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ESG finance disclosure reviews for Hong Kong issuers
We examine sustainability statements, climate metrics, and finance footnotes before they reach the Exchange, lenders, or the board.
What we review
Independent scrutiny of ESG finance disclosures — not software, not a dashboard, a working paper you can defend.
ESG Finance Disclosure Review
Independent review of ESG statements that connect to financial figures, covenants, and listing-rule footnotes before public release.
Engagement details
Climate Metric Consistency Check
Targeted testing of emissions, energy, and intensity figures against source workbooks and finance captions.
Engagement details
Board Pack Readiness Review
Compressed reading of ESG finance slides and appendix extracts prepared for audit committee or board circulation.
Engagement detailsHow an engagement runs
From document intake to board-ready findings
Every review follows a fixed sequence: intake of draft disclosures, materiality mapping against HKEX and ISSB expectations, sample testing of finance links, and a written findings memo with severity rankings.
Open the methodologyFrom recent clients
Comments from finance and sustainability leads who commissioned disclosure reviews.
“They caught a Scope 3 boundary mismatch that would have contradicted our loan covenant schedule. The memo was dense, but the board paper version was clear.”
“Turnaround was tight ahead of the annual report print date. We wished the kickoff had started a week earlier, yet the findings still landed in time for the audit committee.”
Field notes
Practical notes on ESG finance wording, assurance readiness, and Hong Kong listing expectations.
Preparing dual-language ESG packs without doubling the errors
Dual-language packs fail when each language is “finished” by a different team on a different night. Figures …
Organisational boundaries and why intensity ratios break
Intensity ratios look simple until the denominator and numerator stop sharing a boundary. A common break: …
Building an issues log the audit committee will actually read
Long review memos lose committees. We keep the full working paper for management, then compress the board note …
Need a second pair of eyes on this year’s ESG finance pack?
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