PwC Showcases Contributions at Sustainable Finance Awards Across Four Categories

About us

Our purpose is to build trust in society and solve important problems.

The continued success of our business in the Channel Islands is intrinsically connected to the continued sustainability of the islands and competitiveness of our financial services industry. We strive to be bold, collaborative and optimistic in how we play our part in strengthening the islands to harness opportunities for growth and address societal challenges.

As the pre-eminent professional services firm, we take our own commitment to sustainability, and to supporting the mobilisation of capital for sustainable development, seriously.

What we do

Our award-winning, multi-disciplinary PwC Channel Islands Sustainability practice is led from Jersey and provides strategy, business integration, reporting and assurance services for both local and international clients. We offer support on a stand-alone basis and as part of broader transformation programmes.

Our focus is on priority sustainability value drivers for financial services; protecting value at risk and future-proofing portfolios, financing the energy transition, building resilient supply chains, unlocking value throughout the investment cycle, and navigating regulatory and data complexity.

Our approach is tech-powered and results-driven, achieving real outcomes: cost savings, new revenue streams and risk mitigation. With deep sector knowledge, cross-functional expertise, and AI-enhanced insight, we can support you wherever you are on your journey.

How we supported mobilisation of capital for the SDGs in 2025

As the largest auditor of Jersey funds in 2025, we systematically integrated climate risk management into financial audits, challenged sustainability-related claims, and improved the reliability of disclosures underpinning capital allocation. We also provided assurance over sustainability-linked debt KPIs, strengthening investor confidence in whether capital is genuinely linked to sustainability outcomes.

In private markets, our local experts led portfolio monitoring programmes for large private equity houses with AuM exceeding £2bn, integrating sustainability KPIs into financial dashboards. Our clients moved from static disclosures to dynamic tracking, making sustainability data more useful for capital allocation and full-lifecycle value creation.

We also targeted underfunded SDG areas, particularly adaptation and resilience technology. PwC research showed that adaptation and resilience represented only 12% of climate tech deal value in 2024. In 2025, our Jersey team worked to build a taxonomy of adaptation and resilience tech businesses and identify investable companies, accelerating deal origination.

In 2025, our local team worked with multinational financial institutions on alignment with Global, EU and UK sustainability regulations, enabling them to structure and report sustainable products credibly and support taxonomy-aligned financing at scale. In FinTech, our KYC and due diligence technology transformation work removed operational barriers for financial institutions dedicated to mobilising capital for the global energy transition.

We continued to expand our local impact assessment and valuation services and also provided independent evaluations for a Jersey-focused technology accelerator fund. We partnered with the Jersey Community Foundation to deliver a pilot Health, Social Care and Wellbeing Impact Accelerator, improving local charities’ fundraising capabilities.

At the system level we helped shape policy, convene stakeholders and upskill our market. Our local team contributed to PwC work for TheCityUK on the future of UK financial services, positioning Jersey’s role in the British family of financial centres for mobilising capital, linking to Jersey’s own financial services competitiveness agenda. We convened events on the future of the industry and the opportunity to accelerate sustainable finance in asset classes such as real estate.

We supported the JFSC integrating sustainability risk management and anti-greenwashing into Jersey’s codes and held engagement sessions to educate wider industry on the implications for in-scope businesses.

How we demonstrated sustainability at heart in 2025

We continued to lead by example in our approach to corporate sustainability throughout 2025 across all areas of the business. Our staff and new joiners again told us they value the firm’s sustainability ambition. Taking personal action, for example through thoughtful travel and client conversations, remained part of our mandatory firm-wide staff objectives in 2025.

Given the changing geopolitical context, we held a local firm-wide Sustainability Week in September 2025, framing sustainability as a critical business imperative relevant for all our clients. We refreshed upskilling and learning pathways, including our innovative Virtual Reality Sustainability Experience, which we ran with staff, new joiners, clients and at the 2025 Jersey Finance Sustainable Finance Week event to bring the issues to life.

We continued to hold ISO14001 and renewed our global EcoVadis Platinum rating in November 2025, placing us in the top 1% of companies globally for sustainability performance. We also continued as a Government of Jersey Eco Active Business Leader, delivering upskilling sessions for members.

Our core environmental metrics are derived from our 2030 science based targets aligned to net zero, providing a framework against which we track Scope 1, 2 and material Scope 3 emissions. Despite significant business expansion since our 2018/19 baseline, we continued to decouple growth from emissions. We installed new real-time energy monitoring in our Jersey office to better manage our energy use. Our global brand refresh risked creating surplus merchandise locally, but we turned this into an opportunity to repurpose and provide social value. We also conducted a life cycle analysis of our existing office furnishings, to be repurposed on-island wherever possible, whilst carpets will be reused for social housing and community projects.

Please reach out if you would like to know more; we are always happy to share our experiences and explore new collaborations.