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Where we work, who we work with, and what we help set in motion.

The senior people you meet lead the work

Reiv Team's work spans the areas below. Each engagement is led by the senior people you first meet, and each starts with a site visit before it starts with a strategy. Below you will find the situations where our expertise sits, the industries we know from the inside, and the kinds of projects we take from first idea to working reality.

Areas in which we work

Each area follows the same path: understand the terrain, plan it with your team, deliver beside you, and stay once the program is live.

Separating the few material issues from the manyMateriality
01 — Strategy and materiality

Strategy and materiality

A hundred issues compete for a sustainability team's attention. The first job is separating the few that carry financial and impact weight from the many that merely look responsible, then sequencing them into a plan the business can fund.

  • Double materiality assessment run to the CSRD and ESRS definitions, testing both financial materiality and impact materiality.
  • Sustainability strategy with targets a board will sign and finance will back.
  • Multi-year roadmaps that assign each initiative an owner, a budget, and a horizon.
  • Peer benchmarking, so a prioritization survives challenge from an investor or an activist shareholder.
  • Positioning of the strategy for the board, the auditor, and the rating agencies.
How it goes

The assessment begins with interviews across the business and a reading of where value and impact actually concentrate, tested against what peers and regulators treat as material. The double materiality exercise then has evidence behind each rating, which is what holds up when an auditor asks why an issue was scored the way it was.

The result

A ranked agenda the board can act on, with a defensible reason attached to every line, and a sequence that matches the money available to fund it.

When companies come to Reiv Team

Usually at the start, when a CSRD reporting cycle calls for a rigorous double materiality assessment, or when an existing strategy has lost focus and needs to be sharpened.

A carbon number that survives assuranceDecarbonisation
02 — Carbon and decarbonisation

Carbon and decarbonisation

Most companies can state a carbon number. Far fewer can show how it was calculated or fund the route to bringing it down. Both halves of that problem sit here.

  • Greenhouse-gas inventories across Scope 1, 2 and 3, with real supplier data replacing spend-based estimates where it matters.
  • Science-based targets developed and submitted to the SBTi.
  • Decarbonization pathways modelled against the company's actual capital cycle, never a generic curve.
  • Marginal abatement cost analysis, so the cheapest tones are cut before the expensive ones.
  • Energy sourcing and procurement decisions costed against their effect on the number.
How it goes

A credible inventory means going past spend-based averages for the categories that dominate the footprint, which usually sends us to the suppliers and the sites themselves. The pathway that follows is modelled against the company's own investment cycle, so a reduction curve lines up with when plant is actually replaced and contracts actually renew.

The result

A carbon number that survives assurance and a reduction plan finance has already agreed to fund. No target announced to the press and then quietly missed.

When companies come to Reiv Team

When a footprint needs to withstand audit for the first time, when an SBTi submission is due, or when an announced net-zero date has no funded plan behind it.

Filings that pass assurance and stay readableReporting
03 — Reporting and compliance

Reporting and compliance

Disclosure has become an audited exercise with the same weight as the financial accounts. The work here produces filings that pass assurance and stay readable for the people who have to act on them.

  • CSRD reporting mapped to the specific ESRS data points, with the gap analysis that shows what data is still missing.
  • EU Taxonomy eligibility and alignment assessment across turnover, CapEx, and OpEx.
  • CDP disclosure, including framework selection and scoring improvement.
  • Assurance-ready data trails prepared for limited assurance now and reasonable assurance later.
  • Narrative reporting that sets the numbers inside a story an investor follows to the end.
How it goes

The first move is a gap analysis against the ESRS data points that apply, because most companies discover the reporting problem is really a data problem. From there the work runs in parallel: fixing the data collection at source, and drafting a report that reads as one continuous argument, past the stage of a spreadsheet with sentences bolted on.

The result

A filing that passes assurance and a document the board is willing to put its name to, because the people who signed it understood every line.

When companies come to Reiv Team

Ahead of a CSRD report, when a taxonomy assessment has stalled, or when a previous disclosure drew hard questions from an assurer or an investor.

The hardest terrain in sustainability sits upstreamSupply chain
04 — Supply chain and nature

Supply chain and nature

For most large companies the largest impact sits with suppliers they influence but do not own. This is the hardest terrain in sustainability, and where the new regulations bite first.

  • Scope 3 mapping that finds the suppliers behind the majority of the footprint, then a program to engage them.
  • EUDR readiness for deforestation-linked commodities, down to plot geolocation and the due-diligence statement.
  • Human-rights and environmental due diligence structured to the CSDDD.
  • Nature and biodiversity work covering both the company's impact on ecosystems and its dependency on them.
  • Responsible sourcing standards written into supplier contracts, with the traceability to prove them.
How it goes

Mapping a supply chain from a desk produces a diagram, which is a long way short of a program. The work instead goes to the tiers that carry the exposure, often to the origin country itself, to understand what a supplier can realistically evidence and what will need support to reach. A standard is only worth writing if the suppliers can meet it.

The result

A supplier program that reduces real exposure and an evidence trail a customs officer or an auditor will accept, well beyond a policy that lives only on the company's own website.

When companies come to Reiv Team

As an EUDR application date or a CSDDD obligation turns an abstract duty into a working deadline, or when a Scope 3 estimate is too coarse to act on and needs replacing with something real.

On-site delivery through the hard middle stretchExecution
05 — Execution and enablement

Execution and enablement

An approved strategy that never reaches the operation has changed nothing. This is the delivery work most advisors leave before, and where our engagements spend the most time.

  • On-site delivery of the program, working alongside the teams who own each part.
  • Data and reporting capability grown inside the company, so the muscle stays after we leave.
  • Training and coaching for the program owners who inherit the work.
  • Governance designed to survive the departure of its original champion.
  • Post-launch review that catches drift while it is still a small correction.
How it goes

Delivery means our people are on site through the hard middle stretch, sitting with procurement during a supplier renegotiation or with a plant team as a target becomes a change to how they work. Alongside that, we hand the tools and the habits to the people who will own the program once we step back, because the aim is a client who needs us less each year.

The result

A program that keeps running after the launch enthusiasm fades, owned by a team that can now defend and adjust it without us in the room.

When companies come to Reiv Team

When a good strategy has stalled at implementation, when an internal team is stretched too thin to deliver, or when a program lost momentum after the person who started it moved on.

Industries we know from the inside

We work with large European companies whose sustainability questions do not fit a template. Depth in a sector is what lets us be useful there.

For a food or agricultural group, most of the impact grows in fields and moves along routes the company will never own outright. The pressure now comes from EUDR traceability and from Scope 3 emissions concentrated at the farming end, alongside water and land use. We know how a commodity travels from a smallholder to a shelf, and where the evidence has to be captured along the way.

A bank or insurer answers for what it finances and underwrites long before it answers for its own buildings. The questions that matter here are financed emissions, taxonomy-aligned lending, and climate risk sitting inside the portfolio. Our role is to help the sustainability function speak the same language as the risk and treasury teams it depends on.

A health-technology or manufacturing company has to prove a product is responsible from raw material to end of life. That means supply-chain due diligence and product carbon footprints, with circularity designed in from the first drawing. Our work happens at the level of the bill of materials, a long way below the brochure.

A retailer lives by thousands of suppliers across dozens of countries, and its footprint is overwhelmingly the footprint of what it sells. The real reductions hide in supplier engagement at scale, in private-label sourcing standards, and in packaging and food-waste programs. Our job is to turn buyer relationships into leverage for change.

Types of projects we take on

The work tends to arrive as one of the following and often turns into two or three of them once we are inside it.

Assessment and diagnosis

A materiality assessment, a carbon baseline, a supply-chain risk map, a compliance gap analysis. The starting point that tells a company where it stands.

Strategy and roadmap

A sustainability strategy with targets, a decarbonization pathway, a multi-year plan of prioritized initiatives with owners and budgets attached.

Reporting and disclosure

A first CSRD report, an EU Taxonomy assessment, a CDP submission, or the data architecture that makes next year's reporting routine.

Implementation program

Delivery: establishing a supplier program, running a decarbonization initiative, and embedding a reporting process that continues beyond its original owner.

Capability and enablement

Training a sustainability team, coaching a program owner, and setting up the governance that keeps momentum after we step back.

Not sure which of these you need?

Few real problems arrive neatly labelled. A reporting deadline turns out to be a data problem, which turns out to be a supply-chain problem. Start a conversation and we will help you see which thread to pull first.

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