Materiality Assessment Consulting Services
Materiality Assessment Services
Identify what matters most to your stakeholders and strategy. ECG’s materiality assessments guide ESG priorities and boost reporting clarity.
Our materiality assessment consulting helps your organization identify the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) topics that are most relevant to both stakeholder expectations and long-term business success. ECG’s materiality assessment consulting process follows GRI and CSRD standards, providing a structured approach to prioritize what matters most.
Why is a Materiality Assessment Essential?
Materiality assessments form the foundation for credible ESG strategy and reporting—ensuring your focus aligns with internal risks and external impacts.
- Focus on Stakeholder Priorities: Understand what matters most to investors, employees, customers, and communities through structured engagement.
- Guide ESG Strategy: Use assessment results to inform your goals, metrics, and investment in sustainability initiatives.
- Manage Risks and Opportunities: Identify key ESG drivers that influence operational performance, brand value, and regulatory exposure.
- Support Reporting Frameworks: Align your disclosures with standards like GRI, SASB, and TCFD.
Our Materiality Assessment Consulting Process
We provide a tailored, research-driven process that incorporates peer benchmarking, stakeholder input, and global frameworks.
- Context & Stakeholder Mapping: Understand your organization’s value chain, regulatory landscape, and stakeholder dynamics.
- ESG Topic Identification: Generate a candidate list of material topics based on industry relevance and framework guidance.
- Stakeholder Engagement: Conduct interviews, surveys, or workshops to gather direct input from internal and external audiences.
- Impact & Financial Analysis: Assess how each issue affects business performance and how your business impacts the issue.
- Final Report & Grid: Deliver a double materiality matrix and supporting insights for strategy, reporting, and governance.
Why Work with ECG?
Our materiality assessments are designed to be actionable, audit-ready, and aligned with global disclosure mandates.
- GRI and CSRD Alignment: Meet the requirements of current and emerging sustainability reporting regulations.
- Internal and External Relevance: Ensure your sustainability efforts reflect business priorities and stakeholder concerns.
- Decision-Ready Output: Translate complex input into a clear set of prioritized ESG issues and next steps.
All Our Services at a Glance
Climate and Carbon Services
- Corporate Carbon Footprint Calculation
- Product Carbon Footprint Calculation
- Life Cycle Assessment
- Product Environmental Footprint
- Water Advisory Services
- Greenhouse Gas Verification
- Carbon Offset Consulting
- 45Q and 45V Tax Credits
- Clean Electricity Investment Tax Credit – Section 48E
- Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM)
- SB 253 Compliance & GHG Reporting Services
- SB 261 – Climate-Related Financial Risk Act
- California Climate Disclosure Compliance
Sustainability Reporting
- Materiality Assessment
- Double Materiality Assessments
- Materiality and SASB Reporting
- SASB Standards
- GRI Reporting
- CDP Consulting
- Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD)
- Science Based Targets Initiative
- U.N. Sustainable Development Goals
- Net Zero Training and Workshops
- Environmental Product Declaration (EPD)
- Reduced Carbon Footprint Verification
- Recycled Content Verification