The Global Carbon Advisory Service helps companies make business sense of complex carbon issues

Consolidating some 40 years' experience in advising clients on the opportunities and risks in sustainability, climate change and the carbon agenda, the Global Carbon Advisory Service (GCAS) maintains the leading edge capabilities of the firm's Global Practices - both Industry and Functional.

"The service will strengthen the leading-edge capabilities of the firm’s Industry and Functional Practices and consolidate some 40 years' experience in advising clients in climate change, sustainability and the carbon agenda. Arthur D. Little’s GCAS will help clients take a broad view of carbon issues, from value creation through to addressing risk and step-changes in customer requirements."

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How we can help

We help manage the complexity and confusion surrounding carbon management debates driven by policy, consumers, supply chain etc. for both companies and investors by providing solutions that embrace the complexity and unlock value. We can pull together environmental, economic, policy drivers for carbon into something that makes corporate strategy development manageable.

We not only build on assurance, valuation and market analyses to address how carbon will affect the bottom line today, but we also look at value created in tomorrow's markets while appreciating and understanding the role of discontinuities or step-changes in consumer requirements.

We help you assess your current and future carbon impacts, and develop a strategy for addressing them. We help you design, pilot, rollout and integrate appropriate carbon management processes. We help you develop your energy technology strategy and improve your energy efficiency.

We understand the role of emerging and potential technologies and mechanisms in addressing climate change and we have the breadth that is necessary in terms of timing, from short to long term, geographically, with teams across Europe, USA, SE Asia, and measures that include energy supply, energy demand, efficiency and behavior.

Services Offered

We help companies manage carbon through five key steps:

Assess risks and opportunities: Understand potential risks/opportunities relating to direct and indirect CO2 emissions & downstream product use
- Understand potential risks and opportunities (regulatory, costs, revenue and reputation)
- Identify risks and opportunities by country and sector
Identify strategic options: Identify strategic options based on the company's current situation, market development and future ambitions
- Identify and prioritise key drivers of change behind carbon constraints on future markets
- Review competencies underpinning competitiveness
- Identify specific opportunities and risks based on business strategy
Develop investment strategy: Develop strategy based on a consideration of drivers of change and likely future carbon scenarios
- Develop strategy based on: Direct emissions (low carbon technology and CO2 value chain, carbon markets, offsets), Energy sourcing (e.g. renewables, distributed energy) and Indirect impacts (product stewardship)
- Select portfolio of actions
Implement: Manage risks and exploit carbon related opportunities through selecting appropriate strategic options
- Implement strategic options (low carbon technology and innovation management, energy demand management, energy sourcing solutions and carbon market and offset opportunities)
- Integration into business strategy
Measure and report: Measure and communicate carbon management performance
- Measure and project current and future carbon emissions
- Determine reporting boundaries e.g. operational control vs. equity share
- Select and report targets aligned with business strategy
- Measure revenue and profit impacts