Sustainability

THE SUSTAINABLE
IMPERATIVE

Innovating through the energy transition

Economies across the world face upheaval as they transition from carbon to sustainable energy. It’s an era defining challenge but one with the potential to unlock a wave of progress as new technologies emerge.

For over a decade, we have supported sustainability leaders to develop sophisticated methods to measure and compare sustainable performances of products, technologies and services. We offer a comprehensive approach to sustainability consultancy – delivering real business benefits in the short and long term.
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SWITCHED ON AND SUSTAINABLE

Arthur D. Little helps companies integrate sustainability into their business strategies. We do this in three particular ways: Reducing the eco-footprint and social impact, identifying and developing new products and services and customer segments and positioning and transforming the company towards sustainable value creation.

Sustainable Portfolio Management
We help you to define and build a comprehensive portfolio management set of tools that assesses the sustainability and technology performance of your products and services by application and region.
Global Carbon Advisory Service
We help manage the complexity and confusion surrounding carbon management debates driven by policy, consumers, supply chain, etc., for both companies and investors, by providing solutions that embrace this complexity and unlock value.
Understand sustainability opportunities and risks and develop strategy
We help with the key sustainability issues and risks facing your business through techniques such as issue scanning, foresighting, scenario development and risk identification.
Integrate sustainability into your business processes
We help you identify and set up innovative collaborations with partners and other stakeholders to enhance your innovation capacity.
Harness sustainability to drive innovation
We help you adapt and refine your business processes to incorporate sustainability issues.
Measure & report sustainability performance
We help you understand and act upon stakeholder expectations and perceptions, using well-proven stakeholder management tools.

PROGRESSIVE PARTNERSHIPS

Over the past 20 years we’ve become an innovative  sustainability consulting firm – helping over 150 organizations to embed sustainability into the way they do business. We’ve helped companies, NGOs and governments to transform their organizations and create new value arising from sustainable innovation. 

Our sustainability consultancy draws on the expertise of our Open Consulting network to look to the future, imagine new possibilities and identify which technologies offer the most promise. Working side-by-side with clients we help them adapt, innovate and transform to unlock growth and build a more positive, sustainable future.

Learn about some of our recent work below.
RETHINKING CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY
DEVELOPING REGIONAL PILOTS FOR SUSTAINABLE ENERGY
GLOBAL PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANY
INTEGRATING CSR INTO CORE BUSINESS STRATEGY
Our client, a global pharmaceutical manufacturer, identified a disconnect between its business strategy and its approach to managing strategic social and environmental risks and opportunities.
STRESS-TESTING SUSTAINABILITY
A national energy agency was managing a proposed initiative consisting of delivering an integrated sustainable-energy program through focused activities. We were commissioned to test this underlying concept and recommend key elements of the strategy and activities for the initiative.
Auditing the application of business ethics
For an asset manager in emerging markets, we audited the application of its business ethics
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LATEST INSIGHTS
We provide critical insight into industry challenges, accelerating performance, innovating through convergence and digital, and creating a positive impact in the world.
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Digital technologies for sustainability in the European chemical industry
Digital technologies for sustainability in the European chemical industry
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Aluminum: The path to green
Aluminum: The path to green
Paving the way for low-carbon aluminum in the GCC & beyond
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Making sustainability sustainable
Making sustainability sustainable
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Adapting to an uncertain future
Adapting to an uncertain future
How to develop a climate change adaptation strategy
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Opening the urban mine
Opening the urban mine
Building a profitable circular economy based on a lithium battery recycling example
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Getting a grip on decarbonization with effective internal carbon pricing
Getting a grip on decarbonization with effective internal carbon pricing
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Making the shift
Making the shift
Changing gear in the journey toward sustainable mobility
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Is steel scrap the new gold?
Is steel scrap the new gold?
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Accelerating the financing of sustainable transport fuels
Accelerating the financing of sustainable transport fuels
How to achieve lift-off
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Back to the future
Back to the future
What mirrors in space can teach us about innovation for sustainability
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Seabed mining: A $20 trillion opportunity
Seabed mining: A $20 trillion opportunity
The future of resource extraction?
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Accelerating building energy efficiency
Accelerating building energy efficiency
Delivering on residential housing renovation ambitions
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Hydrogen
Hydrogen
The electroshock to the energy transition
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“Speeding up the energy transition is key: We have put our foot on the accelerator”
“Speeding up the energy transition is key: We have put our foot on the accelerator”
An interview with Pascal De Buck
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ESG: Last call to take effective action
ESG: Last call to take effective action
How innovation unlocks economic opportunities in a volatile world
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Our people

Our people create the difference we make for our clients, supporting them with proven strategies, innovative techniques and original ideas that find value unlock progress and create pathways to success.

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We work with ambitious thought leaders to uncover new growth opportunities, build innovation capabilities and transform organizations. Send us an email, get directly in touch with any of our industry professionals or make enquiries by phone with one of our global offices.

 

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