Independent Advisory
Flexible, senior ESG support across strategy, reporting, compliance, and assurance readiness. Senior support, scoped to where you are.
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Orogen8 combines senior, independent ESG advisory with digital solutions that let teams do more in-house, helping companies navigate a shifting regulatory landscape and stay compliant. Built to Big-Four standard, with the rigour and traceability to make it hold up.
The landscape
ESG and sustainability regulation is moving fast and the requirements keep shifting. Few teams have the capacity to keep pace on their own. Orogen8 is the independent advisor who helps you navigate it, and increasingly, the tooling to handle more of it in-house.
What Orogen8 does
Flexible, senior ESG support across strategy, reporting, compliance, and assurance readiness. Senior support, scoped to where you are.
Book a call →Solutions and tools that hand your team the methodology, not just the output, so you can do more of the work in-house, to a standard that holds up.
Explore capabilities →Every engagement and every tool is built to Big-Four standard: independent, with limited assurance rigour and full traceability built in. So your ESG work holds up: to regulators, to assurers, and over time.
Capabilities
Orogen8 is built by former practitioners from a Big-Four climate and sustainability practice, and its capabilities mirror that service line in full. The work is delivered independently and to the same standard, with one difference: it readies the reporting for an assurance provider rather than signing the opinion itself.
CSRD and ESRS reporting from gap analysis to a disclosure an assurance provider can test, with the same rigour applied across the other frameworks.
CSRD · ESRS · IFRS S1 & S2 · AASB S2 · VSME
Greenhouse gas inventories and baselining with transparent calculations and a clear audit trail, built to stand up to limited assurance.
Scope 1–2 · Scope 3 · Baselining · Footprinting · Decarbonisation
Sustainability and reporting programmes run end to end, coordinating internal teams, advisors and assurance providers to a plan that holds.
CSRD programmes · Workstream delivery · Stakeholder coordination · Assurance liaison
Custom data systems and reporting tools, increasingly AI-enabled, built where a team already works so the capability stays in-house.
AI-enabled tools · Excel · SharePoint · Bespoke platforms · Automation
Senior ESG advice across strategy, double materiality and compliance, scoped to where a company actually is rather than a fixed package.
ESG strategy · Double materiality · Compliance · Assurance readiness
An outsourced ESG function: ongoing reporting, data and programme support for teams that need senior capacity without a senior hire.
Outsourced ESG function · Ongoing reporting · Retained support
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Technical Notes
Short, rigorous briefings on the parts of CSRD, ESRS and adjacent EU regulation that are actually moving, written for the people who have to act on them. Free to read; new notes as they’re published.
Directive (EU) 2024/825 applies from 27 September 2026, transposed in Ireland by S.I. 124 of 2026 and enforced by the CCPC. No new reporting regime: environmental claims now fall under consumer law, with some practices prohibited in all circumstances and others misleading only where they would change the average consumer's decision. What is banned outright, what is assessed case by case, and the evidence a claim has to be able to show.
Regulation (EU) 2023/1115 applies from 30 December 2026, and the trigger is the commodity, not your sector: seven commodities whose scope follows the material downstream into what you make. What is covered, what changed on 13 July 2026, how to tell if you are in scope, and why out-of-scope is now something you evidence rather than assert.
With the revised ESRS adopted, the terms for going to your value chain are settled: the cap is triggered by size and only size (1,000 employees), not by location, turnover or SME status. A five-move method for collecting under it, and a correction to the non-EU misreading now in circulation.
The European Commission's 3 July 2026 amendment lets materiality conclusions be reached top-down, at topic level, with a specific assessment only where the conclusion is not evident. What changes, and a working method for applying it to a double materiality assessment you have already completed.
Regulation (EU) 2025/40 applies from 12 August 2026: one text across the EU, with obligations that attach to roles per packaging stream, not to companies. A reframing of compliance as a sorting exercise: sort every stream once, and the obligations attach themselves.
About Orogen8
Founder & Principal, Orogen8
Timsie Ho is the founder of Orogen8. A former Big-Four climate and sustainability advisor and assurance provider, he works directly with companies on their ESG needs, from CSRD and ESRS reporting to carbon and strategy, and builds the tools and solutions that let their teams carry the work in-house. For larger or specialist engagements, he brings in a small group of independent advisors he has worked alongside for years.
Independent by design · Methodology and traceability built in · The client keeps control
Delivery partners
Orogen8 is independent by design. For larger or specialist engagements it draws on a small group of senior, independent practitioners, former colleagues from a Big-Four climate and sustainability practice, who join the team for specific projects. The calibre stays constant; the capacity flexes to the work.
Former Big-Four Senior Manager · Climate Change & Sustainability Services
Natália led a wave-one CSRD assurance engagement, among the first companies assured under the directive. With more than ten years in sustainability advisory, predominantly with large multinational and listed groups, she was most recently a Senior Manager in a Big Four climate and sustainability practice. She works across CSRD and ESRS readiness, double materiality, sustainability strategy and Scope 1–2 baselining.
CSRD & ESRS readiness · Double materiality · Sustainability strategy · GHG baselining · Listed & multinational groups
Former Big-Four · Climate Change & Sustainability Services
A carbon and assurance specialist, formerly with a Big Four climate and sustainability practice. Aleksandra focuses on GHG accounting across Scopes 1 to 3, emissions assurance and verification under ISAE 3000 (Revised) and ISAE 3410, double materiality and climate-risk disclosure.
GHG accounting (Scope 1–3) · Emissions assurance · Double materiality · Climate risk
Former Big-Four Director · Global Sustainability Reporting Leader
Grassroots Sustainability
A former Big Four Director and the firm's Global Sustainability Reporting Leader, Nicola has around fifteen years in sustainability. She founded Grassroots Sustainability to make sustainability actionable for small businesses. Her work spans CSRD and ESRS reporting and disclosure, together with sustainability training and facilitation, from live delivery to stakeholder workshops.
Sustainability reporting & disclosure · CSRD & ESRS · Facilitation & training · Stakeholder workshops · Small-business sustainability