Climate
What can your organization do for the climate?
Climate change poses major challenges for organizations. But those who take action now are getting ahead of the curve and creating opportunities. From carbon reduction to resilient business operations, a thoughtful climate strategy makes all the difference.
What does climate mean for your organization?
Climate change is no longer a future scenario. It is reality that is already affecting how organizations operate. From changing weather patterns disrupting logistics to new legislation mandating reporting. From customers making sustainable choices to investors factoring climate risks into their decisions.
But climate change goes beyond business risks and market opportunities. It goes to the heart of our social responsibility. While organizations struggle with operational challenges, vulnerable communities worldwide are already suffering the consequences: from droughts that destroy crops to floods that disrupt lives. As part of society, organizations bear an ethical responsibility to reduce their impact and contribute to a livable future.
For every organization, climate change is becoming an increasingly important factor in strategic decisions. The question is not whether climate change has an impact on your business, but how big that impact is, how you deal with it and what responsibility you take for the world we leave behind.
The climate transition plan as a compass
For organizations looking to improve their climate impact, a structured approach is essential. A climate transition plan provides that structure and footing. It helps you move from good intentions to concrete action, provides focus and prioritization, and prevents climate action from remaining an uncoordinated collection of separate initiatives.
A climate transition plan is your roadmap to a climate-neutral future that shows concretely how your organization contributes to the Paris Agreement’s 1.5°C target. It forms the basis for all climate-related decisions and integrates climate ambitions into your business strategy so that sustainability becomes part of your core business rather than an afterthought.
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How we help your organization
At Empact, we help organizations create and implement climate transition plans that make real impact. This approach ensures that your climate transition plan not only meets legal requirements, but actually contributes to your climate goals and business success.
Our plan consists of four essential components:
Understanding current impact
We work with you to map your complete carbon footprint(including scope 3) and conduct a comprehensive resilience analysis. This includes identifying all emissions, climate risks and vulnerabilities in your value chain. We also analyze how different climate scenarios could affect your business model.
Formulating Ambitions
We help draw up scientifically substantiated goals that are in line with climate scenarios and international agreements. These ambitions are ambitious enough to contribute to the climate goals, but also realistic and achievable for your organization.
Develop action plan
Together, we develop concrete measures with clear timelines, responsibilities and budgets. From investments in renewable energy to adjustments in your value chain, each plan is specific and measurable.
Monitoring progress
We assist in setting up systems for periodic measurement, evaluation and adjustment of results. This ensures that you stay on track and can anticipate changing circumstances or new insights.
Climate Mitigation
The heart of climate action: reducing greenhouse gases in own operations and the entire value chain. This starts with energy efficiency in buildings and processes, switching to renewable energy and making mobility more sustainable. But real impact is made by also including your suppliers and customers in the transition. From selecting sustainable suppliers to developing climate-friendly products and services: every ton of CO₂ less counts and contributes to the global climate goals.
Climate Adaptation
While mitigation is about preventing climate change, adaptation helps you prepare for the inevitable consequences. This means building resilient infrastructure that can withstand extreme weather, diversifying your supplier network to handle disruptions, and calculating different climate scenarios to inform strategic decisions. Good adaptation ensures business continuity and protects employees and assets from climate risks.
Energy and carbon footprint.
The basis of any climate strategy is the systematic measurement of emissions according to international standards such as the Greenhouse Gas Protocol. This includes scope 1 (direct emissions from own sources), scope 2 (emissions from purchased energy) and scope 3 (indirect emissions from the value chain). Scope 3 in particular is complex but crucial, as it often represents 70-90% of the total footprint. To measure is to know, to know is to be able to steer, and to steer is to make an impact.
Carbon pricing and credits
Make climate costs visible and tangible in all business decisions through internal carbon pricing. This stimulates investments in emission reduction and makes the true cost of carbon emissions clear. For emissions you cannot (yet) avoid, high-value carbon credits can offer a temporary solution, but always as a last resort after exhausting reduction options.
Climate connects everything
Climate does not stand alone. It has many intersections with other sustainability topics:
Environment – Climate measures improve air quality and biodiversity
Circular economy – Less material use means less carbon emissions
An integrated approach avoids conflicting measures and maximizes impact.
From plan to impact
A climate strategy only works if it is implemented. That requires change in processes as well as culture.
At Empact, we guide organizations from analysis to implementation. Our goal: to enable you to realize your own climate ambitions.
Ready to move from plan to action? Contact us to discuss your climate challenges or read more about what we do for our clients.