For companies in both GHG (greenhouse gas) regulated and non-regulated sectors, carbon strategy and policy services include strategic risk assessment, risk management, positioning for competitive advantage and climate-friendly consumer product development. We bring global experience and expertise to our work with private sector, public sector, and non-profit customers.

Purpose

Climate change policy will create winners and losers. By being well positioned, companies can significantly increase their odds of being on the winning side of the table.

We work with our customers to determine the services most appropriate to them. Although we do offer a standardised suite of products and services, including entry-level products and sophisticated decision-support tools, we specialise in designing customised solutions for various regulatory, voluntary and branding needs.

Benefits

We work with you to investigate climate change from both risk management and business opportunity perspectives. We provide decision support services that help assess corporate risks to establish the basis for better internal decision-making. This includes the development of forward price curves and analysis of project and general business opportunities.

We help you develop a mitigation strategy based on your company’s own GHG goals and objectives by:
• Assessing internal emissions reductions options
• Implementing sophisticated positioning strategies that allow rapid market entry in the future and enhanced competitive advantage
• Identifying external reduction, offset and portfolio opportunities and strategies
• Preparing strategy papers on climate policy and market developments; workshops and competence building
• Staffing internal corporate task forces relating to climate change policy

We also help develop strategies for international organisations, governments and private sector companies. This includes establishing and implementing regulatory frameworks, procedures and mechanisms.

Features

Our services are supported by a variety of strategy and decision support tools. These help companies improve their climate change decision making. Our specialised staff, who have worked on climate change risk and opportunity management for more than a decade, can provide the following to both corporate customers and public organisations:

Corporate services
• Corporate climate risk and opportunity assessment
• Getting companies positioned for competitive advantage
• Climate change executive briefings
• Developing carbon offset strategies
• Developing climate neutral product strategies

Strategic policy advisory and capacity building
• Emissions trading system design
• Government capacity building
• Project based emissions trading

Our experience

In 2009, our climate change consultancy team was strengthened with several specialists, some previously related to TC+ES, a US-based leader in the field. This brings unparalleled global experience and expertise to DNV's work with private sector, public sector and non-profit customers.

Our team has then accumulated a long list of “firsts” in the climate change field, like writing the first carbon offset contracts, assembling the first carbon offset portfolio, creating the first GHG market software, winning the first power-plant siting case involving CO₂ emissions, designing the first coal mine methane carbon offset project and representing the first climate neutral company.