Strategy

Our sustainability strategy services include the following:

Sustainability strategy
Sustainable service development
Sustainability business cases

Sustainability strategy

We help clients to understand their sustainability context and define the best strategy to maximise business benefit whilst responding to the expectations of stakeholders.

Clients have worked with Carbon Smart to:

Establish a strategy to match and overtake the sustainability credentials of key competitors in the financial services sector
Engage multiple departments of a world leading university to reach consensus on a united direction for their sustainability programme
Develop a Europe wide strategy for energy management in storage and distribution
Develop a clear global approach to carbon offsetting for a leading intergovernmental organisation

Our view

Corporate sustainability can be like herding cats – many initiatives, at different levels of maturity, pulling effort and resource in different directions. Carbon Smart delivers the clear rationale to say yes to this and no to that.

There is no one size-fits-all approach: it depends on your industry, your competitors, your business plan. What does best practice look like in your industry? What are the key reputational risks and opportunities? We find the take on sustainability that best suits our clients: the musts and the nice to haves; whether they want to trailblaze or simply manage risks effectively – so they know which cats are worth herding.

Sustainability service development

We help our clients bring new sustainability-related services to market.

Clients have worked with Carbon Smart to:

Use sustainability practices as a critical competitive advantage in very large scale public sector support contracts
Develop a unique industry leading sustainability group, with significant differential in its market
Develop a revolutionary exhibition space and sustainability message for a global industry leaders conference
Drive collaboration and engagement throughout a national supply chain

Our view

Sustainability is a business opportunity. It is a way to differentiate what you offer. Carbon Smart makes sustainability work for our clients – we use it to frame or enhance their work to help them win new business or strengthen key relationships. We help our clients bring new sustainability-related services to market: from product positioning to recruitment support, our clients evolve with the sustainability agenda.

Sustainability business cases

We help our clients make the decision whether to proceed based on the full understanding of the costs and benefits.

Clients have worked with Carbon Smart to:

Agree budget and action on a complete overhaul of their European recycling practices, saving many thousands of pounds per year
Drive sustainability changes through a multi-year estates development programme
Build a comprehensive plan for investment in energy efficiency in accommodation

Our view

Sustainability achievements often involve investment. We help our clients make the decision whether to proceed based on the full understanding of the costs and benefits that our track record brings. As well as robust appraisals of the payback period, this includes an assessment of how ‘difficult’ the measure is: some measures are ‘fit-and-forget’ solutions, others will be more involved, requiring significant staff input but may for example be less capital intensive. Our clients use our compelling and transparent business cases to secure the budget for sustainability measures and to ensure their maintenance staff understand the rationale behind the measure.

Our strategy work

Our strategy team

Ben Murray

Managing Director

Louise Quarrell

Director

Julie Craig

Director

Strategy

Our strategy work

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Quilter Cheviot

Royal Bank of Scotland

Finding a new approach to sustainable procurement certification

Our strategy team

Ben Murray

Louise Quarrell

Julie Craig