Climate change and sustainability

Our carbon specialists work with sector experts worldwide to:

• Influence policy, governance, and decision-making, providing technical policy and planning advice to support regulation and guidelines for sustainable infrastructure development; and strategic wayfinding to join up solutions with a systems approach spanning renewable energy, storage and efficiency, nature-based solutions, behavioral and operational change, and new technologies.
• Support carbon management and accounting including baseline measurement of emissions for organizations, programs, and projects; identifying emissions hot spots; and applying industry best practice for ongoing measurement and consistent transparent reporting in line with international standards.
• Develop decarbonization roadmaps toward reducing direct and indirect emissions, account for your entire asset base, operations, and supply chains, and profile varying scenarios and synergies with other organizations and systems.
• Help implement and support PAS 2080 including the practical measures set in the specification across your operations, assets, and value chain.
• Embed carbon reduction principles across the value chain by engaging with stakeholders, identifying, assessing, and implementing reduction opportunities, and tracking progress.
• Support project delivery, waste reduction, and efficiency improvements including planning and designing projects with reduced emissions through lower-carbon asset repurposing, energy supply, materials, and methods; energy and resource efficiencies and reviewing lifecycle carbon; and by using digital tools, BIM, and design for manufacture and assembly (DfMA).
• Improve and adapt assets and their operation and maintenance by turning data into information to inform better decisions and by upgrading existing assets: given that the most sustainable assets are those that can be improved for future needs.
• Build capability, helping you focus on organizational structures, leadership, culture, communication, development, and investment in tools; and engaging and incentivizing your suppliers to decarbonize and share low-carbon innovation.

From single assets to your wider portfolios, networks, and systems, we help infrastructure owners, operators, and investors to realize the value of investing in climate resilience through: 

• Strategic risk assessment and reporting, enabling companies to meet mandatory climate-related disclosures with the right systems, processes, and capabilities. That includes capacity and governance for resilience and its adoption into risk registers. We power your stakeholder engagement, providing measurement and effectiveness monitoring on risk exposure and mitigation, and advise on implementation of adaptation plans.
• Interpreting climatic and natural hazard modeling, accessing and applying climate science and meteorological data to examine your climate change risks. This includes modeling of climate hazard impacts (like drought or floods) on infrastructure, processes, environments, and communities; and assessing your exposure to physical impacts by collecting and cross-referencing with data about your assets, operations, and revenues.
• Embedding climate change risks and resilience in projects, working alongside our multidisciplinary design and domain expertise to identify and integrate risk from the earliest stages, to deliver the best possible outcomes. We build resilience into asset management and financial planning, aligning investments with maintenance, repair, replacement, and improvement cycles. Alongside this, we support project management and track the impacts of resilience interventions for asset performance and lifecycle costs.
• Developing industry-leading business cases for resilience, leveraging our experience developing the Physical Climate Risk Assessment Methodology (PCRAM), a recognised first-of-a-kind open-source method using real-world case studies to improve risk assessment consistency and quantification of the costs and benefits of resilience measures. Our multidisciplinary experts can identify, cost, and design the resilience interventions your asset requires and analyze the performance implications, then go on to support procurement, construction, and monitor performance.
• Providing advice and insight on interconnected systems, enabling you to understand how other factors influence the resilience and adaptation of your projects, programs, and organization.

Our experts work with governments, development partners, asset owners and operators and investors to:

• Shape evidence-based policies and strategies for delivering climate ambition, aligning your policies and strategies with decarbonisation and adaptation objectives, and leveraging climate data to inform your decision making, including targeting of vulnerable areas and communities.
• Strengthen the enabling environment for climate action, developing business cases for private sector engagement, and leveraging opportunities and incentives for greater cooperation across all levels of government and for inclusion of vulnerable communities in decision making.
• Build organisational and institutional skills and capabilities, assessing institutional capacity gaps and taking a patient and incremental approach to capacity building. This includes identifying and applying options for institutionalising knowledge, such as secondments, the creation of communities of practices and the use of digital solutions.
• Provide technical advice for access to climate finance by sharing knowledge about the climate finance ecosystem, investor expectations and investment opportunities in priority sectors and technologies, and by supporting the origination and design of projects able to attract climate finance.
• Implement climate solutions such as renewable energy, climate smart agriculture, sea defence strengthening, coastal engineering, catchment management and restoration of ecosystems.