Sustainable Business Solutions and Risk Management
@jessica_gehl
Jessica is a Manager in PwC’s Sustainability Services practice. She manages various major clients’ engagements for pre-assurance and assurances for corporate sustainability reporting. Jessica has provided leadership to a variety of global client’s projects related to greenhouse gas emissions, energy, water, waste, health & safety, beneficiation, healthy living, and responsible sourcing (specifically related to the Kimberley Process and Conflict Minerals legislation). Sustainability engagements have included short and long term strategy development encompassing greenhouse gas emissions reduction target setting, materiality assessments and sustainability strategy workshops. In previous PwC roles, Jessica was part of PwC USA conflict minerals practice team and the PwC global scorer team for the Carbon Disclosure Process.
In 2017, Jessica was the PwC global team’s only USA representative in a groundbreaking initiative around corporate reporting on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) . The team provided support to the UN Global Compact, the world’s largest corporate sustainability initiative, and to GRI, the world’s leading organization for sustainability reporting, which were chartered to create a mechanism to help businesses prioritize and report on the SDGs. Together they issued Business Reporting on the SDGs: An Analysis of the Goals and Targets which provides a list of disclosures and suggested actions for business to take. It also explores the potential gaps and is a first major step towards helping business globally to report on the SDGs in a comparable and effective way.
Jessica Gehl