Sustainability and Reporting

First&42nd is Edelman's consulting business specialising in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). We provide strategic advice and practical support to help clients navigate the dynamic demands of stakeholders and manage CSR challenges.

Our aim is to help you enhance your CSR performance and reputation, take advantage of opportunities with confidence and distinguish your organisation from competitors. Our approach is to understand and prioritise stakeholder demands and emerging trends, evaluate strengths and weaknesses in your approach and work with you to improve and implement your strategy and communications. 

From Strategy to Implementation to Communications

Many organisations have an approach to CSR in place, such as managing their direct environmental and social impacts.  However the awareness and demands of stakeholders and their inter-relationships are changing faster than ever.   We believe that current approaches to CSR are often not set up to continually adapt to these changes.  We also believe many organisations are not realising the full value and benefits of their CSR programmes:

An Experienced and Global Team

Our team has extensive experience responding to complex social and environmental challenges, from community programmes to corporate responses to climate change. Recent clients include Deutsche Post World Net, France Telecom, Unilever, Nokia and Orange UK. Edelman has CSR consulting teams in London, Paris and New York.

Sustainability Thinking

• The Road from Bali: Business Opportunities and Obstacles surrounding Climate Change
• Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability Communications
• It's Not Just the Label, but what's Behind it that Counts
• CSR and the Blogosphere
• Socially Responsible Investment

Strategy: Defining an effective vision, strategy and framework - underpinned by benchmarking, risk assessment, stakeholder analysis and engagement, and policy development.

Implementation: Putting your strategy and framework into action - with processes, performance measures, and training and employee engagement.

Communications and Reporting: Improving recognition and reputation through innovative corporate reports and audience specific communications.