Consulting for Good | Our ESG Approach

The urgent need to limit the scale of climate change is widely acknowledged. 

Sia has been committed to accelerating carbon reduction and the energy transition for 15 years. 12% of our revenue is generated by offerings related to climate change; we help clients in the public and private sectors navigate the ongoing global transition to a low-carbon economy. Profound mitigation and adaptation are necessary to build a sustainable, resilient world of tomorrow. 

5 Key Focus Areas

1. Addressing Climate Change: Adapting more sustainable business models by opting for circularity, life cycle assessments and GHG emissions reduction.
2. Leveraging Technology: Optimizing processes and opening new opportunities via innovative tools, like AI and quantum Computing.
3. Green Finance: Taking environmental considerations into account to inform investments in the financial sector, allocating resources via green products, assets, and investments.
4. Government Regulations: Keeping up-to-date with requirements and allocating resources accordingly for reporting, measuring, and adhering to standards
5. Biodiversity: Protecting the variety of plant and animal life on our planet by preventing the degradation of our oceans and lands.

Companies in all industries have an important social responsibility in relation to their people, communities, and other stakeholders. For sustainable growth, it is crucial that employers optimize their practices and policies to strengthen employee engagement and well-being. In our Social Responsibility Lab, we develop offerings to help our clients to do precisely this.  

Our offerings include tools and strategies for promoting diversity and inclusion, integrating best practice techniques and trends, optimizing remote working practices, and supporting work-life balance. 

Additional focus areas for this lab include training & development, burnout and brownout, relocation support, and ESG Policy. 

Ethics and Compliance are intangible assets that help all types of organizations not only preserve their reputation, but also ensure the loyalty of their clients, investors, and third parties of all kinds, as well as generate new opportunities.

Nowadays, the public is more and more concerned with companies’ practices and their abidance not only with the law but with ethical standards and best practices. Sia has designed multiple offerings to guide our clients, of all types and sectors, as they address compliance and ethical topics in a structured and innovative fashion, paying particular attention to the implication of all stakeholders and measurable effectiveness of the programs implemented. 

Our international and multicultural approach allows us to address topics such as anti-corruption, where regulation is oftentimes the result of extra-territorial laws and local customs, necessitating a simultaneous need for flexibility, adaptability, and coherence.

In our Ethics & Compliance Lab, we have clearly-defined solutions adaptable to all types of clients, each of them supplemented with cutting-edge tools to provide a comprehensive response to issues related to anti-corruption, data privacy, digital compliance, duty of care, and financial security.

Sia, along with its branches and subsidiaries, upholds an ethical and transparent tax policy, in full compliance with the regulations in each country where it operates. We strictly adhere to all our tax obligations and pay our taxes in accordance with local legislation. Our tax practices are subject to oversight by the relevant authorities and are rigorously monitored. The allocation of business activity across our entities is based solely on economic and operational criteria, such as client location and effective project management, and not on any pursuit of artificial tax optimization.

Artificial intelligence is deeply transforming our society and economies. This disruptive technology is creating both new approaches to work and new partnerships between humans and machines, providing opportunities to solve today’s most pressing challenges. While the development of AI creates new opportunities, it also raises new questions about the accountability of AI models, and the need to ensure safeguards for fairness, interpretability, privacy, and security. 

As part of our Consulting for Good approach, we aim to ensure the ethical, transparent, and accountable use of AI technologies, both in our own solutions and in the projects we conduct with our clients.