Climate Change Planning and Development

To navigate climate risks and the low carbon transition, and to respond to emerging policy requirements, sustainable and resilient decision-making is imperative. Developing a climate-informed strategy will help you build resilience and increase economic, social and environmental value over the long-term.

Featured capabilities

We develop climate change adaptation and greenhouse gas mitigation strategies for all sectors. We apply nationally recognized frameworks such as ICLEI Canada’s Building Adaptive and Resilient Communities (BARC) Framework, the One Planet Living framework, ISO Standards, CDP and more. Our approach is scalable from the asset-level to organizational or regional strategies, and for all levels of government. We can help you integrate climate-informed decision-making into your planning processes, locking in resilience and sustainability for the long term.

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Climate adaptation and resilience solutions

By applying our expertise in climate science, business, infrastructure, and planning, we can help you identify solutions to address your climate change risks and opportunities. We develop a range of “hard” and “soft” measures, including engineering and design solutions, policy recommendations, improvements to processes and standards, and resilient investment strategies.

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Portfolio scale sustainability and resilience strategies

We can develop strategies to help you improve the sustainability and resilience of your assets, operations, and communities. We can help you assess and benchmark GHG’s and climate risks, set science-based targets, and engage with stakeholders. We also help you integrate sustainability into your broader ESG framework, ensuring a holistic transition to a low-carbon economy.

Policy development

We can develop policies, standards and guidelines to support you in implementing climate resilience and sustainability across your organization or sector. Our process is tailored to your unique climate-related risks and opportunities and aligned with national and global best practices.

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Climate-centric land use and development planning

We can integrate climate resilience and sustainability into planning policy, master plans, official plans, growth strategies and more. We can help you understand your community’s risks and opportunities and develop solutions that create low carbon, climate resilient communities.

Climate Change, Resilience and Sustainability

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Additional capabilities

Engagement, training and capacity building
Science-based targets and net zero emissions pathways
Research and thought leadership
Climate risk mapping
Cost-benefit analysis and business case development

Clients we help

Investors, businesses and industry

Our team can develop sustainability and ESG strategies to help you meet your own objectives and the expectations of stakeholders and investees. We provide a range of planning services, starting with measuring risks and opportunities, benchmarking your performance, and creating action plans to help you reduce risks and maximize opportunities related to climate change and ESG. Our holistic approach will help you understand the full scope of ESG and embed climate change considerations into operations and decision-making at all levels, helping you stay ahead.

Infrastructure owners and operators

We understand the impact of current and anticipated climate-related disruptors on a wide range of infrastructure and geographies. Using our technical knowledge of physical infrastructure, we help identify cost-effective sustainability and resilience measures to reduce risks and improve the performance of your assets. We help you benefit from improved operations and services, more sustainable infrastructure, and innovative solutions in climate risk management.

Government

Whether you need to achieve net zero energy targets, update or create a climate change plan, design climate adaptation and mitigation programs, or all the above, we can develop a strategy to support your needs. We create practical roadmaps that reduce damage and disruptions to public assets and services, foster healthier communities with enhanced natural and built environments, and promote resilient, sustainable infrastructure.

Real estate

We can help you develop a comprehensive strategy to manage climate risks and build resilience and sustainability for your real assets. Based on your asset portfolio, geography, timeframe, and objectives, we help you determine priority climate change risks and opportunities and develop a path forward. Our strategies help you reduce physical and financial risks, and improve the sustainability and efficiency of your assets and operations, while building capacity at the organizational level to make more climate-informed decisions.