Sustainability Strategy
We support clients in setting bold sustainability visions, assessing their regenerative potential, and developing actionable roadmaps. We build strategies that deliver results—within your organization and across your value chain.
We guide organizations in shaping clear, inspiring sustainability visions—grounded in rigorous metrics and aligned with leading frameworks and standards such as the Science-Based Targets initiative (SBTi) and the Living Building Challenge. Services include:
- Defining key metrics, KPIs, and performance targets across short, medium, and long-term planning horizons
- Benchmarking against peers and precedents to inform market position
- Aligning with global frameworks (e.g., SDGs, SBTi, B Corps, Living Buildings, etc)
We help prioritize initiatives and investments through consultative evaluation processes that balance stakeholder interests with impact and feasibility. This includes:
- Creative brainstorming of comprehensive solution sets
- Systems-level assessment and prioritization of high-impact strategies
- Developing strategic action roadmaps to guide implementation of priority initiatives
We help organizations and community developments move beyond conventional ESG metrics by designing novel assessment approaches that reflect systems thinking and regenerative principles. Our proprietary Regenerative Performance Assessment platform outlines how strategies and investments can best contribute to long-term ecological health, social well-being, and economic resilience while minimizing trade-offs.
- Customized impact frameworks benchmark against Net Zero and Net Positive goals
- Serves as a comprehensive diagnostic tool represents true Sustainability position
- Can be applied at project, portfolio, or investment levels
Informed decisions require a deep understanding of the landscape. We support business planning with customized market insights and competitive positioning.
- Sectoral and trend analysis
- Risk and opportunity assessments
- Leverage point identification
We help teams build the awareness, skills, and mindset needed to navigate complexity and lead through change. Our foresight work equips organizations to anticipate shifts, test assumptions, and prepare for multiple futures—while our capacity-building programs strengthen internal leadership for long-term resilience.
• Foresight planning, scenario design, and trend mapping
• Executive briefings and team workshops
• Custom training and leadership development programs
We translate strategy into compelling narratives that engage internal and external audiences—helping build alignment, momentum, and brand credibility.
- Sustainability reporting and disclosure
- Internal engagement and culture-building
- Strategic messaging and external positioning
Project Profile
REGENERATIVE CITY ASSESSMENT & DISTRICT INFRASTRUCTURE PLAN | SAN FRANCISCO
Defined regenerative urbanism for San Francisco leadership, and led test case through regenerative city assessment and district grid design.
Decarbonization Planning
Project Profile
CORPORATE TRAVEL NET ZERO GLIDEPATH | GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY COMPANY
Aligned one of the world’s largest corporate travel programs with the GHG Protocol, Science Based Targets initiative, and internal carbon neutral goals.
We guide organizations through the complexities of carbon accounting, boundary-setting, and Net Zero goal alignment. Our data-driven approach enables clients to identify emissions hotspots, explore reduction pathways, and prioritize investments across portfolios—unlocking both carbon and cost savings.
We work with you to clearly define emissions boundaries in alignment with the GHG Protocol—mapping out scopes 1, 2, and 3 to ensure consistency, accuracy, and accountability.
- Organizational and operational boundary setting
- Scope categorization and materiality analysis
- Alignment with disclosure frameworks (e.g., CDP, TCFD)
We help improve the integrity of your emissions data—identifying gaps, strengthening sources, and supporting the systems needed for ongoing data governance.
- Emissions data audit and gap analysis
- Data quality improvement plans
- Integration with ESG and reporting platforms
We calculate organizational or portfolio-level carbon footprints using industry-aligned and bespoke methodologies—building a reliable foundation for understanding and action.
- Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions calculations
- Categorize emission impacts to gain clarity on how emissions are spread across organization and supply chain
- Annual tracking and trend analysis
We support emission reduction target-setting that is both ambitious and achievable—built upon a comprehensive understanding of emissions baselines.
- Set interim and long-term emissions reduction goals, metrics, and KPis (e.g. absolute vs intensity-based)
- Goals account for relevant factors, such as projected business growth, policies, technology adoption, industry trends, and peer commitments.
Scenario planning helps assess trade-offs and chart viable emission reduction pathways.
- Establish emissions forecasting model(s) to assess various scenarios, including business as usual, moderate commitments, and aggressive decarbonization commitments
- Examine implications from different scenario commitment tiers on goals, policies, market position, and risks
From insights assembled in previous steps, we develop strategic action roadmaps for key initiatives that are best positioned to deliver to short, medium, and long-term goals
- Translate targets into actionable strategies—prioritizing opportunities, identifying key levers, and sequencing implementation for maximum impact
- Develop position papers and implementation roadmaps to execute on priority initiatives
Project Design & Development
We support the design, structuring, and implementation of climate and nature-positive projects, ventures, and funds that are both visionary and viable. From early-stage concept design to financing strategy, we help bring complex ideas to life. Our work spans integrated land use planning, cleantech pilot implementation, project/fund assessment, and regenerative infrastructure design.
We work with innovators, startups, and mission-aligned companies to bring emerging technologies to market. Our approach helps ensure technical solutions are matched with sound business models, smart financing, and the right partners—accelerating deployment while reducing risk.
• Business Model Development – Refine value propositions, identify revenue streams, and build commercialization pathways that resonate with investors and customers alike
• Market Engagement – Map market entry strategies, identify early adopters, and build credibility with key stakeholders
• Innovative Finance & Governance – Design funding structures and collaborative models that align capital, risk, and governance in support of scaled impact
• Pilot Strategy – Develop and execute pilot projects to demonstrate viability, surface implementation challenges, and attract follow-on investment
Robust evaluation is essential to ensuring projects and investment portfolios deliver on their intended outcomes. We apply a combination of established and forward-looking assessment methods to understand risks, benefits, and regenerative potential.
- Life Cycle Assessment (LCA): Quantifying environmental and social impacts across supply chains and project phases.
- Regenerative Performance Assessment: Measuring beyond sustainability to evaluate contributions to ecosystem health, community resilience, and Net Positive outcomes.
- Systems Risk & Resilience Analysis: Identifying vulnerabilities to climate, policy, and market shifts; modeling adaptive strategies.
- Stakeholder & Community Value Mapping: Ensuring co-benefits for local communities, equity outcomes, and social license to operate.
- Feasibility & Market Readiness Studies: Technical, regulatory, and financial readiness checks to support sound decision-making.
We guide the early shaping and structuring of high-impact projects and ventures—helping define vision, scope, partnerships, and financial strategy. Our work ensures that projects are technically sound, financially viable, and ready to move toward implementation.
- Project Definition & Conceptual Design – Translate ideas into clear project concepts, with defined goals, spatial strategies, and implementation pathways
- Origination, Structuring & Implementation – Support full project lifecycle planning—from opportunity identification and partner engagement to feasibility and phasing
- Carbon Credit Mechanism Guidance – Provide insight on carbon markets and help design projects that are eligible for high-integrity carbon or biodiversity credits
We design next-generation infrastructure systems that bridge energy, water, waste, food, and materials into regenerative, circular networks. We work across scales — from site to district to region — to align resource flows, reduce risk, and unlock new value.
- Resource Flow Mapping & Optimization: Analyzing cross-sector resource inputs/outputs to reveal synergies (e.g. waste-to-energy, water reuse, nutrient cycling).
- Circular Utility Masterplanning: Designing integrated frameworks that link energy, water, waste, food, and material flows for campuses, districts, and eco-industrial parks.
- Technology & Infrastructure Integration: Identifying and integrating decentralized technologies (microgrids, anaerobic digestion, aquaponics, advanced recycling, etc.).
- Stakeholder & Community Alignment: Designing participatory processes for local ownership, equitable benefit-sharing, and long-term stewardship.
Harnessing the power of ecosystems to deliver climate resilience, biodiversity regeneration, and community value, we integrate ecological design with infrastructure planning and investment strategies to create solutions that are adaptive, cost-effective, and regenerative.
- Climate Resilience Planning: Applying NbS to reduce risks from flooding, heat, drought, and sea-level rise while enhancing adaptive capacity.
- Ecosystem Restoration & Enhancement: Designing and implementing reforestation, wetland restoration, coastal defense, and soil regeneration projects.
- Green-Blue Infrastructure Design: Integrating parks, green roofs, living shorelines, and urban wetlands into built environments to provide cooling, water management, and habitat.
- Watershed & Catchment Management: Improving water quality, recharge, and flood regulation through regenerative land-use practices.
Project Profile
GREEN ROUTING TECHNOLOGY COMMERCIALIZATION | NREL
Served as industry mentor to Route-E, a green routing mobility application designed by NREL researchers that was subsequently commercialized within Google Maps.