ESG expertise from practical experience.
Cross-industry ESG experience from real-world projects
Our partners.
Together with our strong partner network, we advance and promote sustainability.
Atradius
Atradius is a global provider of credit insurance, surety bonds,
debt collection services, and business information, with a strategic presence in more than 50 countries. The products offered by Atradius protect companies worldwide against the risk of non-payment when selling goods and services on credit. Atradius is a member of GCO, one of the largest insurers in Spain and one of the largest credit insurers in the world.
Automotive Sales Solutions
BearingPoint
As an international management and technology consultancy with individual solutions by linking strategies with new technical possibilities, BearingPoint offers three interconnected strategic pillars: consulting, business services and software.
blackbird consulting
Smart. Flexible. Courageous. Like a blackbird. The blackbird stands for strength, intelligence and adaptability. It demonstrates the courage to change. For blackbird consulting, these characteristics are inspiration and driver to be a valued partner for clients' transformation projects in the area of sustainability. In ESG projects, blackbird consulting balances opportunities and risks on a company-specific basis, derives customized strategies and processes, and actively accompanies organizational changes in companies.
Callirius
Callirius develops and operates a marketplace for climate protection projects that connects project owners and investors, taking into account their individual needs and ensuring a high level of project integrity through the "Callirius Quality Engine and due diligence". At the same time, all parties involved are informed about decarbonisation strategies and compensation claims.
Ecowood Solutions
Ecowood Solutions is a pioneer in sustainable forestry and CO2 compensation. Providing alternative concepts for reforestation for the forest of the future, sustainability, ecology, environmental protection and economy are ideally combined. Ecowood Solutions establishes biodiversity as an evolutionary adaptation to climate change and is already able to produce 1 million seedlings annually for the forest.
EFFIZIENZ-AGENTUR NRW
Conserve resources. Strengthen the economy. Sustainable products and resource-efficient production processes make an important contribution to reducing resource consumption, setting the course for a circular economy and protecting the environment and climate. The Effizienz-Agentur NRW (EFA) supports industry and trade in North Rhine-Westphalia (Germany) with its expertise and advice to achieve these goals. As an independent service provider, EFA has been working on behalf of the North Rhine-Westphalian Ministry of the Environment for 25 years.
ekodev
Founded in Paris in 2009, the sustainability consultancy ekodev offers unique comprehensive solutions for greater sustainability with around 50 ESG consultants in 6 EU countries. Based in Düsseldorf, ekodev advises companies from Germany, Austria and Switzerland on the following topics: Sustainability reporting (including in accordance with ESRS, GRI), decarbonisation (carbon footprint, transition plans), sustainable procurement and LKSG, advice and support for ESG-relevant ISO certifications and ESG ratings as well as biodiversity risks (site analyses and improvement measures)."
ESG I BOT
ESGbot, as an integral part of the ESG.DNA Starboard solutions, supports the communication and retrieval of information regarding compliance with relevant laws and requirements, enabling the reporting process to be handled efficiently and in an audit proof manner. By using an AI based graph structure that functions like a network and identifies and navigates the connections between laws and documents, significant efficiency gains and time savings can be achieved.
finhub 360
FinHub 360 Advisors is a partnership of experienced consultants and experts with the primary objective of making financial services more sustainable by consistently leveraging ESG-related opportunities while ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements.
FINPAIR
finpair, one of the leading platforms for structuring and issuing debt instruments. As a workflow-based platform for Schuldschein loans and registered bonds, all relevant process steps - from the request for quotation to the repayment - are completely mapped digitally. The FinTech is characterized by a high investor universe, reliable combination of digital know-how, experienced product specialists and renowned partners. As the only platform, finpair integrates a solution from sustainable finance and maintains a cooperation under the slogan "Digital Matchtime" by connecting to a platform offer of DekaBank.
F.U.N. Das Familien-
Unternehmer-Netzwerk
Unternehmer-Netzwerk
ESG.DNA is a member of F.U.N. The Family Entrepreneur Network, which provides access to a comprehensive knowledge network specifically tailored to the needs of family and medium-sized businesses. Sustainable success is based on a strong, values-based management team that has the necessary expertise and knowledge and in which managers lead by example, not by position. In today's world, it is necessary to be able to access the necessary, up-to-date knowledge online at any time and from anywhere. ESG.DNA has made fundamental contributions to the topics of sustainability on this valuable platform.
notwendige, aktuelle Wissen jederzeit und von überall online abrufen zu können. ESG.DNA hat elementare Beiträge zu den Themen der Nachhaltigkeit auf dieser wertvollen Plattform beigesteuert.
Funk Consulting
The Funk Group, as the largest owner-managed, independent insurance broker and risk consultant in the German-speaking region, is a renowned expert in insurance solutions, risk management,
asset protection, and pension solutions for companies, entrepreneurs, and their objectives.
With a data-driven consulting approach, Funk Consulting helps companies precisely assess the impacts of climate change and act proactively
based on these insights. The focus lies on identifying and conducting a detailed assessment of risks arising both directly and indirectly from climatic changes, including their effects on the supply chain.
GRI – Global Reporting Initiative
ESG.DNA GmbH – the company behind Starboard Tools – is a member of the GRI Global Reporting Initiative (globalreporting.org), which currently includes 29 other companies in Germany. These include companies such as BASF, Bayer, Daimler, Deutsche Bank, Evonik, GLS Bank, Munich Airport and Robert Bosch. The GRI Standards represent global best practice for public reporting on various economic, environmental and social impacts. Sustainability reporting based on the standards provides information about the positive or negative contributions of an organization to sustainable development.
Google Cloud
Digital transformation is more than “lifting and shifting” old IT infrastructure to the cloud for cost saving and convenience. True transformation spans the entire business and enables every person to transform. We deeply understand today's technology requirements and the need to continuously innovate. That's why organizations build their transformation cloud and solve their biggest challenges with Google Cloud. ESG.DNA is Google Cloud Partner.
Green Mine
Green Mine is a team of experienced senior advisors with many years of auditing and consulting experience in globally active audit firms, industry, and sustainability-related research. The GREEN MINE service portfolio ranges from “Managed Financial & ESG Services” and “Financial Reporting & Accounting Advice” to “Corporate Sustainability Services.”
GREENZERO
GREENZERO helps analyze environmental impacts, reduce them efficiently and quickly, translate them into environmental costs, and invest in renaturation. Multidimensional, transparent, and effective. Our goal: the green zero – GREENZERO.
Under the umbrella of GREENZERO GmbH, the companies GREENZERO AX, Innovation City Management, GREENZERO DX, and HeimatERBE cover a range of competencies within the sustainability sector—from life cycle assessment and reduction consulting to the compensation of negative environmental impacts and multimedia sustainability and change communication.
Hansekontor
With Hanseatic roots and Hanseatic qualities - including cosmopolitanism, modesty and reliability - HANSEKONTOR specializes in securing the financial strength and thus the lasting success of companies. As an independent specialist brokerage company, HANSEKONTOR exclusively represents the interests of its clients. The company has excellent contacts to well-known global players on the one hand and attractive niche providers with often extremely specialized products on the other. These connections enable the specialist brokerage company to develop and offer highly individual solutions at any time. This has made HANSEKONTOR the leading factoring and credit insurance specialist broker in Germany, which is now also a sales partner of ESG.DNA GmbH for Starboard ESG Tools.
HUMAN CAPITAL GROUP
The HUMAN CAPITAL GROUP sees itself as a partner to its international clients. The group aims to build long-term business relationships founded on trust, integrity, and quality. Successful restructuring, transformation, change management, M&A, and executive search are based on decades of expertise. The company also supports CSR and ESG projects and develops sustainable solutions.
inside finance Capital Partners
inside finance Capital Partners AG prepares companies for capital raising and connects them with investors. The network consists of more than 130 banks in various countries as well as a variety of other financiers. Due to today's inseparability of financing and ESG transparency, the cooperation and partnership with ESG.DNA GmbH is a logical and necessary step to continue to provide state-of-the-art financing services and guidance to corporate customers to secure their financial future.
KLEPPER MARKENBERATUNG
Klepper Brand Consulting is one of the most renowned brand consultancies for mid-sized B2B family-owned businesses in the DACH region.
For over 20 years, it has been transforming companies into brands with strong appeal and turning them into the most reliable driver of growth in family-owned businesses.
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matchbird
Matchbird is the world's first business connector that identifies promising business opportunities in the spirit of serendipity and brings together the right decision-makers and experts - across all industries. From the head office in Duesseldorf, Germany and the Matchbird subsidiaries world-wide, already over 11.000 enterprises have been matched. Matchbird's claim is to open up new paths for customers and to make hidden chances usable. Since 2014, the company has achieved this with a unique combination of creative team spirit and the latest data graph technology.
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OPTENDA
OPTENDA supports companies from industry and commerce as well as public utilities and municipalities in energy and CO2 management. The software solutions for energy monitoring and CO2 balancing developed in-house by OPTENDA are essential for this. These provide transparency in energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions and thus the prerequisite for uncovering and minimizing unnecessary consumption and emissions.
REM Capital
REM Capital is a consulting and implementation firm specializing in accessing complex funding programs and securing corporate financing.
The range of services extends across sustainability and the transformation to climate neutrality, innovation, real estate, as well as investment and corporate financing.
SD-M
SD-M GmbH is a global pioneer for standardized ESG integration and has been a provider of ESG data for 12,500 companies and ESG equity and corporate bond indices with STOXX and iBoxx since 2009. Since 2010, SD-M has created global standards for key sustainability indicators, so-called "Sustainable Development Key Performance Indicators" (SD-KPIs), on behalf of the German government. The SD-KPI standards have been recommended by BaFin and the German Sustainability Code (DNK) and are an integral part of the Starboard ESG Tools.
SUSTAINX
SUSTAINX is a dynamic platform specifically designed for the sustainability world. SUSTAINX is more than just a database; it is a vibrant community and a global hub for groundbreaking sustainability trends, solutions, and studies. Its unique strength lies in connectivity. SUSTAINX fosters a worldwide network of sustainability experts and enables open dialogue and collaborative problem-solving. Through the platform, professionals from around the world connect, share their experiences, and jointly develop sustainable solutions. SUSTAINX is the central place to engage in global discussions on sustainability, tackle challenges together, and build meaningful partnerships with other experts to co-create impactful sustainability solutions.
VfU
The Verein für Umweltmanagement und Nachhaltigkeit in Finanzinstituten e.V. (VfU e.V.) is a network of sustainable finance professionals from over 60 financial institutions (banks, insurance companies, investment companies, and corresponding associations) founded in 1995. The main focus of VfU is promoting and disseminating various themes of Sustainable Finance among financial service providers in the DACH region. To this purpose, VfU offers members as well as non-members a platform on which they can acquire, exchange, generate and deepen knowledge and know-how on Sustainable Finance in various formats. In an exchange with leading academics from different disciplines, the association supports application-oriented research in the field of finance and sustainability.
VTH – Verband Technischer Handel
The VTH Verband Technischer Handel e.V. was founded in 1904 as a voluntary protective association of the former asbestos and rubber goods dealers. Over the course of time, this function was supplemented by a wide range of service offerings. Today, the VTH, based in Düsseldorf, is the only trade association for the technical trade sector and professional association for technical dealers in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The VTH's claim to be close to its 230 member companies on the ground, including on the subject of ESG reporting requirements, and to offer them unique platforms for specialist exchange on individual main product groups is reflected in the 8 VTH regions and 5 VTH specialist groups.
Weissman Consulting
For over 30 years, Weissman Consulting has been developing success strategies, business models, and succession plans together with family-owned businesses that serve both the current and future generations.
The mission of Weissman Consulting is to make family businesses fit for the future.
To achieve this, strategy, organization, and culture (S-O-K) are always considered and connected together, linked to the success factors of value creation, innovation, and sustainability (W-I-N), and placed within a time framework of 7-, 3-, and 1-year horizons. This results in measures with clear goals, clear context, and clear deadlines. All for success. As a matter of principle. With the SOK-WIN-731 principle.
Our industries.
ESG Expertise in all sectors.
Industry & Production
Companies in industrial and process manufacturing work with emission-intensive production steps, energy- hungry plants, and complex supply chains. These structures lead to high regulatory pressure and an increased need for testing, especially once thresholds are reached.
Trade
Retail companies usually have decentralised structures, numerous locations, and heterogeneous IT systems. The biggest challenge is not only to collect ESG data, but also to consolidate it from a wide variety of sources and make it comparable.
Financial Services
In the financial sector, emissions rarely arise visibly in the production process, but rather indirectly—for example, through business travel, vehicle fleets, IT infrastructure, or investments. The challenge therefore lies less in the amount of data than in identifying relevant sources of emissions.
Bioscience
Life science companies work with sensitive research and production processes that are subject to strict regulatory requirements and involve high energy and resource consumption.
Our experience in this industry shows
Every ton of material, every supplier, and every processing step can have an impact on emissions. Thanks to our many years of working with manufacturing companies, we understand the logic of industrial processes and know how challenging it is to map them accurately and in compliance with EU regulations. This is exactly where we come in: we reduce complexity, create robust structures for data collection and management, and enable reporting quality that also meets audit requirements.
Without a consistent data logic, sustainability reporting remains fragmented, inefficient, and prone to errors. We support retail organisations in precisely this area with software and consulting approaches that standardise data flows, reduce operational costs, and create a centralised view of their entire emissions and location landscape.
ESG managers must capture, harmonise and report emissions across diverse holdings in a regulatory-compliant manner. Our solutions provide clarity by delivering methodology, calculation logic, and structure— paving the way for consistent, comparable, and auditable ESG reporting.
The precise recording of emissions along complex laboratory, R&D, and cold chain structures is crucial. We have successfully mastered this complexity in previous projects by clearly structuring emission- relevant processes, standardising calculation logics, and preparing data flows in a fully regulator- compliant way.
Our SME expertise.
Resource and workforce constraints