Advisory Services
CCA’s principals have decades of experience working in the trenches of the carbon industry.
Our Advisory Services business is dedicated to leveraging our team’s hard-earned experience, expertise, and network to help organizations reach their emission reduction and climate goals.
Our approach is to only take on select clients with whom we are mission aligned and where our value add is readily evident.
We work intimately with our clients to understand their unique challenges and collaboratively design solutions that fit their organizational requirements.
We understand each engagement is unique and rise to the occasion by drawing on our diverse roster of advisors to successfully execute bespoke strategies for our clients.
Our Clients
Corporate
CCA has worked with a variety of private sector clients to design emission reduction, climate and ESG goals to align with their corporate philosophy and bottom line.
- Fortune500 corporations
- Financial institutions
- Energy firms
- SME’s
- Commodity traders
- Innovative startups
- Carbon markets basics
- Differentiating compliance and voluntary markets
- Internal efficiency abatement vs. allowances vs. international offsets
- Optimizing emission reduction portfolio, ESG funds etc
Carbon Project Development
CCA has advised carbon project development clients to build strong portfolio’s of emission reduction projects.
- Project originators
- Funds investing in offset projects
- SPVs aiming to aggregate many projects
- Discovery identifying viable projects
- Due diligence and project feasibility
- Assessing local implementation partners
- Market analysis for off-take
- Methodology issues
- Financing options
- Building a balanced project pipeline
- Mitigating project risk
- Regulatory issues
Non-Profits
CCA has worked alongside non-profit organizations that are dedicated to reducing emissions.
- Climate and carbon advocacy groups
- Trade associations
- Think tanks
- Building thought leadership
- Providing subject matter expertise
- Connecting with relevant private and public sector entities
- Amplify their voice in the media,
- Government and private sector
- Organizing high profile events
- Standing up new initiatives
- Executing in difficult geographic locations
Goverments or Multi-Lateral Institutions
- National or Sub-national governments
- UN bodies and initiatives
- Regional development agencies
- Designing domestic carbon policy
- Integrating carbon markets
- Attracting international climate financing
- Closing governance gap with article 6 preparedness
Role of Technology
CCA is passionate and optimistic about the ability of climate and emissions technologies to play a significant role in the fight against climate change.
In all of our engagements we are constantly cognizant of how our client can best adapt and implement new climate technologies.
Innovative technologies that will play an increasing role in the quest to reduce and monitor emissions:
- Sensors
- Internet of Things (IoT)
- Satellite
- Advanced Imaging
- Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- Blockchain
- Fintech and market solutions
