Carbon Market and Sustainability Consulting

building a better world through sustainable pathways

Corporate Sustainability
Advisory Services

Experience

Our team has advised multiple corporations on carbon program design, developing corporate GHG footprints covering several industrial sectors, across 12 countries including in the US, Canada, multiple EU countries, China, India, Southeast Asia, and the MENA region. Services provided included capacity building training, the identification of GHG emission reduction options, development of SBTi-compliant GHG emission reduction goals, analysis of carbon market revenue opportunities, assistance with implementation of emission reduction options, including carbon offset project development, and energy efficiency project development.

Capabilities

  • Development of scope 1, scope 2 and scope 3 baseline corporate GHG emissions footprints
  • Identification of opportunities to reduce GHG emissions, across all scopes
  • Identification of potential carbon market opportunities with respect to identified GHG emission reduction opportun ities – including carbon offset revenue potential, Renewable Energy Certificates, Energy Efficiency Certificates
  • Assessment of Return On Investment for GHG emission reduction opportunities
  • Development of strategies and goals for reducing GHG emissions – e.g. Science Based Target Initiative (SBTi) compliant emission reduction goals
  • Developing digital Monitoring, Reporting and Verification (dMRV) tools, and tools to assist with emission reduction estimation, and project financial modeling.
  • Stakeholder engagement, including managing large and complex multi-stakeholder engagements
  • Training teams on all aspects of GHG accounting

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Government Carbon Markets
Advisory Services

Experience

Our team has advised 22 governments on carbon program design, including five national governments, eight state or provincial governments, and nine city governments.

Andrew Beauchamp

Head of Advisory Services

Andrew is Director of Global Carbon Services and has 10 years of experience working in the voluntary carbon market. During his tenure he’s worked on developing over 10 GHG methodologies/protocols in various sectors under GHG programs such as Verra’s Verified Carbon Standard (VCS) Program. In addition, Andrew managed the 2000+ portfolio of projects certified under the VCS Program to ensure quality of credits issued. Andrew was instrumental in the development of Verra’s Plastic Waste Reduction Program, particularly the methodologies issued for plastic waste reduction and recycling. In addition, Andrew was the Vice Chair of the American National Accreditation Body (ANAB) Greenhouse Gas Validation/Verification Committee (GVAC), the governing oversight body for GHG auditors in the US, and previously served as Chair. Andrew holds a Bachelors of Arts in Political Science with a Public Policy Focus from the George Washington University in Washington, DC where he focused on environmental and science policy. Andrew also holds certificates in the suite of international standards (ISO) for environmental and GHG accounting, for which he has also been instrumental in their recent revisions. He also holds multiple certificates as a verifier under various protocols under the California Air Resources Board’s (ARB) Compliance Offset Program.

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Sami Osman

Chief Strategy Officer/Chief Technology Officer

Mr. Osman has over a decade and a half of experience consulting to industry and government on climate change policy and particularly carbon offset markets. His experience spans Africa, Australasia, Europe, and North America, where he has advised over a dozen governments and multilateral agencies, and many dozens of companies on advancing their offset programs, and broader ESG efforts. Sami has developed over a dozen carbon offset protocols, across multiple programs and jurisdictions, has advised dozens of projects and verification bodies, and has overseen the issuance of millions of offsets. In addition to his carbon market industry experience, Sami is a trained lawyer, has an international business degree, and training in risk management and project management.

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Our team has trained hundreds of offset project developers and expert carbon verifiers, including on behalf of Verra, CAR, and the California Low Carbon Fuel Standard.

Capabilities

  • Capacity building on GHG emission reporting programs
  • Capacity building on carbon offset program design
  • Working with government stakeholders to identify priority areas for emission reduction within the given jurisdiction
  • Identifying areas of priority for carbon investment within the jurisdiction
  • Identifying cost-effective means to leverage carbon markets to meet broader Net Zero goals
  • Development of supporting carbon program policy framework
  • Development of carbon offset methodologies
  • Development of verification program, including for training and accreditation of verification bodies including acceptance within existing accreditation framework
  • Training of key stakeholders, including government, industry, and project developers
  • Development of digital tools for carbon offset project development and digital Monitoring, Reporting, & Verifica tion (dMRV), including the use of advanced tools such as machine learning / artificial intelligence, models, & remote sensing

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