3Keel helps organisations at all stages of their climate change journey: from getting an initial understanding of their total climate impact through to tracking progress against targets and communicating results.

Understanding climate impact and risk

For many clients, the first step in acting on climate change is understanding the key sources of emissions across their business and value chains: from the goods and services they purchase, to energy used in their own buildings and the downstream emissions associated with how their products and services are used and disposed of.

Many of the 3Keel team have been delivering these sorts of analyses since 2005 and have helped shape the development of leading standards in this area – including the GHG Protocol, ISO14064 and the product carbon footprinting standard PAS2050.

Importantly, we are experienced at understanding what is ‘good enough’ for the challenge you are facing: we can deliver on extreme technical detail for on-pack carbon labelling claims for a brand, through to more rapid approaches that enable decisions to be quickly taken on strategic direction being faced by senior management in a business.

Climate strategy development, science-based targets, and net-zero

Building from a clear understanding of your emissions ‘hotspots’ we help clients shape their strategic approach to climate change. We advise on everything from corporate governance to developing detailed emissions reductions plans, target setting, and data management.

In recent years, a core part of a business’s climate change strategy has become the development of credible short-term “science-based targets” (SBTs). Corporate emissions targets are considered science-based if they are in line with what the latest climate science deems necessary to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement. We have helped clients, such as innocent drinks, get science-based targets officially validated by the Science-Based Targets Initiative and this continues to be a major area of work for us.

In addition to SBTs we also advise clients on emerging corporate best practice in setting longer-term “net-zero” targets – including the role of deep decarbonisation, carbon removals and carbon offsetting.