DE Greentech Ventures
DE brings its world-class knowledge, experience, creativity and network to the new DE Greentech Ventures to bring the vision of a clean and dynamic global economy to reality. We offer the following to partners, collaborators, entrepreneurs, investors, and other innovation-oriented organizations:
- Expertise in environmental science and technology (GIS, climate change, ecotoxicology, process engineering, strategy, […]
DE won the contract to do the gap analysis, conceptual design, and sustainability plan for C-READ (Caribbean Regional Environmental and Atmospheric Database Management System)
DE led the Gap Analysis, Conceptual Design, and Sustainability Plan for C-READ with regional partner, Mona Geoinformatics Institute Ltd. in Kingston, Jamaica. GeoSolutions was responsible for the software development.
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Agricultural Risk Maps with IICA
DE was hired by IICA (Inter American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture) to create and deliver a three day workshop on agricultural risk mapping. The workshop was broken into three modules each covering different aspects of resilience and disaster risk analysis for agriculture. The countries that were focused on were: Trinidad and Tobago and Guyana. DE’s environmental risk […]
Energy Company Greenhouse Gas Footprint
Carbon footprint analysis and eco-efficiency strategy.
A large energy company asked DE to bring their environmental skills to their organization and to perform a greenhouse gas footprint. This project required a systems approach to their operation as the organization was broken up into its key functional units (zones). This approach allowed for operational parameters to […]
United Nations Convention on Biodiversity COP 10 Meeting Side Event
Event creation, presentation design, and video production for a side event at the United Nations Convention on Biodiversity COP 10 Conference in Nagoya, Japan. The side event focused on biodiversity preservation, carbon markets, and capacity building in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and was conducted in conjunction with DE affiliate, the BDA Foundation. DE […]
Communications strategy for a CSR (corporate social responsibility) program.
A large energy company enlisted DE’s expertise in design and communication to determine the best way to communicate their CSR information. The DE team looked to sample international environmental research projects such as the Millenium Assessment of Ecosystems in order to create a way of effectively […]
CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) metric development and analysis of company CSR data.
A large energy company was developing their first CSR program and asked DE to help with creating metrics and also analyzing the data that corresponded to those metrics. This project drew upon DE’s experience in environmental management, strategy, and communications. Metrics were developed […]
Assessment of climate change risks and vulnerabilities related to forests in countries studied in Central America, Africa, and Indonesia.
DE was hired by CIFOR (Centre for International Forestry Research) to provide expertise in climate change policy, ecosystem science, and strategic communication to their TroFCCA (Tropical Forests and Climate Change Adaptation) project. TroFCCA was developed to […]
Development of the forest carbon program and environmental management strategy for the BDA Foundation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
The DE team has worked with the BDA Foundation since 2009 on providing scientific and strategic expertise to help develop their forest carbon projects and to align their efforts with international climate change policy. […]
Olhos no Clima Program with British Council
Communication of climate change impacts on Amazonian ecosystems and the role of environmental management in providing solutions.
DE president, David Oswald, was invited to Brazil to participate in an educational program for exceptional high school students who had been chosen to learn about climate change and become ‘ambassadors of climate’ in their schools. This program, […]