Due Diligence, Climate & Nature Risk
Good due diligence answers a decision-maker’s question. Ontos assesses sustainability risks and opportunities across private equity deals, external managers and listed portfolios, and sets out what they mean for the investment.
The challenge
Findings that never reach the decision.
ESG due diligence often produces long questionnaires and short conclusions. Investment committees receive a score, not a view on what could affect value, what needs to change and who will follow it up.
Climate and nature risks add a further layer. Exposure sits in dependencies and supply chains that standard data does not show, and the methods are still developing.
How Ontos helps
Where Ontos comes in.
01
Private equity ESG due diligence
Assess funds and deals before commitment: material issues, management quality, red flags and the measures to agree with the manager or company.
PE ESG due diligence
02
External manager assessment
Evaluate how managers apply sustainability in practice — process, governance, data and reporting — then agree improvement measures and track them to closure.
Manager assessment · Corrective action plans
03
Climate and nature risk
Map portfolio exposure to climate and nature-related risks, including dependencies on ecosystem services, using established methods such as ENCORE.
Climate risk · ENCORE-based analysis
04
Portfolio analysis
Quantitative and qualitative analysis across holdings to identify concentrations, trends and exposures worth acting on.
Portfolio sustainability analysis · Biodiversity and nature risk
How it works
How the engagement works.
Step 1
Frame
Agree the decision the work supports and the questions that matter most for it.
Step 2
Assess
Review documents and data, and hold structured interviews with the manager or company.
Step 3
Report
Set out findings, a clear view and the measures to agree, written for the committee that has to decide.
Who it is for
Most relevant for.
Talk through your situation.
Tell Ontos what you are working on in due diligence, climate & nature risk, and what a good outcome would look like.