Sustainability management: structured and strategic  

Make your company a sustainability champion

An investment in the future

Structure and strategy instead of unorganized processes: Sustainability management should be structurally anchored in companies. Whether it's sustainability reporting, transparent supply chains or the implementation of a CSR strategy:

We help with our know-how so that data, processes and digital tools mesh. We want CSR managers to improve the climate - and not fight with spreadsheets.

Consulting Meets Reality – For Every Stage of Maturity

Whether you’re just getting started and need to lay the groundwork for robust sustainability management, want to put your existing strategy to the test, or are looking for support with complex Scope 3 accounting in your supply chain, we’re here to help. Our experts provide phase-based support through workshops, coaching, or direct guidance.

In addition, our reporting software, ID-Report, provides the digital backbone for your sustainability efforts—a solution that has been successfully implemented by clients such as Bitzer SE and Westfalen AG. ID-Report automates the tasks that would otherwise take up your time: from corporate and product carbon footprints to the identification of CO₂ hotspots and regulatory-compliant analysis. Because our principle remains the same: first create transparency, then make data-driven decisions.

Our consulting focuses

Emissions accounting

Quantifying your climate impact, including corporate and product carbon footprints, CDP, and SBTi.

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Risk analysis

Identifying sustainability and supply chain risks before they become a problem.

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Due diligence

Ensuring responsibility and compliance along the value chain (LkSG, CSDDD).

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Resilience & Transformation

Developing strategies that make your company crisis-proof and future-proof.

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Integrated sustainability management is no longer just a “nice-to-have” but a corporate obligation—both economically and regulatory. Anyone who still relies solely on compliance management today fails to recognize the dynamics of the markets.
Global guidelines that no company can ignore:
 

  • EU CSRD & ESRS: The era of voluntary sustainability reporting is over. With the CSRD and the binding ESRS, transparency has become the standard; reporting requirements no longer apply only to large corporations.
  • EU Taxonomy & Sustainable Finance: Capital flows to where ESG data is reliable. The taxonomy serves as the operational filter for investments and financing terms.
  • Paris Climate Goals (1.5 °C): The goal has been set. Regulatory pressure to decarbonize across the entire value chain (Scope 1, 2, and especially 3) is the benchmark for any serious company.
  • UN SDGs: They remain the global compass for strategically embedding environmental and social impact goals.

The case for change: Those who continue to view sustainability merely as a response to external pressure are squandering enormous potential. True transformation builds resilience: it reduces dependencies in volatile supply chains, serves as a key lever in the “war for talent,” and drives the innovations that will define tomorrow’s market. Sustainability is the operating system for a future-proof business model—those who don’t use it will fall behind.

Our Success Stories

LR Health & Beauty

Not just reporting on sustainability, but systematically advancing it
Although sustainability had long been part of LR’s culture, increasing requirements of the CSRD made it time to take the next step. Together with abat, LR analyzed data structures, established transparency regarding key performance indicators, and developed a robust emissions balance. Existing informations were transformed into…

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Westfalen Group

Optimized energy and climate data management with ID-Report
How can a growing volume of energy and climate data be collected, evaluated, and documented in an audit-proof manner? The Westfalen Group faced this exact challenge. Manual processes and Excel spreadsheets were no longer sufficient, especially with regard to CSRD requirements and emissions accounting according to scopes. With ID-Report,…

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PETROFER

PETROFER integrates sustainability aspects into its integrated management system
Thanks to abat's CSRD-Ready consulting solution, PETROFER has embedded sustainability in its integrated management system in just 9 months. Read about the strategic steps for implementation and the impressive results - including proactive adaptation to future legal requirements - and find out how sustainable growth…

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TAKKT AG

Save time and improve data quality with ID-Report
TAKKT AG reorganizes data collection process

Improving the quality and completeness of data is essential for sustainable performance improvement and goal attainment. External product and supplier information as well as internal company data are crucial for assessing sustainability performance. To minimize the complexity of the data collection…

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Fenix Outdoor International AG

CSR reporting in corporate structures
Fenix Outdoor is a signatory of the ten principles of the UN Global Compact on behalf of its brands and retailers, and is committed to making a positive contribution to the UN goals for sustainable development. As an accredited member of the Fair Labour Association, the company places great emphasis on ensuring health and safety in the supply chain and further…

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bremenports

Holistic sustainability solution: From creating indicators to publishing the sustainability report
bremenports has been operating the infrastructure of Bremen's ports on behalf of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen since January 2002. With 390 employees, bremenports is represented in Bremen and Bremerhaven. In this success story you can read how ID-Report can be used in medium-sized companies and…

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Our customers in the area of sustain

Our product: ID-Report

For efficient sustainability reporting

With ID-Report, we enable our customers to achieve comprehensive, efficient and consistent reporting.
ID-Report is not just a sustainability reporting solution. Whether energy management or project reporting - the potential for supporting manual and decentralized reporting processes is possible.

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Nils

Senior Consultant
Bremen

The agility of a start-up with the possibilities of a corporation - in and with abat you can take responsibility and create sustainability

Here we are committed to more sustainability

If you would like to learn more about our own efforts to become a more sustainable company, you can find our understanding of corporate responsibility and our respective Communication on Progress for the United Nations Global Compact here. You can also find more measures and opportunities with which we support the transformation to sustainability here:

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Contact our abat sustain expert

This information only covers some of the challenges companies face on their path to greater sustainability. If you have any questions that aren't answered on our website, please contact us via email at sustain@abat.de. We will work with you to find solutions.