CUSP for Positive Impact
Expert consulting services in sustainability to help business reach new heights and achieve social collective goals.
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About us
CUSP is a Stockholm-based consulting firm that provides expert advice to business across various industries in their sustainability efforts. Our service focuses on SMEs, micro startups and projects in beginning phase, as we believe that laying a good foundation is way better than paying for transition.
We are committed to more positive impact than profit. We are willing to shoulder risks alongside you, standing together to make a difference.
Service Scope
Business advice
Sustainability modular education on environmental, social and governance material topics to founders, along with assistance in developing pitch decks and business plans.
Work Example: educational course
Grant support
A full suite of services for grant funding applications, including grant call research, partnership matchmaking, project planning, application assistance, and proposal writing for innovative and initiative projects.
Work Example: innovation grant for water technology
Project management
Professional Project Management service for the high-quality delivery of your initiatives, encompassing both the technical aspects and the strategic integration of sustainability and innovation principles.
Work Example: Climathon Stockholm 2023; Product Impact Management
Sustainability reporting
Dedicated to Small, Medium, Enterprises (SMEs), reporting with best-in-class frameworks and standards (below).
Work Example: coming soon using GRI standards and VSME standards under CSRD.
Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Standards
Impact-reporting for a muti-stakeholder audience; applicable for all businesses; reporting in accordance with or with reference to the standards. For the specific needs of your target audience group, the combination of GRI with other frameworks such as SASB, TCFD, UN SDGs is beneficial (contact us to learn more).
We are GRI Certified Sustainability Professionals. Currently, 2 offers available in 2024 (max. 3 offers per year within our capacity).
European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS) standards
Reporting is based on double materiality for a multi-stakeholder audience, including investors. (This is more akin to regulatory filing via the European Single Electronic Format (ESEF) using iXBRL, with a potential future requirement for licensing.)
ESRS is set to become mandatory with the enforcement starting from large undertakings on 1st January 2024. To address the resource constraints of SMEs, the directive introduces a simplified version of ESRS for listed SMEs (ESRS LSME) and voluntary reporting standard for non-listed SMEs (VSME). The exposure drafts of ESRS LSME and VSME were approved to launch in January 2024 for public consultation.
Our reporting service covers the disclosure requirements of the ESRS and the EU taxonomy, facilitated through our partnerships with digital solution providers.
IFRS Sustainability Disclosure Standards or ISSB standards
Reporting based on financial materiality for investor audience. Currently, two standards are published - General requirements (IFRS S1) and Climate (IFRS S2). They are effective for annual reporting periods beginning on or after 1 January 2024.
IFRS S1 integrates and builds on the recommendations of the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD), therefore TCFD was taken over by IFRS foundation.
The industry-specific Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) standards is still applicable in the absence of the specific disclosures from IFRS foundation.
Let's stay tuned to the latest progress!
"To be effective, the standards will need to be brought into regulation around the world, together with associated enforcement, monitoring, governance and controls, assurance, and training."
- Veronica Poole, global corporate reporting leader at Deloitte.
Cusp Consulting - 2024.pdfOur climate action
We were honoured to host the first Climathon event in Stockholm. Climathon is a global movement promoted by EIT Climate-KIC, European Center for Climate Innovation to empower citizens to take action against climate change through worldwide Climathon events.
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