Climate change is the defining challenge of our generation—and companies around the world are stepping up with ambitious net zero commitments. Our climate and sustainability consulting team helps clients turn those pledges into action.
Avoiding the most devastating impacts of a warming planet demands a step change. But while the task ahead is significant, there are signs that a fundamental shift to mitigate climate change is well underway. Changes to address climate concerns and broader threats to the planetary boundaries are sweeping every industry. The early-movers are reimagining their businesses and capturing value created by the push for sustainability.
BCG works with clients to accelerate their climate and sustainability journey. We help them identify and harness climate innovation, embed sustainability at scale into their business, and capture the value they create. Our work is as far-reaching as the challenge.
Sustainability Strategy and Transformation
Many companies underestimate the pace and scope of change required to achieve sustainability at scale. We work with clients to transform their business for a new decarbonized era.
Climate Risk, Adaptation, and Resilience
Societies and economies must take action today to thrive in the future. We work with national and local governments and corporations to build their climate-risk resiliency.
Sustainable Finance and Investing
A growing number of large institutional investors today are incorporating sustainable finance into their portfolios. Learn more about sustainable finance from BCG's social impact experts.
Energy Transition
Decarbonizing the global economy will require the rapid expansion of renewable energy sources and a firm embrace of business sustainability strategy by heavy industry. We are working with clients to pave the way forward.
Alternative Proteins
Our experts help clients seize opportunities in the fast-growing alternative proteins industry—and create a more sustainable future.
Food Systems and Security
Agriculture is a major driver of global greenhouse gas emissions. Our sustainability consulting team works with clients to develop strategies for addressing those emissions while strengthening the stability of global food systems.
Nature-Based Solutions
Decarbonization is just one of the many steps necessary to protect our planet. We help clients build comprehensive environmental strategies that align business priorities with the boundaries humanity must respect to keep the planet habitable.
Sustainable Operations
BCG works with companies to improve operational sustainability in procurement and supply chain and unlock the value from sustainable operations.
Decarbonization
Companies are facing intense pressure to remove carbon from their operations. We take a sector- and company-specific approach to help clients identify and implement high-impact decarbonization methods.
Renewables and Low-Carbon Solutions
We draw on deep commercial, technical, and regulatory expertise to help companies identify the right strategies, investments, and operating model around low-carbon and renewable energy.
Green Growth Acceleration
Achieving net zero will cost $3 to $5 trillion annually but offers significant long-term value and job creation. Our Green Growth Accelerator helps clients drive climate innovation and growth, unlocking new revenue streams and lasting competitive advantages.
BCG leverages partnerships and proprietary products to support clients on their net-zero journey.
BCG is helping American Forest Foundation scale up a nature-based carbon credit program and deliver 1 billion tons of climate impact by 2050.
Learn how the Global Impact Coalition (GIC) is helping to reduce emissions and advance circularity in the hard-to-abate chemical sector.
So much so that the climate action leader has furthered its sustainability mandate by launching large-scale decarbonization and operational pilots that will be implemented across sites.
In partnership with BCG and BCG X, a leading retail company launched a new business aimed at reducing food waste to enhance climate and societal impacts.
Part of our partner ecosystem, CO2 AI enables organizations to measure, simulate, reduce, and track their environmental footprint at scale—and to collaborate across the supply chain.
BCG’s best-in-class sustainability learning platform upskills suppliers and procurement teams so they can accelerate Scope 3 decarbonization and their journey to net zero.
Behind every product are raw materials, but we are using resources faster than nature can regenerate them. Circelligence by BCG helps companies become circular businesses and drive more value from fewer raw material inputs.
A successful sustainability transformation requires unparalleled transparency—from initial design through execution. Our portfolio and program management software helps leaders unlock value and manage complexity through every phase.
Supply chain emissions are 26 times higher than operational emissions. But only 15% of corporates have upstream Scope 3 targets. BCG's Diana Dimitrova and CDP's Sonya Bhonsle and James Chamberlayne discuss the findings of our latest report with CDP and explore how to catalyze action.
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The Center for Sustainability Policy and Regulation brings together experts with deep industry- and technology-specific knowledge, providing clients in both the public and private sectors with a comprehensive view of the policies and regulations they face today—and may face tomorrow.
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Our climate change and sustainability consulting team helps clients seize the opportunity in the emerging net-zero world.
Leaders’ hesitation to incur the upfront costs of mitigation and adaptation has slowed the collective response to climate change. But what are the economic implications of inaction?
Global warming will alter the quality and quantity of water on every continent, triggering a massive displacement of people around the world. Who is most at risk?
