Building a data-driven sustainability practice. How Liberty moved from chasing spreadsheets to assurance-ready Scope 1, 2 and 3 reporting across 43 properties on DASH Ascent.
Liberty operates within Standard Bank Group’s Insurance and Asset Management (IAM) unit, which brings together insurance, asset management, investment, property and related financial services capabilities. Within IAM, Liberty Property Portfolio (LPP) and Real Estate Services (RES) manage commercial real estate and offices on behalf of Liberty Group Limited: retail and office assets, as well as hotel interests, owned and leased across South Africa.
LPP and IAM RES are central to IAM’s environmental and climate reporting, because the buildings generate measurable energy, water, waste and emissions data and are exposed to physical climate-related risks. IAM aligns to Standard Bank Group’s sustainability frameworks, policies and reporting expectations, so insurance, asset management and property operations apply a consistent Group approach to ESG, climate risk and related disclosures.
Against this backdrop, GCX’s engagement with Liberty centres on the DASH platform and the need to strengthen sustainability data management across a complex organisational structure. DASH supports IAM RES and LPP in moving from fragmented, manual data collection to a more controlled, technology-enabled process that improves reporting confidence, supports external assurance and helps IAM respond to Group and regulatory expectations.
Before working with GCX, Liberty's sustainability data collection was largely regulatory in nature. That compliance-first starting point created a set of hands-on, day-to-day challenges.
Liberty moved from chasing spreadsheets to assurance-ready Scope 1, 2 and 3 reporting. Tell us where your data sits today and we'll show you what that path looks like.