Our services - Climate change

Climate change has emerged as a critically important political and business issue. PricewaterhouseCoopers works with policy-makers and companies to analyse issues and develop practical solutions for our clients.

With a network of more than 150 specialists globally, we offer a broad range of services to guide clients through the complexities of climate change and key carbon trading processes (see below).

• A desire to understand how climate change is a risk for a business
• Needing to prepare a greenhouse gas inventory (a ‘CO2 footprint’) for regulatory or voluntary purposes
• Seeking an understanding of the carbon credits market
• Considering carbon neutrality, but need to understand the various risks associated with carbon credit offsets
• Wanting to identify the best way to manage climate change and emission trading risks
• Maximising the opportunities that arise from Kyoto mechanisms, such as the Clean Development Mechanism or Joint Implementation
• Keeping up-to-date with the latest developments on carbon accounting and tax issues
• Managing the verification and compliance processes of emissions information

• Carbon risk management and health check: We help companies systematically identify and evaluate the risks presented by climate change and emissions trading, and develop effective risk management measures in the context of an often fluid and uncertain external environment.
• GHG data management, reporting, and verification: We help clients establish greenhouse gas inventories to meet emerging international best practice, advice on the design and implementation of data gathering and reporting systems, and test the adequacy of their controls over the data.
• Strategy formulation: We help clients analyse markets and policy developments, and integrate climate change challenges and opportunities into their corporate strategy and plans.
• Public policy and delivery – We provide evidence-based policy advice to government and public-sector clients on climate change and advice public-sector clients across national, regional and local government, the EU and international financial institutions such as the World Bank
• Carbon finance and transactions: We work with both buyers and sellers of carbon credits in all the main carbon markets, offering a full range of transaction services.