Sustainability and ESG strategy services

In Strategy and Transactions

EY teams can help you create long-term sustainability and ESG value through strategy, M&A, capital allocation, ESG due diligence and portfolio optimization.

Related topics Sustainability Climate change and sustainability Sustainable development goals Strategy and Transactions Strategy by EY-Parthenon

The team

Seth Reynolds

Seth Reynolds

EY Americas Sustainability Leader

Scaling-up sustainability through collaboration

Learn from two of the world's biggest consumer companies on why a stakeholder ecosystem is key to accelerating sustainability.

What EY sustainability and ESG strategy teams can do for you

There are many factors driving sustainability and wider environmental social governance (ESG) issues to the top of your agenda: government incentives and regulations; investor standards; customer sentiment; and the views of your workforce and broader society. Whether you are a public or private company, government institution, investor or financial stakeholder, we help you to transform your ESG and sustainability strategy to protect and help create new sources of short and long-term value creation.

Your challenges may include decarbonization and energy transition, eMobility, sustainable sourcing, or ensuring human rights in the supply chain. Our support will help you reframe your strategy, through scenario planning, value creation, business model reinvention and portfolio optimization. Our support will also help you accelerate your transition, through M&A, divestments, restructuring, green finance and strategic capital allocation, green infrastructure and decommissioning, economic and climate risk assessment, and advice on the tax implications of ESG. In short, we can help you design and realize your ESG and sustainability ambitions. 

Our sector and functional depth of experience and the breadth of our integrated multidisciplinary capabilities across more than 120 countries help you deliver better sustainability strategy. We work with you to manage not only the financial value, but also the people, customer/commercial and societal impact of your ESG journey, while retaining a focus on the creation and protection of long-term value for all your stakeholders. 

We understand that every business has highly differentiated ESG challenges. Our multidisciplinary teams can assist you with your unique priorities, operating model and commercial ambition to navigate today’s complex environment, and help you to achieve your business objectives. We focus on real-world practical pathways to building a better future for you, your people and your organization.

We offer the support you need to meet your key challenges:

  1. What are the ESG and sustainability trends that will impact my business?
  2. How do I understand all stakeholder needs so that I can deliver on their expectations?
  3. How do I create an ESG and sustainability strategy and ambition that delivers competitive advantage and creates and protects value for stakeholders?
  4. What is my journey to net zero?
  5. How do I protect and create value for the environment?
  6. How do I finance my corporation for the long-term and effectively manage capital allocation?
  7. What are the implications for my M&A, including divestments, strategy and execution?

Services and offerings

We are on your ESG and sustainability strategy journey with you.

Explore the full breadth of our value-led sustainability and ESG services at EY Sustainability.

How to design and deliver ESG strategy?

Learn how sustainability leaders are rethinking ESG strategy to build stakeholder trust and deliver long-term value. 

Tulip Fields Burgervlotbrug Netherlands

Value-led sustainability is everybody’s business

EY is committed to making business work for sustainability and making sustainability work for business.

Learn more

Contact us

Like what you’ve seen? Get in touch to learn more.

Contact us

How EY can help

Corporate and growth strategy

EY-Parthenon teams help develop and deliver strategic opportunities for clients by providing in-depth market, competitor and customer insight — incorporating financial, operational and implementation perspectives across their entire organization.

Read more
Restructuring and turnaround strategy

The COVID-19 pandemic will require many organizations to significantly reshape their strategy. The next wave of strategic change must focus on financial and business restructuring or a turnaround strategy that can be implemented with speed and certainty. We provide trusted leadership in urgent, critical and complex situations to transform, create, preserve and recover value.

Read more
Transaction strategy and execution

EY-Parthenon teams can support you with the development, evaluation and end-to-end execution of your transaction strategy. We deliver operational due diligence, deal management, functional support (e.g. IT, Finance) and value creation advice and support. We advise our clients early to navigate transaction risk and increase value, from deal inception, to execution, and then driving toward longer-term transformation.

Read more
Operational separation

Our teams help clients successfully separate processes, people and systems, and focus on key value drivers, during the sale or spin-off of a business unit, division or an entire entity.

Read more
Geostrategic Business Group

Political risks are creating both challenges and opportunities for global organizations, creating an imperative to develop more strategic approaches to managing political risk. The Geostrategic Business Group helps companies to do this by translating geopolitical insights into business strategy.

Read more