Climate Risks & Innovation

We engaged Climate Matters to baseline our current business model in relation to GHG emissions. As we are progressing our products towards carbon neutrality, we wanted to baseline our emissions and engage with our suppliers to do the same. We also looked at some future scenario analysis to identify the potential scale of some higher impact climate risks and will build into our strategic planning. We also identified opportunities for an agile company like MAF to anticipate future market trends.

Masons Animal Feed

We engaged Climate Matters to carry out a Business Model review and to develop a GHG inventory for our direct emissions for our chosen base year. We also looked into supply Chain risks including future scenario analysis of climate risks such as water scarcity. Climate Matters has enabled Cloud Picker Coffee to measure our impact on the environment within the GHG Framework as well as considering how climate risks might impact our business model. This sets up to discuss the same with our supply chain and customers and to progress Cloud Picker towards BCorp status.  

cloudpickercoffee

We at CollegeGroup wanted to carry out a climate risk audit for some time but weren’t sure where to start and thought it would take much longer than it did. Within 3 weeks, Climate Matters Ltd had developed a deep understanding of our business model, challenged it against climate risks & quantified them. Not only that we assessed how both technology and business model innovation can  grow our businesses while hedging carbon risk within the business & the supply chains. We feel this exercise has given us confidence in our business model and helped focus the key areas for change in the short and long term. Our recently commissioned bio-diesel plant is a key step for us alongside the new business lines for further resource recovery.

Collegegroup.ie

At Silver Hill Duck, we engaged TCFD specialists, Climate Matters Ltd, to carry out a Climate Risks Analysis of our current business and future strategy. We have been members of Origin Green for 9 years and became a gold member in 2021 so collecting and managing environmental data is part of our DNA. The TCFD climate risk analysis pushed us to look at longer horizons, appropriate to our infrastructure, and test our assumptions against Physical and Transition Risks. We have embedded Climate Risks into our Risk Management Process and focus also on the opportunities that exist for Silver Hill Duck, during this transition from a high to low carbon economy.

Silver Hill Duck

Agency X have been considering the impact of our business on the environment for some time. Working with Climate Matters helped us to quantify the emissions we are responsible for directly and also to start considering those emissions in our supply chain. While we have a small impact as a services company, we were keen to explore where we can make those smaller changes. We gained a clear sense of “The Why”, what GHGs are and their Global Warming Potential, Life Cycle Assessment, the 3 scopes of emissions sources and workshopped the opportunities to reduce our impact. Since then our whole team has become engaged and we can talk knowledgeably to suppliers and clients.

AGENCY X