PAIA CONSULTING IS SINGAPORE’S LEADING SUSTAINABILITY CONSULTANCY.
Understand your exposure to sustainable development risks and opportunities, from leadership and engagement, reputation and supply chain resilience, to social licence to operate and human rights management. Embed sustainability practices in your business to create and protect corporate value.
We have been helping Singaporean companies create strategic value out of their sustainability reporting since 2002. To date, Paia Consulting has been involved with more than 150 reporting projects, including 116 for SGX listed corporations. Many of our clients have won global recognition for their sustainability and are leaders locally and regionally.
Devise a Report on how you understand and manage the relevant sustainable development risks in your business. Prepare and produce high quality communications aligned with stakeholder expectations and international reporting frameworks.
From general advisory and the development of responsible investment policies to the verification of green bond frameworks and providing second opinions – Paia is your trusted partner for the integration of Sustainability into your investment strategy or the financial products and services offered to your clients.
We help companies better understand, manage and report their climate risks and carbon emissions.
Climate change represents a significant, long-term business risk (and opportunity) for many companies. These risks include more stringent regulatory requirements (e.g. Singapore carbon tax), increasing costs for high carbon fuels, along with impact / disruption from more extreme weather events (especially to global supply chains).
Join our public courses or book a bespoke in-house training session. Learn business sustainability principles, how to use the Global Reporting Initiative Guidelines, and how to do materiality assessment or stakeholder engagement. Paia Consulting has been involved with more than 150 reporting projects, including 116 for SGX listed corporations, so we have both the width and the depth of practical experience and our training shares this expertise with you.
Our pedigree and international experience help institutional programmes such as Singapore Sustainability Label, Global Compact Network Singapore with training, or Singapore Environment Council with auditing.
We help you get ready for sustainability report assurance. We provide assurance services, to AA1000 and ISAE3000. We can assess the integrity and accuracy of Green Bond information and data used by investors.
Climate Change Risk - Thursday, November 8, 2018
Paia’s Knowledge Building Series are capacity building courses that focus on some of the high-risk topics identified by the World Economic Forum Global Risks Report 2018. The WEF Report identifies a cluster of interconnected environment-related risks – including extreme weather events, climate change and water crises, which have consistently featured among the top-ranked global risks for the past seven editions of The Global Risks Report. This course focuses on how climate change and the risk is poses to your organisations continued business model. [Read More]
Sustainability Reporting Course - Wednesday, November 21, 2018
Paia’s Sustainability Reporting Course is run by practitioners with over 20 years experience in sustainability reporting. This is a practical course, detailing what sustainability reporting is, explaining what the frameworks are (GRI, Integrated Reporting & SASB), what is required by SGX and will work through the key steps to producing a sustainability report. Over 1,200 participants have attended Paia’s training, many sending colleagues for future runs.
During the course we work through case study examples, and draw from our expertise from successfully working on 116 SGX listed Sustainability Reports to provide practical guidance on how to efficiently produce a robust report inline with SGX and international guidelines.
What previous participants said:
“Course content is concise and packed with real life case studies. Most importantly the course instructor no doubt is a subject matter expert in the field.”
“A very good course not only for people interested in sustainability reporting but also sustainability itself.”
“The course was digestible, covering the fundamentals in a systematic fashion.”
“One of the best things is classes with real content and good trainers!”
“Knowledgeable instructors, interesting case studies of different reports.”
“Gives a clear foundation and understanding on sustainability with actual examples.”
Liked best: “the competency and quality of the trainers and their ability to share real-life examples from extensive experience.”
“The course was practical. Not only does it explain the theory of GRI but it also empowers students to practice what is learnt.”
Supply Chain & Sustainable Procurement | Tuesday, November 27, 2018
Learn how to manage your supply chain more responsibly whilst fulfilling the reporting requirements. You will learn about business drivers, stakeholder expectations, tools and approaches in a hands-on way, how to integrate sustainable purchasing policies into your business strategy combined with sharing of best practice in effective supply chain sustainability. [Read More]
Sustainability Reporting Toolkit Training - Thursday, December 6, 2018
Write your Sustainability Report in-house with our specially designed Toolkit, compliant with SGX Sustainability Reporting guidelines. Our Toolkit includes a 32 page Handbook written by Paia, Reporting Tools & Templates to get you started and a 1 day training to help you through it all. [Read More]
3 common hurdles of writing a Sustainability Report and ways to overcome them.
/in News /by Paia ConsultingComplexity can be stressful for anyone so we completely understand what you’re facing when asked to put together a Sustainability Report for your organisation when you simply don’t know how and frankly don’t have the time. The hurdles you face are shared by many and we want to help by addressing these issues and suggest real […]
2018 – Year of Climate Action and the Carbon Tax: What companies in Singapore should know
/in News /by Paia ConsultingThe 2017 hurricane season was one of the most intense in recent history [1] and left extensive damage in Texas, Florida, and the Caribbean while Typhoon Hato wreaked havoc in Hong Kong [2]. Financial losses related to these natural desasters were significant. Several large reinsurers, including Munich Re, have reported big losses resulting from the […]
Science Based Targets and the Sectoral Decarbonization Approach:
/in Research /by Paia ConsultingWhat is a science based target? The idea behind science based targets is to use climate science to set greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction targets. The assumption behind the science based target is that climate change, if not restrained to below 2oC as described by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), will cause irreparable […]