Read the Air Coalition
Sustainable Business Transformation
From comprehensive change to targeted actions, we enable your company to create corporate value with Sustainable Business Strategies, for purpose and profit. Manage social and environmental risks and capitalize on the opportunities offered by the SDGs and broader sustainability actions.
Our Mission is to move businesses from sustainability ambitions to meaningful action
We accelerate your sustainability transition by aligning your strategy with the best sustainability practices and making sustainability operational in your business
Read the Air's
INTEGRATED SERVICES
Delivered in English and Japanese
ESG Assessment and Reporting
Read the Air supports listed Japanese companies to report in compliance with new Japan Financial Service Agency disclosure regulations.
Read the Air can help your organization:
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Analyze and collect required ESG data points to be FSA-compliant
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Determine the greatest Materiality issues in your industry and outline your responses
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Assess your sustainability initiatives, including Human Capital, Diversity, Governance, and Risk Management, and provide suitable responses
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Prepare the final report for your review and submission
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Learn more about ESG A&R and the frameworks and conventions with which we can align your reporting​
Outsourced Sustainability Office
The Outsourced Sustainability Office (OSO) is a package of services for Japanese and Southeast Asian companies that may currently lack the full resources they need to respond to new ESG-driven and sustainability-focused requirements.
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Read the Air can provide a full range of OSO services:
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Coordinating sustainability assessments with external partners (supply chain, distribution, etc.)
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Designing potential changes to operations to improve sustainability
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Executing sustainability practices
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Reporting on sustainability activities to various company stakeholders
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Learn more about OSO services that will allow you to start advancing your sustainability efforts today​
Read the Air's Five Areas of Expertise
Read the Air focus on five interconnected priority areas to accelerate your sustainability transition
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Intelligence
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Planning
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People
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Communication
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Tools
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Read below to learn about the transformational services that
we offer your organization in each of these Areas of Expertise.
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Intelligence
Acquire competitive analysis and topical strategy assessments to establish how your Sustainability Strategy compares with your peers’
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SERVICE OFFERINGS
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Sustainability Gap Analysis (SGA)
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Sustainability actions and stakeholder engagement
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Public communications
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Application of Sustainability KPIs
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Industry Best Practice Benchmarking
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Company-to-Peer
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Company-to-Industry
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Strategic Business Intelligence
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Policy Monitoring and Analysis
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Market Surveys
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Sustainability Technology Reviews (see Tools)
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Planning
Enable concrete and detailed planning to achieve your sustainability ambitions such as Net Zero emissions
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Collaborative Roadmap Design
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Sustainability Strategy Alignment, Initiative Assessment and Milestone/Tracking Design
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Sustainability “Strategy House” Development, Validation and Integration
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Sustainability KPI Development
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Materiality Analysis with Matrix and Stakeholder Surveys
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Decarbonization Strategy Development
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Carbon Profiling
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Science-Based Target Setting
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Decarbonization Action Planning
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People
Engage in Learning and development (L&D) programs that build sustainability capabilities
within your teams
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Leadership and Development Program Design
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Training Ideation
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Program Design and Development
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Delivery and Train-the-Trainer Methodologies
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Board and Executive Sustainability Briefings
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ESG Business Case; Carbon Pricing Impact; Diversity, Equity and Inclusion; Human Rights; Sustainability Leadership
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The ‘Are You 2030 Ready?’ Program
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Creating Awareness, Desire, and Sustainability Knowledge to take role- and department-level action
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Introduction to Decarbonization Strategies
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Strategies for decarbonization at the lowest possible cost
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An understanding of abatements and carbon markets
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How to meet compliance obligations under a carbon pricing scheme
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Communication
Adopt end-to-end Sustainability communications strategies that resonate with your internal and external stakeholders
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Authentic Asset Identification
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Communication Transformation and Alignment with Strategic Roadmaps
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Tools
ESG and Decarbonization technology advisory and sourcing to facilitate tracking of your key targets and actions with leading sustainability data management platforms
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ESG and Decarbonization Technology Advisory
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Market analysis of sustainability data management platforms and solution benchmarking
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Solution sourcing and assessment (i.e. functionality and gap analysis)
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Platform partnership and engagement strategy
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Our Process for Making Sustainability Operational
The five steps for achieving
a sustainable business model
Read the Air recognizes five steps in the process of a company making Sustainability operational in its business model. We provide services to advance through each step, individually or as a package of phases based on your business' current situation and ambitions. The full process can broken into:
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Establishing a base-level understanding
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C-level engagement & initial choices
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Actions & first wins
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Cross-organization priority setting & buy-in
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Alignment & process integration
We can tailor fit an engagement to suit whatever point you are at in the journey to becoming a sustainable business.
Read more about the Five Steps here
CUSTOMIZE OUR SERVICE PACKAGE OFFERINGS
Where is your business today? We can customize our services to your organization's level of progress, your industry and requirements, from introductory briefings and targeted team workshops to full advisory engagements and topical, commissioned reports
Long-range Tailor-made Engagements
We apply a Sustainability Operationalization Process with your key stakeholders to accelerate progress in your journey to a more sustainable business model
Customized Industry Studies
Commission a comprehensive report from Read the Air addressing your specific concerns in the journey to becoming a Sustainable Business