Unlike oth­er envi­ron­men­tal con­sul­tants — we bring design to envi­ron­men­tal con­sult­ing. This allows us to give envi­ron­men­tal advice and also imple­ment strate­gic plans, com­mu­ni­ca­tion pro­grams, and envi­ron­men­tal man­age­ment sys­tems.

Busi­ness­es increas­ing­ly have to address exist­ing and emerg­ing envi­ron­men­tal issues and our team pro­vides sci­en­tif­ic, tech­ni­cal, and strate­gic exper­tise to cre­ate oppor­tu­ni­ties from these chal­lenges. Our goal is to cre­ate social, envi­ron­men­tal, and eco­nom­ic oppor­tu­ni­ties for busi­ness­es and not just help com­pa­nies com­ply with manda­to­ry reg­u­la­tions.

We bring a deep under­stand­ing of envi­ron­men­tal sci­ence and tech­nol­o­gy com­bined with busi­ness and inno­va­tion strat­e­gy to our envi­ron­men­tal con­sult­ing projects. We offer:

• Over­all envi­ron­men­tal strate­gic advice
• Cor­po­rate Social Respon­si­bil­i­ty Pro­gram cre­ation and imple­men­ta­tion (using GRI, ISO, CSA stan­dards)
• Green­house gas foot­print assess­ment
• Car­bon mar­ket and off­set advis­ing
• Envi­ron­men­tal com­pli­ance and inno­va­tion con­sult­ing
• Envi­ron­men­tal impact assess­ment

Our team is adapt­able and cre­ative. We are con­stant­ly updat­ing our skills and keep­ing on top of the changes in reg­u­la­tions, car­bon mar­ket activ­i­ty, inno­va­tion in envi­ron­men­tal tech­nol­o­gy, and research and devel­op­ment.

Envi­ron­men­tal pol­i­cy must bal­ance sci­en­tif­ic, eco­nom­ic, and social under­stand­ing with prac­ti­cal real­i­ty. Our team brings the per­spec­tives of indus­try, gov­ern­ment, and civ­il soci­ety togeth­er. The core of our exper­tise is in envi­ron­men­tal sci­ence and tech­nol­o­gy and we apply this knowl­edge to sus­tain­able devel­op­ment pol­i­cy.

We work with inter­na­tion­al gov­ern­men­tal orga­ni­za­tions, non-gov­ern­men­tal orga­ni­za­tions, research orga­ni­za­tions, and gov­ern­ments. Our method of engage­ment can be as con­sul­tants or as part­ners, depend­ing on the project and sit­u­a­tion. Our net­work allows us to quick­ly assess fund­ing oppor­tu­ni­ties for capac­i­ty devel­op­ment projects.

Spe­cif­ic areas of exper­tise are cli­mate change mit­i­ga­tion and adap­ta­tion, envi­ron­men­tal impact assess­ment, ecosys­tem sci­ence, pay­ment for ecosys­tem ser­vices, and REDD (reduced emis­sions from ecosys­tem degra­da­tion and defor­esta­tion).

Our inter­est in envi­ron­men­tal pol­i­cy con­sult­ing is ulti­mate­ly dri­ven by our mis­sion to help real­ize sus­tain­abil­i­ty and increase human and ecosys­tem well being.

We pro­vide our envi­ron­men­tal, tech­ni­cal, and cre­ative exper­tise to for­est car­bon projects. Our team can act as con­sul­tants, part­ners, financiers, or as part of a larg­er col­lab­o­ra­tive team on for­est car­bon projects. The depth of our con­tri­bu­tion comes from our expe­ri­ence with ecosys­tem sci­ence and geospa­tial tech­nol­o­gy.

There is often a lot of syn­er­gy between the work we do in cor­po­rate social respon­si­bil­i­ty and the for­est car­bon projects we engage with. We will always aim to get involved with projects that have a triple bot­tom line aspect and which are ful­ly inte­grat­ed with the local com­mu­ni­ty. Expe­ri­ence work­ing on cli­mate change mit­i­ga­tion and adap­ta­tion pol­i­cy analy­sis allows us to con­nect for­est car­bon projects with inter­na­tion­al envi­ron­men­tal pol­i­cy. We can iden­ti­fy areas of syn­er­gy and ways to main­stream pol­i­cy objec­tives with prac­ti­cal for­est car­bon projects.

Our focus is on REDD (reduced emis­sions from ecosys­tem degra­da­tion and defor­esta­tion) and AR (afforesta­tion and refor­esta­tion) and how we can direct these projects towards vol­un­tary or reg­u­lat­ed mar­kets. Part of our role is deter­min­ing the best path for­ward for a for­est car­bon project.

We have a diverse pool of envi­ron­men­tal experts and asso­ciates that can apply their knowl­edge to envi­ron­men­tal research projects. We are able to work in a vari­ety of dif­fer­ent con­texts and are not lim­it­ed to aca­d­e­m­ic research or tra­di­tion­al indus­tri­al appli­ca­tions.

Our approach is ver­sa­tile and it allows us to use our cre­ativ­i­ty, knowl­edge, and ana­lyt­i­cal capa­bil­i­ty in areas that are not tra­di­tion­al for envi­ron­men­tal sci­en­tists, such as in finance, busi­ness strat­e­gy, and tech­nol­o­gy inno­va­tion.

The adap­tive DE mod­el for build­ing teams allows us to har­ness the capa­bil­i­ties of world experts in spe­cif­ic areas to act as DE asso­ciates as projects require them. Our core knowl­edge and expe­ri­ence in envi­ron­men­tal analy­sis serves as the basis for our applied envi­ron­men­tal research work.

We main­tain active col­lab­o­ra­tive rela­tion­ships with lead­ing research insti­tutes around the world. This keeps us at the fore­front of research and devel­op­ment in envi­ron­men­tal sci­ence and tech­nol­o­gy. We bring this val­ue to all of our con­sult­ing and research chal­lenges.