Environmental Sustainability Consulting Services
Providing a comprehensive suite of environmental sustainability consulting services across climate strategy, the emerging field of business nature strategy, and environmental reporting.
Climate Strategy
- Carbon Accounting
- Science-Based Targets for Climate
- Detailed Net-Zero Roadmaps
- Climate Risk Assessment & TCFD
Nature Strategy
- Interface With Nature Assessment
- Nature Risk Assessment & TNFD
- Science-Based Targets for Nature
Climate Strategy
Companies need a robust climate strategy for long-term business resilience, to comply with regulations and to respond to increasing demands from climate-conscious investors and customers.
Carbon Accounting Services
Carbon Audit Express
Providing a swift and thorough evaluation of your current carbon accounting across Scopes 1, 2 and 3.
Benefits of taking action:
- Identify gaps in your carbon accounting and help you understand what you need to do next to achieve readiness for external audits, CSRD requirements or SBTi submission, allowing for strategic resource allocation and efficient planning.
- Get insights fast, within 2-3 weeks if data is quickly received, allowing you to unblock progress with your compliance efforts and target-setting.
- Comprehensive Evaluation: I conduct an in-depth review of your carbon accounting across all scopes, aligned with the GHG Protocol.
- Detailed Gap Analysis: You receive a thorough analysis highlighting discrepancies and areas for improvement.
- Actionable Roadmap: Prioritised action plan with practical recommendations to address identified gaps and enhance your carbon accounting.
- Consultation: Includes a 1-hour call to review your data and a follow-up 1-hour call to discuss findings and next steps.
Going to the next level: If you wish to expand the collaboration, I can also offer customised support to assist with implementing the recommended changes.
Scope 3 Carbon Accounting
Comprehensive carbon accounting with a particular focus on Scope 3 emissions, the most complex and often overlooked area.
- Set a carbon baseline and identify carbon hotspots in your value chain, which is the first step to creating an emissions reduction strategy and tracking progress towards your climate targets.
- Uncover opportunities for collaboration on climate initiatives with suppliers and customers.
- First Assessment to Mature Accounting: Assisting clients from initial assessments through to sophisticated, mature accounting, including life cycle assessment (LCA) methods and inclusion of supplier or customer-specific data.
- Integrating detailed supplier-specific data and implementing best practices tailored to your maturity level.
- Expertise in Emission Factors: I am proficient in major emission factors and LCA databases such as ecoinvent, Base Empreinte, DEFRA, Gabi, IEA, and IPCC.
I have supported numerous clients, including large listed companies, through their Scope 3 carbon accounting journey—from initial assessments to advanced practices using lifecycle approaches and supplier-specific data, ensuring accurate reporting, progress tracking and effective carbon reduction strategies.
I am a trained GHG Protocol and Bilan Carbone practitioner and am honoured to be on the expert panel of the Plan Carbone General, a leading initiative in carbon accounting standards.
Science-Based Targets Setting
Supporting you through all stages of preparing your science-based targets for climate to submission and validation.
- Setting science-based targets for climate (SBTs) is a critical move for businesses committed to aligning their climate goals with the latest science and actively contributing to global net zero efforts.
- By aligning with the Science-Based Targets Initiative (SBTi), you ensure that your targets are scientifically robust and meet regulatory requirements and industry best practices.
- Introduction to SBTi’s Net-Zero Standard and Criteria: Provide an overview of the SBTi’s Net-Zero Standard and criteria to your team. This includes a workshop tailored to top management or other key stakeholders, covering ambition levels, base year selection, target years, and the submission/validation process. I also provide a peer and best practice benchmark to inform your decisions.
- Carbon Emission Baseline Assessment: Establish a carbon emission baseline in line with SBTi’s Net-Zero requirements. This involves a thorough assessment of your Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions against GHG Protocol and SBTi standards, identifying any data gaps and quantifying missing categories of emissions. This step ensures your baseline is accurate and compliant.
- Target development & High-Level Roadmap: Develop carbon reduction targets for Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions, in line with SBTi criteria. Identify carbon reduction hotspots and create a high-level roadmap to support these targets.
- High-Level Offsetting Strategy: Strategic guidance on GHG removals and offsetting projects aligning with the SBTi neutralisation criteria and recommendations for mitigation beyond your value chain.
- High-Level Energy Sourcing Strategy: Strategic guidance on Scope 2 market-based strategy (covering on-site generation, Power Purchase Agreements, supplier contracts, and Energy Attribute Certificates).
- SBTi Target Submission and Validation Support: Assist you throughout the SBTi target submission and validation process, ensuring timely responses to any queries from SBTi to avoid delays. My support continues until your targets are validated.
- FLAG Targets: This service also covers developing no-deforestation targets and Forestry, Land-use and Agriculture (FLAG) science-based targets for companies in land-intensive sectors, a new area of the SBTi’s criteria.
With a strong track record of supporting multiple clients of all sizes (including large listed companies) in achieving SBTi’s Net-Zero certification, I bring proven expertise to help you achieve your goals. Some of my clients have been among the first in their industries to secure validated net-zero targets and FLAG targets.
Detailed Net-Zero Roadmap
Alongside setting a science-based target, I highly recommend developing a more detailed Net-Zero Roadmap to plan out how you will achieve your targets.
- Inform decisions about your emissions-reduction ambition and target years, ensuring that your commitments are grounded in a feasible strategy.
- Having a clear strategy from the start makes it more likely to achieve your targets, and minimises the cost of emissions reductions.
- Show you are serious about your decarbonisation targets and signal climate leadership.
- In-depth modelling to assess your potential carbon reduction pathways by assessing the impact of specific climate action levers across different business scenarios, ensuring a detailed understanding of how different strategies contribute to your emissions reduction goals.
- Precise quantification of the GHG emissions reduction potential of different climate action levers.
- Collaborate with your team and other key departments to create a comprehensive carbon emissions abatement plan to achieve your near-term and long-term science-based targets, while aligning with your overall business objectives.
Climate Risk Assessment & TCFD
Undertaking a comprehensive assessment of the climate risks that are material to your business and providing financial quantification where possible. Covering both physical risks from climate change and transition risks from regulation, market trends and technological shifts as society responds to climate change.
- Understand your business’s exposure and vulnerability to climate risks, informing your business strategy and climate adaptation planning, improving long-term resilience.
- Build a compelling business case for climate adaptation and inform business planning based on financial quantification of climate risks.
- Align with TCFD recommendations, Swiss Ordinance on Climate Disclosures and CSRD (ESRS E1) regulations on climate risk assessment and scenario analysis.
- Become more attractive to climate-conscious investors, who increasingly demand transparency on how companies are addressing climate risks and how this impacts their financial planning.
- Establish risk universe for your operations, assets and supply chains:
- Physical risks include: extreme weather events, temperature rise, sea-level rise, changing precipitation patterns.
- Transition risks include: regulatory changes, market shifts, emerging technologies.
- Choice of climate scenario: use IPCC (SSP/RCP) and NGFS pathways or bespoke scenario to explore how different future climate scenarios such as optimistic (1.5°C) or worst-case pathways (4°C) could affect your business. (Physical risks are more severe in the worst-case scenario whereas transition risks dominate in the 1.5°C aligned scenario).
- Qualitative risk scoring (using an impact x likelihood matrix scale, ideally aligned with your company’s ERM matrix).
- Utilise most advanced climate risks analytics solutions (Climada’s delta-climate™, Mitiga’s EarthScan™) for physical risks, delivering location-specific insights regarding exposure and severity of impact.
- Financial quantification: Provide estimates of how physical/transition climate risks could impact your operations’ costs, revenues and capex investments across the different scenarios. Quantify direct impacts such as asset destruction and indirect impacts such as business interruption.
- Proprietary tool using minimal input data such as asset value, sales by asset, or carbon footprint and quantifying potential financial impact:
- For physical risks: derive Mitiga’s EarthScan physical indicators output into damage and business continuity function (open source methodology).
- For transition risks: focus on carbon pricing mechanism using forecasted prices such as from NGFS, and incorporating supplier pass through.
- Prepare climate reports for compliant disclosure aligned with the TCFD recommendations, Swiss Ordinance on Climate Disclosures, and the CSRD (ESRS E1 – climate change). Includes gap analysis to highlight where your climate reporting needs to be improved and what is needed to achieve compliance.
Going to the next level: I can also work with you to develop a Climate Adaptation Plan based on the results from this Climate Risk Assessment.
Nature Strategy
While less developed than corporate climate strategy, there is a fast-growing demand for companies to address their impacts on nature, water systems and biodiversity.
Climate and nature-related challenges are interconnected.
My services are designed to address these challenges comprehensively, whether you’re focused on mitigating climate risks, setting science-based targets, or managing nature-related impacts.
By offering specialised expertise in both areas, I ensure that your environmental sustainability strategy is robust, holistic, and tailored to meet both current and future demands.
Interface with Nature Assessment
Conduct a detailed assessment of how your business interfaces
with nature, using the Locate phase of the LEAP
(Locate, Evaluate, Assess, Prepare) approach from the
Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD).
- Lay the foundations for systematically assessing nature-related risks and opportunities across your operations and value chain, in line with the TNFD.
- Identify and quantify material dependencies and impacts on nature, preparing your business for setting Science-Based Targets for Nature (SBTN), a cutting-edge area of corporate sustainability.
- Support environmental reporting in line with the ESRS (E4 and E5), as required by the CSRD.
- Analysis of nature-related impacts and dependencies within your entire value chain, using the open-source ENCORE tool.
- Sensitive location analysis, mapping locations within operations or value chain overlapping with areas of high physical water risk, high biodiversity, protected habitats and critical ecosystems. I use open source tools including IBAT, WWF Risk Filter Suite and Aqueduct Water Risk Atlas.
I share detailed results from this sensitive location analysis which can be used to inform other areas of business strategy. - Assess nature-related impacts in line with the SBTN framework, laying the foundations for setting science-based targets for nature.
Nature Risk Assessment & TNFD
Producing a detailed assessment of the material risks posed
by nature, biodiversity and water security impacts and dependencies in your value chain.
This is especially important for companies that directly depend on natural resources and ecosystem services for their business.
- Align with emerging best-practice nature-related frameworks like TNFD, showing leadership in this nascent area of corporate sustainability.
- Inform your business and supply chain strategy, helping to minimise your exposure and impact on water insecurity in areas sensitive to water risk.
- Comply with CSRD which requires reporting nature-related risks and opportunities within corporate sustainability reports (ERSR E4 and E5).
- Conduct an assessment of biodiversity and nature-related risks (e.g., habitat degradation, species loss, ecosystem services disruption) and opportunities that affect your operations, supply chain, and assets based on Locate phase results.
- Use future scenarios to explore potential biodiversity impacts under different environmental and regulatory conditions, to quantify how nature-related risks could evolve as global biodiversity continues to decline.
Science-Based Targets for Nature
Supporting you through all stages of preparing your science-based targets for nature (SBTN) to submission and validation.
- Become an environmental leader and get ahead of market demands and regulations by setting science-based targets for nature, an emerging field of corporate sustainability.
- Contribute to global environmental goals on stopping the destruction of the natural world, protecting vulnerable species and critical ecosystems.
- Overview of the process and validation requirements for setting science-based targets for nature.
- Support in assessing your impact on nature:
- Materiality screening: Identify high-impact commodities based on your company’s material pressures on nature.
- Value chain state of nature assessment: Compile data to quantify material pressures, including pressure-sensitive state of nature (SoNP) and biodiversity-sensitive state of nature (SoNB) indicators.
- Prioritise and define a shortlist of priority locations for initial target setting for each material pressure category, considering environmental urgency, social and justice priorities, and business dependencies on nature.
- Develop freshwater and land science-based targets (ocean science-based targets currently under public consultation, due to be released in 2025) and a high-level roadmap to meet targets in line with SBTN requirements.
- SBTN Target Submission and Validation Support: Assist you throughout the SBTN target submission and validation process, ensuring timely responses to any queries from SBTN to avoid delays. My support continues until your targets are validated.
Environmental Reporting and Disclosure
Transparency through accurate reporting of climate and environmental data is in some cases legally required to comply with regulations, such as CSRD or the Swiss Ordinance on Climate Disclosures. Meanwhile, external assurance of environmental data and reporting through frameworks like CDP is increasingly demanded by investors and customers.
(For TCFD reporting, see Climate Risk Assessment & TCFD in the Climate Strategy section above)
CSRD and ESRS reporting
Supporting you to ensure your sustainability reporting is compliant with the EU’s Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) requirements and the European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS).
- Comply with the CSRD regulation which requires large and listed companies operating in the EU to report on environmental, social and governance (ESG) impacts, in line with the European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS).
- Integrating sustainability into your core business strategy, as required by CSRD, helps you mitigate risks, improve resilience and future-proof your operations.
- Support for CSRD compliance on environmental topics, ensuring your sustainability reports meet the directive’s requirements, including environmental risks and opportunities, strategies, metrics and targets.
- Gap analysis to identify where your current reporting may fall short of ESRS (E1 to E5), and produce a roadmap and best practice recommendations to achieve full compliance.
Readiness for External Assurance
Preparing your company for external assurance by ensuring that all environmental data and claims are accurate, verifiable, and ready for audit.
- Save time and money and reduce risk by making sure your environmental claims are fully auditable before the third-party audit process begins.
- Improve the rigour and quality of your environmental data, making it more useful for strategic decision-making.
- Comply with CSRD which requires external assurance of environmental data.
- Data quality checks on your environmental data, including ensuring any variations in data from year to year have clear and credible explanations.
- Reviewing internal data controls and processes to ensure they are robust enough to meet external assurance standards for environmental data.
- Guiding you through the auditing process, ensuring a smooth review by third-party auditors.
While working at PwC, I spearheaded extra-financial assurance engagements, giving me a detailed understanding of the data quality standards required for external assurance.
CDP Reporting
Supporting your CDP disclosure, the world’s largest voluntary corporate environmental reporting system and framework.
- Highlight best practices and next steps to improve your environmental performance by following the CDP reporting and scoring methodologies.
- Become more attractive to the hundreds of major investors, with trillions in assets, which are calling on companies to disclose environmental data through CDP.
- Respond to demands for environmental data from your corporate customers who are working on their own supply chain sustainability strategies.
- Support your annual CDP submission, ensuring all environmental data is aligned with CDP reporting requirements and best practices, for Climate, Water and Forests.
- Detailed gap analysis based on your previous year’s answers, and against the latest CDP scoring methodology as soon as it is published.
- Develop an action plan to fill gaps, either in the short term or for future reporting cycles, supporting best practices for environmental performance.
- Develop strategies for improving CDP scores year-over-year, enhancing your company’s transparency and attractiveness to investors and customers.
I managed Kering’s CDP disclosure in 2023 and they were one of only 10 companies worldwide to achieve a triple A rating across Climate, Water and Forests.
Sustainability Advisor
Do you require something more bespoke and open-ended?
Do you want a trusted advisor to walk you through all aspects of corporate environmental sustainability, as you navigate compliance, targets and implementation? To be a sparring partner as you stress-test ideas and solve problems as they emerge?
I can collaborate as your sustainability advisor on a retainer basis, offering you tailored advice on all topics within my areas of expertise, for a given number of meeting hours and requests per month or quarter.
Areas of expertise include:
- Environmental regulation and compliance (e.g. CSRD, EU Deforestation Regulation, Swiss Ordinance on Climate Disclosures, CBAM, and more)
- Corporate environmental sustainability frameworks (e.g. GHG Protocol, SBTi, TCFD, TNFD, SBTN, CDP)
- Carbon accounting, carbon footprinting and Scope 3 emissions
- Climate risk assessments and scenario analysis
- Science-based targets and net-zero strategy
- Water, deforestation and biodiversity impact and risk assessments, target setting and reporting
- Circular economy business models
- Best practices for reducing carbon emissions and environmental impacts