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 ist ein globaler Anbieter von Kreditversicherungen, Bürgschaften,
Inkassodienstleistungen und Wirtschaftsinformationen mit einer strategischen Präsenz in mehr als 50 Ländern. Die von Atradius angebotenen Produkte schützen Unternehmen weltweit vor den Ausfallrisiken beim Verkauf von Waren und Dienstleistungen auf Kredit. Atradius ist Mitglied von GCO, einem der größten Versicherer in Spanien und einem der größten Kreditversicherer der Welt.
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 unterstützt als integraler Teil der ESG.DNA Starboard-Lösungen bei der Informationsvermittlung und -beschaffung hinsichtlich der Einhaltung relevanter Gesetze und Anforderungen, sodass der Prozess der Berichterstellung effizient und revisionssicher bearbeitet werden kann. Durch den Einsatz einer KI-basierten Graph-Struktur, die wie ein Netzwerk die Verknüpfungen zwischen den Gesetzen und Dokumenten erkennt und navigiert, lassen sich signifikante Effizienzsteigerungen und Zeitersparnisse realisieren.
finhub 360
FinHub 360 Advisors ist eine Partnerschaft von erfahrenen Beratern und Experten mit der primären Zielsetzung, Finanzdienstleistungen durch das konsequente Ausschöpfen der ESG-bezogenen Chancen bei gleichzeitiger Gewährleistung der regulatorischen Anforderungen nachhaltiger zu gestalten.
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
Die Funk Gruppe ist als der größte inhabergeführte, unabhängige Versicherungsmakler und Risk Consultant im deutschsprachigen Raum der renommierte Experte für Versicherungslösungen, Risikomanagement,
Vermögenssicherung und Vorsorgelösungen für Unternehmen, Unternehmerinnen sowie Unternehmer und deren Ziele. Mit einem datengetriebenen Beratungsansatz hilft Funk Consulting Unternehmen, die Auswirkungen des Klimawandels präzise zu erfassen und darauf basierend proaktiv
zu agieren. Der Schwerpunkt liegt auf der Identifikation und detaillierten Bewertung von Risiken, die sich sowohl direkt als auch indirekt aus klimatischen Veränderungen ergeben, einschließlich der Einflüsse auf die Lieferkette.
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 ist ein Team erfahrener Senior Advisor mit langjähriger Prüfungs- und Beratungserfahrung in global tätigen Prüfungsgesellschaften, der Industrie sowie der Forschung zu Nachhaltigkeitsthemen. Das GREEN MINE-Leistungsspektrum reicht von „Managed Financial & ESG Services“ über „Financial Reporting & Accounting Advice“ bis „Corporate Sustainability Services”
GREENZERO
GREENZERO hilft Umweltwirkungen zu analysieren, effizient und schnell zu reduzieren, in Umweltkosten umzurechnen und in Renaturierung zu investieren. Mehrdimensional, transparent und wirksam. Unser Ziel: die grüne Null – GREENZERO eben.
Unter dem Dach der GREENZERO GmbH decken die Unternehmen GREENZERO AX, Innovation City Management, GREENZERO DX und HeimatERBE verschiedene Kompetenzen innerhalb des Nachhaltigkeitssektors ab – von der Ökobilanzierung über die Reduktionsberatung und Kompensation von negativen Umweltwirkungen bis hin zur multimedialen Nachhaltigkeits- und Change-Kommunikation.
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
Die HUMAN CAPITAL GROUP versteht sich als Partner ihrer internationalen Klienten. Die Unternehmensgruppe strebt langfristige Geschäftsbeziehungen zu ihren Klienten an, die von Vertrauen, Ehrlichkeit und Qualität getragen wird. Erfolgreiche Restrukturierung, Transformation, Change Management, M&A und Executive Search basieren auf jahrzehntelanger Expertise. Begleitung von CSR- und ESG-Projekten und Entwicklung von nachhaltigen Lösungen.
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
„Die Klepper-Markenberatung zählt zu den renommiertesten Markenberatungen für mittelständische B2B Familienunternehmen in der DACH Region.
Seit über 20 Jahren transformiert sie Unternehmen zu Marken mit Strahlkraft und macht diese zum verlässlichsten Wachstumstreiber im Familienunternehmen.“
KNÖLL Finanzierungsberatung für
Familienunternehmen GmbH
Familienunternehmen GmbH
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.
Nord/LB
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 ist ein auf die Erschließung komplexer Fördermittel und die Beschaffung von Unternehmensfinanzierungen spezialisiertes Beratungs- und Umsetzungsunternehmen.
Das Leistungsspektrum erstreckt sich über die Bereiche Nachhaltigkeit und Transformation zur Klimaneutralität, Innovationen, Immobilien sowie Investitions- & Unternehmensfinanzierung
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, die dynamische Plattform, die speziell für die Nachhaltigkeitswelt konzipiert wurde. SUSTAINX ist mehr als nur eine Datenbank, es ist eine lebendige Community und der globale Knotenpunkt für bahnbrechende Nachhaltigkeits-Trends, -Lösungen und -Studien. Ihre einzigartige Stärke liegt in der Vernetzung. SUSTAINX fördert ein weltweites Netzwerk von Nachhaltigkeitsexpert:innen und ermöglicht einen offenen Dialog und gemeinschaftliche Problemlösungen. Über die Plattform vernetzen sich Fachleute aus aller Welt, teilen ihre Erfahrungen und erarbeiten gemeinsam nachhaltige Lösungen. SUSTAINX ist der zentrale Ort, um global über Nachhaltigkeit zu diskutieren, Herausforderungen gemeinsam anzugehen und um bedeutsame Partnerschaften mit anderen Expertinnen & Experten zu knüpfen, durch die gemeinsam Nachhaltigkeitslösungen entwickelt werden.
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
Weissman Consulting entwickelt seit über 30 Jahren gemeinsam mit Familienunternehmen Erfolgsstrategien, Geschäftsmodelle aber auch Nachfolgeregelungen, die der aktuellen sowie den nachfolgenden Generationen
dienen. Die Mission von Weissman Consulting ist es, Familienunternehmen
zukunftsfähig machen. Dafür werden Strategie, Organisation sowie Kultur (S-O-K) immer zusammen betrachtet und verbunden, an die Erfolgskriterien Wertsteigerung, Innovation und Nachhaltigkeit (W-I-N) gekoppelt und in einen zeitlichen Rahmen mit 7-, 3- und 1-jährigen Jahreshorizonten gesetzt. So entstehen Maßnahmen mit klaren Zielen, klarem Kontext und klarer Fälligkeit. Alles für den Erfolg. Aus Prinzip. Mit dem SOK-WIN-731-Prinzip.
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