Climate Insight For Climate Advisors

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35 Years of "Firsts," Tools, and Unrivaled Climate Perspective

the climate advisory challenge

Even the most trusted climate advisors and legal teams are awash in science, policy, litigation, and market change. No one can track every critical development, yet that’s what your clients expect from you.

Without a true knowledge partnership, delivering timely, evidence-based advice wasn’t just hard ... it was impossible.

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Make us your knowledge edge; let your clients see the difference.

We don’t compete for your clients. We work in the background, giving you instant access to 35,000+ hours of curated research, scenario briefings, assumption audits, and red team tools: everything you need for top-tier climate diligence, risk review, due diligence, and board prep.

Rapid access to curated research, webinar briefings, assumption audits, and red team insights.
Support for everything from risk assessment, scenario planning, disclosure, due diligence, and board prep to innovation, advocacy, and compliance.
Always behind the scenes: we power up your practice, but never compete for the client’s trust.

Become the advisor your clients return to, because you deliver clarity others can't.

a Selection of Our Firsts

First Offset Projects and Methodologies

In addition to developing the methodology for the very first carbon offset project while at the World Resources Institute from 1988-1991, the Climatographers developed or were involved with many "first generation" carbon offset projects, and have worked on or evaluated hundreds of projects over the years.

First Carbon Pricing Model

Used by electric utilities in the United States and Japan, the Climatographers developed the first carbon market price forecasting model based on a global supply curve and allowing users to specify a range of scenario variables including offset use, offset sectors, and offset quality thresholds.

First GHG-Based Power Plant Proceeding

In 1996, in the first power plant siting proceeding of its kind, the state of Oregon had several power plant developers compete for a siting permit based on their proposals' net CO2 emissions inclusive of offsets. The Climatographers were expert witnesses in the case and developed the winning offset portfolio.

First Carbon Neutral Company

When sustainability leader Stonyfield Farm Yogurt decided to go carbon neutral in 1996, it chose the Climatographers to calculate its carbon footprint (Scopes 1-3) and manage the process of getting to carbon neutrality.

First Climate Risk Textbook

When the London School of Economics hosted its first business climate risk course, it could not find a textbook. Upon request, the Climatographers co-authored "The Changing Profile of Business Climate Risk."

First Business Decision Support KM System

While authoring the first climate risk textbook, the Climatographers recognized that the field would be changing far too rapidly to keep such a textbook current. That's why they started building the Climate Web. Today it is the closest thing to a collective intelligence for understanding and managing business climate risks.

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briefings

Leveraging the Climate Web, the Climatographers can rapidly and cost-effectively deliver webinars and briefings, or support internal discussions and brainstorming across a wide range of technical and risk topics.

due diligence

Companies are increasingly expected to have carried out some kind of due diligence as part of assessing and responding to perceived risks and opportunities. Given the number of risk and opportunity variables and their complexity, due diligence is not easy.

red team

Want to review the big picture when it comes to corporate climate strategies and their underlying assumptions? Need to zero in on weaknesses? Use the Climatographers as a “Climate Red Team” to flag potential problems or put together thought-provoking “pre-mortem” analyses to share with decisionmakers.

carbon offsets

The Climatographers worked on the first carbon offset project in 1989, and have been actively engaged in the development of climate market mechanisms ever since. Leverage our background in your own advisory and market due diligence work.

scenario planning

Scenario planning can play a big role in robust climate risk assessment and management, but can turn into a check-the-box exercise will little true strategic value. Leverage thousands of hours of scenario planning-relevant content in the Climate Web!

customized knowledge

If you have thought about how to manage today’s flood of climate information across multiple disciplines, consider jump starting your own internal knowledge management system with slices of, or a fully customizable copy of, the Climate Web.

what our clients say

From my perspective, the Climatographers and their Climate Web resources offer the most balanced and comprehensive basis for risk assessment and risk management available.

George Backus

Risk Expert, Sandia Nat'l Lab (ret)

Having the Climate Web available is like having 100 leading experts in climate science, climate risk, risk management, and corporate strategy collaborating with you at the decision-making table.

Project Manager

Fortune 100 Client

The information provided by the Climatographers is the best single source for companies and individuals who want to really understand the voluntary carbon market. By providing the unvarnished truth about carbon offsets, the Climatographers set themselves apart from many others who fail to address the environmental uncertainty associated with much of the market.

Michael Azlen

Founder and CEO, Carbon Cap Ltd.

True brilliance with an unparalleled grasp of climate change policy and its implications for business. The depth and breadth of this team's knowledge – from the design and functioning of emissions markets to the details of carbon offset project finance and evaluation – is second to none. As a former employee, I’m honored to have worked with some of the best.

Derek Broekhoff

Stockholm Environment Institute

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