Video by: Tom FiskSustainability Strategy
While sustainability used to be an optional part of an organisation’s market strategy, today it is no longer enough to do a simple box-ticking exercise. Increased regulations means that integrated sustainability practices are an essential component of a company’s ability to operate and the shift from player to front-runner. From identifying system risks and resilience - to strengthening sustainability into core business strategy; this service provides actionable strategies that balance ambition with practicality.
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A strategic foundation that positions your organization to grow responsibly and credibly.
Mapping a sustainability strategy is about understanding where a venture stands, where it aims to go, and how sustainable priorities intersect with operations, values, and risks. This process helps identify where your efforts align with emerging market opportunities, existing regulations, and client expectations and creates digestible insights of gaps, opportunities, and alignment with broader frameworks. Uncover how sustainable priorities can enhance the competitive edge, attract funding or partners, and guide smarter, more future-proof decisions.
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For established clients needing support in drafting or reviewing aligned sustainability narratives to measure and report on performance, and to integrate environmental, social, and corporate governance factors. This service can support in interpreting the European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS) or alignment with the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), reviewing and reporting against KPIs and developing meaningful narratives over progress, goals and challenges.
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This process is a full roadmap to create clarity, identifying strategic leverage points, and laying the groundwork for building a focused, achievable, and credible sustainability roadmap.
Every industry is unique, facing its own set of challenges and opportunities. Supporting clients to align their sustainability goals with specific capabilities, ensures that the solutions provided are practical, scalable and impactful.
It will includes the following steps:
Context & Baseline Review
Reviewing existing plans, policies, and sustainability actions to establish a baseline. This includes identifying what’s already in place, what’s working, and where there are overlaps, gaps, or inconsistencies.Market Scan
Identifying and prioritizing sustainability issues most relevant to the organization’s sector, location, stakeholders, and regulatory context.Stakeholder Alignment
Where possible, gatering of inputs from key partners to understand current priorities, constraints, and ambitions. This ensures the strategy reflects operational reality and organizational values.Strategic Insights & Next Steps
The result is a snapshot of your current sustainability landscape, along with insights to guide next steps—whether that’s creating a full strategy, setting measurable targets, or integrating sustainability into other planning processes.
Climate Adaptation
Adapting to climate change is not about reacting but it is about preparing. By better understanding risks, you can focus your investments into smart, forward-looking strategies; finetune your business plan; safeguard people and assets; and design science-based responses.
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Baseline assessments and evaluation of existing risks regarding climate, environment and socioeconomic scenarios. This will include quantitative data analysis, spatial data and a mapping of trends and horizon scanning. Clients will be supported with a comprehensive risk analysis on areas, people or assets most affected by climate or environmental risks and other hazards.
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Shaping your ideas in a way that includes climatic and environmental considerations from the beginning, can be challenging. This service will provide support in drafting or reviewing project designs, business cases and proposals to ensure alignment with climate resilience objectives or evaluating existing projects to asses effectiveness of progress and indicators.
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Tailored towards multi-stakeholder and cross-sectorial initiatives and coordination. By mapping stakeholders and policies, this will involve stakeholder consultations. The final product can be one of the following solutions:
a) Integrating climate adaptation into existing national, regional and local policies and regulations
b) Developing frameworks, guidance and tools in alignment with needs or global climate agreements
c) Supporting stakeholders in scenario building and simulation exercises for stress testing of existing structures and identify areas for improvement
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Different types of in-depth, interdisciplinary research contributions such as Policy Briefs, White Papers, Strategic Reports or Guidelines and Toolkits and/or more dynamic types of knowledge mobilisation & engagement such as webinars or workshops.
Urban Resilience
Cities are on the front lines of climate impact, but the interconnected relationships of urban-rural systems is part of a often neglected dynamic and interdependent network. True urban resilience, therefore, means recognising the vital interdependence between cities and their surroundings. Apply technical climate, and sustainability solutions and principles in ways that are practical, context-based, and value-driven.
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Cities rely on rural regions for food, water, energy, and natural resources, while rural communities depend on cities for markets, services, and innovation. When one is disrupted, both are affected. Cities that grow without planning, strain the rural landscapes they expand into. This service supports clients to identify and analyse urban-rural corridors to strengthen cross-regional systems, and develop inclusive strategies that engage both urban and rural stakeholders.
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Green belts can play a critical role in managing urban growth, protecting landscapes, and maintaining access to resources like clean water and air. Nature-based solutions—like restoring wetlands for flood protection, or integrating green roofs and tree corridors—can reduce risks, enhance asset value, and contribute to sustainability goals. Take informed decisions, support community-led initiatives and increase greening, urban farming, and green jobs when developing or applying your nature-based solutions and planning principles.
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Nature is not just a backdrop to urban life, it’s the infrastructure. As climate risks rise, stakeholders are facing growing pressure to deliver solutions that are sustainable, resilient, cost-effective, and aligned with evolving regulatory.
Whether you're shaping a long-term local urban frameworks or rethinking existing ones, the service offer can be one of the following solutions:
a) Define strategic objectives rooted in place, data, and context
b) Align urban planning efforts with climate, resilience, and equity goals
c) Identify key priorities and actions that are practical given available capacity
d) Facilitate stakeholder input and cross-sector alignment in early stages of strategy
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Different types of in-depth, interdisciplinary research contributions such as Policy Briefs, White Papers, Strategic Reports or Guidelines and Toolkits.
