The problem
You can’t manage a hundred ESG issues, and pretending to is why so much sustainability work changes nothing. Which eight actually matter to your business — financially, not reputationally?
ESG collapses into decoration when metrics connect to nothing, when a net-zero pledge has no science-based target behind it, when 90% of your emissions sit in a supply chain you’ve never counted. Meanwhile that carbon number is quietly arriving in your customers’ contracts, whether you’ve measured it or not.
Done seriously, sustainability is a set of hard trade-offs and real numbers — not a colour scheme for the annual report. The frameworks make it manageable.
What this book gives you
How to Master ESG & Sustainability Models gives you the 17 frameworks that turn ESG from decoration into decisions — each a full chapter with the model or matrix behind it.
- The ESG Materiality Matrix
- Double Materiality
- Carbon Accounting
- Scope 3 Emissions
- Climate Scenario Analysis
- Transition Risk
- TCFD Disclosure
- Science-Based Targets
… 17 in all, from materiality to natural-capital accounting.
See it move
Plot your issues on the double-materiality matrix — what affects your business against what your business affects — and watch a hundred worthy concerns resolve into the handful that are genuinely material. Run the carbon account and see how much of your footprint is Scope 3, sitting in suppliers you’ll now have to engage. The matrix tells you where to spend the effort, and where not to.
Buying more than one category? All 25 books and every one of the 467 models are £29.99 in the Business Framework Omnibus — less than the price of a third book. Prefer to try first? The free Framework Starter Pack gives you five complete chapters and their live Excel models.
17 frameworks. One category. The complete learning path. Every model in ESG and Sustainability Models — explained, applied, and ready to use.
How to Master ESG and Sustainability Models walks you through the complete arc: 17 models, in the order you'd actually learn them, each with a full practitioner chapter and a live Excel companion.
- 17 models across ESG and Sustainability Models, the complete learning path
- Full practitioner chapters plus a live Excel companion for every model
- Written from 30+ years in investment banking, M&A and private equity
ESG and Sustainability Models at a Glance
