Sustainability Advisory Services
“Sustainability is likely to be the primary strategy for achieving business success in the 21st century.”
—Frank Dixon, advisor to Wal*Mart
As corporations' ecological impact increases, environmental problems become business problems – your problems. In the near term, improving energy efficiency and reducing your carbon footprint will help save money, alleviate environmental pressures, and keep your business on track. But what about the long term? What regulatory risks does your firm face as mandatory efficiency standards are raised and carbon trading schemes established? How can your firm stay ahead of the rapidly changing technology curve? Will you be able to attract a higher-quality, better-motivated workforce if your business is greener?
Nexamp can help your firm work through the complex issues surrounding long-term sustainability in the face of dramatic economic, regulatory, environmental, and social change. Most importantly, we can help you establish the ongoing capability to monitor your progress, benchmark your firm against the competition, and maintain a permanent in-house management capability to anticipate change and make the right decisions. We do this by helping you:
- Establish the right management structure
- Develop and communicate a long term vision and strategy
- Develop the necessary measurement and analytical systems to establish a baseline and measure progress
- Develop a long term plan of action with regular reviews
- Identify and address training needs
- Implement a comprehensive, integrated, and cost-effective program of improvements
- Report results to management and stakeholders
Sustainability is also a concern of local governments, municipal utilities, and NGOs. Nexamp can help these organizations measure their carbon footprints and plot a course to an economically and environmentally sustainable future. Learn more about climate change and sustainable development.
Carbon Footprint
Nexamp’s comprehensive energy assessment enables you to determine your carbon footprint. We use the latest and most highly respected GHG accounting protocols, like the World Resources Institute's protocol, to ensure that both your baseline emissions and any carbon reductions are properly measured. This accounting is essential to capturing the economic value of your CO2 reductions for future sale or trading. Nexamp will work with you to develop a plan, consistent with your firm’s budget and business strategy, for reducing carbon over the long term.
Risk Assessment
We know that businesses and other organizations face a wide variety of threats -- that's why we tailor our analysis of environment, energy, and climate change threats to your total risk profile. We then work with you to analyze specifically your carbon risk, energy risk (including regulatory and price risk), and related environmental risks. This analysis is integrated into an overall risk assessment that provides the basis for decision-making on specific actions.
Sustainability Road Map
Successful businesses and governments must anticipate change. Nexamp will work with you to develop a long-term sustainability road map that will help you chart your course for the future in the face of dramatic change. While improving your efficiency and reducing your environmental impact, we will give you options to increase your firm’s competitive advantage, improve your brand image, and deliver a better bottom line. Unlike consulting firms, Nexamp will continue to work with your company or organization to implement your road map, staying with you as a partner over the long term, advising and even financing implementation when needed.
Governance and Reporting
Sustainability can be pursued in one of two ways: 1) the incremental path, focused on improving short-term profitability and shareholder value or 2) the transformational path, aimed at fundamental systemic change throughout the corporation. The corporate governance required for these two paths may be quite different. Nexamp will help your management team decide which path they want to take and how to organize themselves to do so. In either case, reporting results will be crucial to gain support and to capture the full value of the effort. Nexamp will assist in developing the reporting structure (drawing on the Global Reporting Initiative) that best fits your organization’s goals.
To learn more about Nexamp’s advisory services contact John Armstrong, Managing Director, at
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