turn your climate risks
into opportunities
Protect your long-term financial value
Spend less on compliance requirements
Create profit by reducing global emissions
Let’s establish the path
to your climate targets
You know your emissions footprint.
Your targets are set.
Here’s where we come in:
We meet you where you are at to empower your transition strategy:
CAPACITY BUILDING — Identify your unknown-unknowns:
You need to learn the details and understand the nuance. Level up your knowledge. From reporting requirements and disclosure frameworks to decarbonization and emissions trading:
Effectiveness & gap assessments
Benchmarking & leading practices
Workshops & Training
Executive briefing sessions
Free online resources
GOVERNANCE — You need a structure that works:
Hold yourself accountable to your transition goals & decarbonization targets. Consider how you will identify and manage climate-related risks. Find out which levers to pull and when to pull them!
Enterprise risk management
Incentives & Remuneration
Climate policy implementation
Use of carbon market instruments
Oversight & accountability
CLIMATE FINANCE — Build efficient economic models:
Understand the climate-related financial risks of your decarbonization strategy. Create financially sound criteria for emissions spending.
Climate-related capital & operational expenditures
Sustainability-linked lending opportunities
Internal Carbon Price Implementation
Carbon contracts & purchase agreements
Factors affecting the cost of Carbon
DECARBONIZATION — Implement emissions reduction solutions:
You’ve measured your emissions and set reduction targets. Now let’s optimize your unique products, services, and relationships to lead the transition to a low-carbon economy.
Make creditable carbon claims
Implement carbon insetting projects
Procure high-quality carbon offsets
Identify partnership opportunities
Go-to-market strategy
CULTURE — Align your transition strategy to your corporate values:
You’ve measured your GHG emissions and set reduction targets. Proudly communicate a decarbonization plan that is robust, ambitious, complete, purpose-driven, and shared by all stakeholders of the organization.
Workforce engagement
Empower the product value chain
Contribute to global transition
Strategic review & feedback loops
Decision-useful communications
Transition to a low-carbon economy:
From $14,200 CAD
Ensure you are ready to robustly and effectively incorporate all climate-related financial risks. Climate risks include the physical risks to operations and infrastructure, as well as transitional risks; such as regulatory changes, operational adaptations, or imposed financial obligations. A solid plan begins with a foundation of accountability. Identify the levers and signals that will trigger you to take action. Create robust governance structures to simplify your workflows.
Do you have oversight of climate-related financial risks?
From $14,600 CAD
Global net zero commitments require clearly articulated plans for transitioning to a low-carbon future. Affirmative will ensure that you create detailed and high-quality plans so your customers can make better-informed decisions about your products. Together, we’ll develop a creative strategic approach, and ensure you are communicating the path to your goals and targets.
How will you activate net zero solutions?
From $8,600 CAD
Let’s take a look at your carbon footprint and identify the most cost-effective abatement opportunities. From your procurement and supply chain emissions to your energy usage and the long-term effects of your products; find out how you can decrease your climate impact throughout the lifecycle of your product. Affirmative will empower your team with operational solutions that decrease your emissions and create a more sustainable product.
Do you know where to make the cuts?
From $2600 CAD
Third-party review for your sustainability programming. Affirmative’s Outside-In Approach to Sustainability Strategy evaluates your activities & processes; based upon external interpretation. Affirmative will review the outward-facing assets describing your company’s approach to decreasing environmental footprint, increasing social impacts and creating economic longevity.
Do you know what you don’t know?
Enable Carbon Market Attributes:
from $8,800 CAD
Carbon Offsetting is complex — not complicated.
Affirmative will help you to understand your motivations for strategic offset use and then get clear on the nuances. From compliance to voluntary, nature-based to tech-based, avoidances to removals, compensation to contributions, residual emissions, and beyond value chain mitigation. Where do you fit into the ecosystem of offset developers, brokers, or retailers? Knowing the answers to these questions will help you to choose quality offsets that meet your needs. Let’s find a strategic approach that works for you.
Do you know how to use offsets to your advantage?
from $14,400 CAD
Let’s take the risk out of your carbon offset use.
Once you’ve determined how and where you want to apply your offsets, Affirmative will help you to decrease the reputational risk of entering carbon marketplaces. Together, we’ll identify, prioritize, and evaluate the offset characteristics that align to (and elevate) both your ESG strategy and your corporate growth strategy. We’ll help you to understand which projects are right for you and how to get the most bang for your buck by teaching you to ask the right questions. That way, you can communicate your offset use in a way that your customers will understand and trust.
Are you using offsets to make a difference?
From $12,600 CAD
Know how you are paying, and what you are paying for.
There are many different ways to procure carbon credits. Will you hold them, retire them, or trade them? Are you looking for spot purchases, a forward contract, an offtake agreement, or a pre-issuance investment? Affirmative will help you to understand the benefits, the risks, and the timing of the varying procurement strategies. We’ll take a look at all of the factors that affect unit pricing to ensure you are taking an approach that suits your needs.
How will you structure your offset use?
From $6,200 CAD
Affirmative will help your leaders understand carbon markets — from market trends and leading practices to risks and opportunities. We’ll review the market landscape, the players, project types, strategic uses, and supply/demand factors. We’ll outline how greater scrutiny, trust, transparency, and confidence are created and we’ll answer all of your questions to make sure that your team is allocated the appropriate resources to mitigate emissions.
From $16,800 CAD
There are many ways to interact with carbon markets — whether you want to optimize your compliance cap-and-trade obligations, decrease carbon taxation, or use internal carbon pricing to incentivize low-emission projects. Affirmative will help you to understand when to use RECs, PPs, VPPAs or to enter into the voluntary carbon market. Together, we’ll establish your corporate accountability and identify triggers for you to enter the market.
Pricing TBD
Initiate a change toward climate-friendly behaviour — Affirmative will help you to identify the appropriate method of pricing your emissions. As regulations change and international tariffs are applied, the profitability of your products, services, and projects will be affected. Estimate the impact of future financial risks and incentivize your low-emissions projects by using a shadow price, implicit pricing, or an internal fee.
Pricing TBD
Access capital that supports mitigation and adaptation actions — there are public, private, and alternative investment opportunities for projects that specifically address climate change. Whether you are seeking grants, private equity, concessional loans or other incentives, Affirmative will help you to identify and quantify your climate risks and disclosures to ensure transparency and trust for lenders.
Pricing TBD
Consider how your dollar enables emissions — all of the money you spend on upstream products and services creates an impact that you can control. Let’s take a look at your supplier’s footprint and see if we can decrease your value chain impacts. Ensure your dollar isn’t financing high-emission practices. We’ll examine your partnerships, your employee savings plans, your business travel & employee commuting, and where we can’t make immediate improvements, Affirmative will help you create a sound transition strategy.
