Sustainability

Asset and landscape-scale sustainability planning, monitoring and reporting to ensure prosperity today without compromising future generations.

  • Supporting organisations to understand scope 1 - 3 emissions and develop strategies to transition to a Net Zero operation and supply chain that considers financial and operational risk.

  • Sustainability reporting that considers social and environmental impacts, supply chain practices and ethical compliance.

  • Working with public and private asset owners on fleet and asset portfolio transition management, evaluating economic options and transition pathways, optimising the transition plan to minimise operational disruption, while identifying optimal infrastructure investments to support a phased transition program.

  • We assist organizations in transitioning from linear production models to sustainable, closed-loop systems that maximize resource efficiency and minimize waste. This service emphasizes regenerative strategies, ensuring materials and products are designed, used, and recycled in an ongoing cycle.

  • Carbon footprint and lifecycle assessment provides a holistic view of environmental impacts. Evaluating emissions across scope 1 to 3 of your operations or project lifecycle, from procurement and production to distribution and disposal. Our assessments aid in understanding your carbon footprint, identifying key impact areas, and designing strategies for emission reduction.

  • Waste and materials transition services to help organizations and communities to optimise waste stream management and material use, shifting towards sustainable practices that reduce environmental impact, enhance resource efficiency, and support circular economy principles.

  • We assist clients in understanding and leveraging environmental and sustainable finance instruments, from carbon credits to biodiversity to reef credits. Our team helps develop and implement strategies for environmentally exposed enterprises to understand, value, and engage in nature markets.

Case Study: Towards net zero for Australian agriculture, fisheries and forestry

In the context of a global net zero transition, agriculture, fisheries and forestry is considered a difficult to abate sector. AgriFutures Australia engaged Acclimate Partners to assess the pathways available to the reduce the sector’s dependency on mineral diesel fuel – its primary source of energy and contributor to the sector’s emissions. In developing recommendations, we engaged broadly across stakeholders spanning producers, investors, policy makers, fuel suppliers, alternative energy companies, global equipment and machinery manufacturers, and research organisations. 

Acclimate Partners produced the report, The Diesel Transition: Petroleum diesel alternatives for the Australian agriculture, fisheries and forestry sector, which recommended practical steps for a sector-scale transition. We were subsequently engaged to lead the development of the national diesel transition plan, advancing our research further and building practical place-based transition approaches to suit Australia’s diverse regional areas, farming systems, and community aspirations.

Read our report here.

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Case study: Balancing environmental and economic interests in one of the world’s largest natural capital assets

The Lake Eyre Basin is of conservation significance on a world scale. It is one of the last water catchments around the globe to flow without interruption. Threats to the Basin and its waterways are from land-uses, pest plants and animals, and development.

The Australian Government engaged Alluvium Consulting and Acclimate Partners to develop the Lake Eyre Basin (LEB) strategic plan and governance arrangements. The plan establishes cross-border coordination for policy and program implementation, business investment, and the sustainability of the natural asset.

Engaging with key stakeholders, Acclimate Partners structured the strategy and conducted a review to align and integrate objectives of all Commonwealth and State Government strategies applicable to the environment and social context of the basin. We established governance for management of the natural asset in the context of a whole of government reform that impacted inter-governmental arrangements affecting how cross-border disputes could be managed.

The work drew on Acclimate Partners’ Placelink® methodology to enable greater harmonisation of public sector resources focused on the Lake Eyre Basin, maximising the impact of multiple programs and initiatives across the Basin jurisdictions and local government areas.

Managing intergovernmental agreement across four States and Territories required a robust approach to governance. The governance design developed by Acclimate Partners included options and a recommended model that fit the machinery of government changes following the COAG reforms and Conran Review.

As a result, communities and governments committed to collaborative, cross-border management of the LEB in response to threats to its waterways from certain land-uses, pest plants and animals, and development.

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