Our Better Business team work with businesses of all sizes to help them understand, craft and implement pragmatic and purposeful ESG strategies, disclosure and all things in-between.
Better Business
Across Australia, businesses are navigating complex sustainability challenges by crafting bespoke responses to climate change, environmental preservation and human rights. Each organisation’s approach must reflect its distinct market realities and operational landscape to achieve practical results and positive impact.
HIP V. HYPE has sustainability embedded in the way we do business. Our deep strategic and technical knowledge combined with direct experience delivering exceptional sustainability outcomes across our own projects and operations gives us a unique perspective and understanding of what it takes to run a Better Business.
Our team’s breadth and depth of experience enables us to develop effective processes to address existing and emerging ESG challenges in a way that delivers maximum value for our customers and society.
We work with all types of businesses. Whether you’re trying to understand where ESG can become a value driver, or you’re looking to amplify existing leadership and ambition.
We’ll support you to embrace your leadership aspirations with pragmatism, and a clear path to implementation.
Whether you’re seeking to upskill your Board and Leadership team on emerging ESG issues critical to your sector, adopt, or enhance your competitive edge in the market through evidence-based decision-making, we can help.
We seek to deeply understand where your business is on the ESG maturity curve, understand your key drivers and opportunities and deliver approaches that are set up for success.
Our approach ensures your leadership group and broader team have ownership of your ESG journey, and everyone deepens their knowledge along the way.
- Leadership Engagement
- Board & Executive Master Classes
- Strategy & Target Setting
- Mandatory Disclosures including Climate, Nature & Human Rights
- International Benchmarks & Frameworks
- Acquisition ESG Due Diligence
- Cost-Benefit Assessment
- Sustainability & ESG Communications
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We support all kinds of businesses to co-create organisation wide ESG strategies and roadmaps that respond to their unique operating situations and sector.
Whether your ambition is an industry leading Net Zero & Nature Positive roadmap or a balanced ESG Strategy, we can help you understand what’s material, benchmark your competitors, and create a pragmatic path to delivery.
We specialise in helping you create an innovative, purposeful and science-based solution that delivers value to your people, operations and stakeholders.
By working with you to co-create a strategy you become the expert in the material matters relevant to your organisation. Your Executive and Board will understand why targets have been set, and how they will be monitored and reported.
We’ll empower you to drive ESG action into the future.
- Industry Benchmarking & Gap Analysis
- Materiality Assessments
- ESG Goals & Target Setting
- Policy Development
- Roadmap & Action Planning
- Monitoring & Reporting
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Wesley College Melbourne Sustainability Framework & Action Plan
Sustainability reporting is evolving fast. From climate risks as fiduciary duties to global disclosure standards on climate, nature, and human rights—if you’re not reporting yet, you soon might be.
Done well, reporting tracks performance, builds credibility, and gains industry recognition. But disclosures must be robust—claims and data must be defensible to avoid greenwash risks.
Our team has first-hand experience writing reports, publishing disclosures and participating in benchmarks. We’ll help you navigate reporting standards and publish meaningful, credible disclosures in accordance with recognised standards that add value to your business and customers.
- Sustainability Reporting
- International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS)
- Australian Sustainability Reporting Standards (ASRS)
- Industry Benchmarks e.g. GRESB
- Human Rights & Modern Slavery Statements
- Greenwash Training & Master Classes
- Disclosure Guidance & Preparation
Climate-related fiduciary duties and nature impacts are exposing individuals and businesses to new risks across operations and supply chains. If you don’t understand your risks, you can’t manage them—undermining resilience and market credibility.
Every business faces two major climate risks: physical and transition risks. We work with leadership teams to identify vulnerabilities unique to the organisation and build adaptive strategies.
Almost every business globally has an interface with nature but financial implications can be complex. Informed by recommendations from the Taskforce on Nature Related Financial Disclosures, we help pinpoint exposure and mitigation strategies.
These risks are increasingly tied to fiduciary duties. We equip boards and executives with the knowledge to lead through expert presentations, masterclasses and tailored engagement.
- Board & Executive Engagement
- Science Based Climate Scenario Analysis
- Transition Risk Analysis
- Nature Supply Chain & Operations Exposure
- Risk Management Advisory
- Asset Climate Vulnerability
Not every business is big enough to bring a sustainability or an ESG expert in house, and often, a single staff member cannot provide the diverse range of expertise required.
We work with businesses to support implementation of strategies and plans, providing access to a team of experts who can provide a wide range of tailored support for your business to ensure efforts stay on track.
We support established businesses in identifying value uplift and resilience opportunities aligned to ESG expectations, whilst reducing operating costs.
- Leadership Coaching & Mentoring
- Capacity Building & Training
- Specific Project Guidance
- Product Review
- Certifications & Submissions
- Benchmarks & Implementation
- Pitch us your need and we’ll try to help!
Completed Projects
Suburban Land Agency 10-Year Sustainability Strategy & Review
Economic Development Queensland Early Project Lifecycle ESG Capacity Building
Renewable Energy Program Impact Evaluation
Landcom Net Zero Transition Plan Advisory Services
Lifestyle Communities Emissions Assessments & Reporting Roadmap
UDL Group Gaps and Opportunities Assessment
Tait Outdoor Furniture ESG Framework
Wesley College Melbourne Sustainability Framework & Action Plan
Climate Active Carbon Neutral Pathway
cohealth Climate Change Action
Hacer Group Sustainability Action Plan