analytics space, with close to 22 years of experience. He holds a PhD in Public Policy from IIM Ahmedabad.

During his career, he has worked closely with policy makers (including the Indian Prime Minister’s Office), the private sector, DFIs, and civil society in promoting Climate Change Mitigation and Sustainable Development. His entrepreneurial ventures have been in the Climate Tech and Blockchain space. Prior to joining Uniqus, he was a Partner with ERM, leading their Climate Change and Sustainability Practice for South Asia. He has global experience, having worked in Japan at NIES and having set up an office in Houston as part of his venture Ecologix. He has published extensively on climate mitigation, including in peer-reviewed international journals, and has spoken at international conferences. His publications have been cited in the Nobel Peace Prize-winning IPCC’s Fourth Assessment Report. He also has a passion to teach and has taken sessions at his alma mater IIM Ahmedabad, IIM Bangalore and XLRI.

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Matt Berner

Managing Director, Sustainability &
Climate Consulting

Matt brings over 18 years of ESG experience to Uniqus, having spent his career developing broad expertise across the ESG domain. Matt’s diverse experience includes advising high-growth companies as a trusted management consultant, in-house roles at multinational corporations, and investment stewardship roles focused on ESG research and analysis.

Prior to joining Uniqus, Matt was most recently Managing Director of ESG Advisory for Gilmartin Group LLC, a strategic consulting and investor relations firm. At Gilmartin Group, Matt established and led the firm’s ESG consulting practice, working with client organizations to develop and maintain effective ESG strategies, reporting, and investor relations. Previously, Matt was Director of Corporate Responsibility for CooperCompanies, a global medical device company. As Cooper’s first head of ESG, Matt managed all aspects of the company’s ESG program, including strategy development and implementation, design and execution of action plans to improve ESG performance, and investor and rating agency engagement to strengthen perception and company reputation. Much of Matt’s ESG expertise comes from his time at Chevron Corporation, a global energy company where he spent over 11 years in ESG-focused roles of increasing responsibility. Matt worked across a variety of functions and geographies at Chevron, providing him broad exposure to areas such as climate change strategy and reporting, natural resource use, ethics and compliance, internal controls, and corporate governance.

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Dr. Elena Primikiri

Partner, Sustainability &
Climate Consulting

Dr. Elena Primikiri is a Greek national who comes with a rich experience of over 20 years in the consulting, academia, and banking sectors. She holds two Masters, and a PhD from the University of Michigan, and Harvard University.

During her career, she has led sustainability strategies and implemented numerous ESG policies, programs, and practices across the globe & across sectors. She has extensive experience in sustainable finance, multiple reporting frameworks, external ratings, and certifications. Prior to joining Uniqus, she has held multiple senior roles, including Head of ESG worldwide at VFS Global (a Blackstone company), and Director of Sustainable Banking at Piraeus Bank.

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Akanksha Sinha

Director, Sustainability &
Climate Consulting

Akanksha is a sustainability professional with over 12 years of experience and has been associated with EY Global Services and KPMG India in the past. She comes with experience in undertaking due diligence studies for large organizations across diverse sectors and geographies, helping clients through their non-financial reporting & assurance journey, designing and implementing sustainability strategies and EHS management systems for clients and their supply chain.

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Mugdha Raut

Director, Sustainability &
Climate Consulting

Mugdha is a Chartered Accountant with over 12 years of experience and has been associated with EY and KPMG in the past in their consulting practices. Mugdha has extensive experience in various ESG and sustainability areas such as non-financial ESG reporting and other ESG disclosures like business responsibility reports, benchmarking current ESG performance against leading industry practices, and developing ESG strategies and roadmaps for many leading companies in India. She has helped many of her clients in improving their ESG performance ratings, and in deployment of ESG technology solutions.

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Nachiketa Das

Director, Sustainability &
Climate Consulting

Nachiketa brings over 12 years of experience in delivering strategic consulting services across ESG data and analytics, impact assessments, and sustainability disclosures. He has worked with clients in diverse sectors including Chemicals, Consumer Goods, Utilities, Construction, Manufacturing, and Financial Services. Additionally, Nachiketa has rich experience developing SaaS platforms for measuring material stakeholder impacts on UN sustainability goals. Prior to joining Uniqus, he was associated with Deloitte and GIST.

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Ashish Ranjan

Associate Partner, Sustainability & Climate Consulting

Ashish brings over 15 years of experience in sustainability and ESG, including 13 years with KPMG in India and the USA. He has partnered with corporates across India, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, Europe, Africa, and North America, helping them design and implement comprehensive sustainability strategies and agendas. His expertise spans sustainability and decarbonization strategy, sustainable finance, and sustainability-related regulatory and voluntary reporting.

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Vaibhav Gupta

Director, Sustainability & Climate Consulting

Vaibhav brings over 15 years of diverse experience spanning industry, development finance institutions, think tanks, and consulting. He has led several high-impact initiatives in climate policy, decarbonization strategies for hard-to-abate sectors, climate finance, and carbon markets, among other areas. A recognized thought leader, Vaibhav has presented his work at leading international forums and climate summits. Prior to joining Uniqus, he was associated with KPMG.

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