Urban Climate Action
Providing innovative and practical solutions to cities and urban areas is key for reaching a sustainable low-energy transformation. Perspectives has developed successful concepts in many regions around the world.
- Case-specific identification of emission reduction potentials by urban sectors (e.g. transport, waste management, energy-efficient cooking/lighting/heating/cooling)
- Assessment and design of sustainable mitigation actions in the urban context
- Supporting city governments in planning and introducing sound climate policies
- Support in accessing climate- and carbon finance
- Support national and city governments in helping implement NDCs in an urban context
- UNEP Urban CDM study
- Urban climate action: Pilot projects under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement in Indonesia & Thailand (International Climate Initiative, IKI)
- Urban components under Art. 6 of the Paris Agreement (German Federal Agency for the Environment)
- Energy efficiency building programme in Georgia (Swiss KLIK)
- MAF assessment Mongolia Kenya, Nepal, Colombia
Developing climate change related activities (both mitigation and adaptation) in an urban context is extremely important but involves many challenges. We at Perspectives are dedicated to help our clients realise the enormous potentials that lie in urban areas and to tackle such challenges. Interacting with local stakeholders, ensuring coordination with national and regional jurisdictions and comprehensive technical and financial assessments are among things we offer to help designing best suited and applicable approaches for the urban context.
Marc André Marr
Environmental integrity
Climate leaders must not cut corners. When you work with us, you will learn to distinguish substantial business opportunities from questionable ones, allow your company to establish itself as a leader in meaningful climate action and avoid damage to its reputation.
Proven innovation
We are internationally recognized for our contributions to the advancement of the carbon market. For example, our CDM baseline and monitoring methodologies have posted a market-leading success rate.
Scientific grounding
We are more than just advisors: we help shape the field with our research and analysis. With more than 100 research articles to date, we constantly contribute to the latest knowledge and understanding of climate policy instruments, keeping your business ahead of the curve.
Regulatory leadership
Our experts lead and participate in international task forces and working groups, helping you understand today’s climate policy landscape and the carbon markets of the future.
The first step towards lowering your corporate carbon footprint is understanding it. Our proven methodologies give you a clear and comprehensive understanding of your company’s greenhouse gas emissions, helping you set realistically ambitious reduction targets while identifying opportunities to reduce your carbon footprint.
Your carbon footprint involves more than just the greenhouse gases produced by your own operations. It includes your entire value chain (including customers and subcontractors) and even extends to employee commuting and business travel. We calculate the GHG emissions associated with these extended parts of your business, giving you the insights needed to plan truly meaningful climate action.
We document the carbon embedded in each product you manufacture or sell, at each stage of its life, from manufacture to sale and use, and through to disposal; no matter where your company is situated in the value chain. This does more than give you a meaningfully granular look at your GHG contributions; it also helps identify the appropriate standard to use when calculating the carbon footprint of each product for which you are responsible.
We carefully document the carbon footprint represented by your company’s entire range of financial investments, giving you another avenue to document your commitment to meaningful action and to reduce carbon risk exposure.
