Climate and carbon

Climate change has emerged as one of the most important political and business issues of our time.

At PwC, we’ve responded by working with companies and regulators, shaping the agenda, analysing the issues and developing practical solutions. Whether it’s defining policy, understanding the opportunities, preparing and protecting a business, setting a good example or empowering others, we help our clients understand the issues that will have the greatest impact on their organisation, form a strategy to address them, and then support them through the complex organisational changes needed to put their strategy in place.

Our climate change proposition covers three areas:

Climate change strategy and investment

We help clients plan for an uncertain future, anticipating changes in markets and policy, as well as preparing for the physical impacts of climate change. The climate team works with our strategy consultants and industry specialists, helping businesses manage risks and respond to opportunities as climate change affects their operations, their markets, their supply chains and their investment decisions. We use scenarios and real options techniques to support planning and decision-making, underpinned by a deep understanding of markets, policy and climate impacts.

Case study

Carbon footprinting – Global conglomerate

We conducted a carbon footprinting exercise and impact study for a large diversified multinational conglomerate based in Malaysia. The work entailed developing and implementing reporting processes to gather carbon emissions data across the conglomerate spanning 6 different industries and 7 countries. Following this, PwC will also be providing advice to the client on developing a carbon emissions reduction roadmap across the entire organisation.

With the processes in place, the organisation will be able to start reporting their carbon emissions and start engaging external stakeholders as well as peers on performance and industry reduction targets.

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Climate policy, economics and green growth

Climate change is at the heart of public policy. It is central to energy and industrial policy, to housing and infrastructure plans, to transport policy and to climate-resilience and contingency planning. It drives economic policy, regulation and standards, tax and incentives, as well as carbon management and adaptation planning in the public sector.

We help public sector clients develop and implement policies, strategies and programmes across central and local government. We support their engagement with the private sector, as well as sharing best practice across the public sector. Our work is informed by deep knowledge of international policy developments as well as local developments in climate policy, economics and green growth. It is underpinned by robust methodologies, economic analysis and evidence-based decisions. 
 

Climate risk management

PwC helps clients to understand and manage risks from climate change, building climate change resilience by providing comprehensive strategy evaluation, market analysis, risk assessments at a local level and options analysis across the value chain and investment portfolio. We also advise on government policy, emerging regulations and reporting requirements.

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