Climate change is the defining challenge of our time—and companies around the world are stepping up with ambitious net zero commitments. Our climate and sustainability team helps clients turn those pledges into action and seize new opportunities to build competitive advantage.
Avoiding the most devastating impacts of a warming planet demands a step change. But while the task ahead is significant, there are signs that a fundamental shift to mitigate climate change is well underway. Change is sweeping every industry as companies reimagine how to incorporate sustainability into business. The early-movers are establishing leads in burgeoning new markets and capturing value created by the push for sustainability.
BCG works with clients to accelerate their climate and sustainability journey. We help them identify and harness climate innovation, embed sustainability at scale into their business, and capture the value they create. Our work is as far-reaching as the challenge.
Sustainable Investing and Finance
A growing number of large institutional investors today are incorporating sustainable finance into their portfolios. Learn more about sustainable finance from BCG's social impact experts.
Energy Transition
Decarbonizing the global economy will require the rapid expansion of renewable energy sources and a firm embrace of business sustainability strategy by heavy industry. We are working with clients to pave the way forward.
Climate Innovation, Technology, and Growth
New technologies and business models are needed to drive the global economy to net zero by 2050. Our team works with clients to accelerate the development and scaling of climate innovation that will protect the planet.
Sustainability Strategy and Transformation
Many companies underestimate the pace and scope of change required to achieve sustainability at scale. We work with clients to transform their business for a new decarbonized era.
BCG helped E.ON reshape its core business into a powerful tool capable of addressing the challenges facing the power and utilities industry, such as how to mitigate climate change.
Industry players have come together to create a $1 billion fund that will pilot, deploy, and scale new emission-reduction technologies—accelerating the global energy transition.
An equitable transition to net zero must address South Africa’s poverty, inequality, and unemployment. Combining BCG’s analytic expertise with NBI’s local relationships has moved stakeholders beyond ideological discussions to a common understanding and collaborative solutions.
BCG recently acquired Quantis, a pioneering environmental sustainability consultancy, to help further strengthen its climate and sustainability expertise and transformation capabilities.
As the exclusive COP26 consultancy partner, BCG worked alongside companies and governments to identify ways to mitigate climate change and protect the planet.
BCG’s artificial intelligence solution enables organizations to measure, simulate, reduce, track, and report their environmental footprint— and to advance their business sustainability strategy.
Breakthrough Energy Catalyst, co-founded by BCG, is working to accelerate climate innovation, including the development and scaling of green hydrogen and sustainable fuel.
Circular practices are a catalyst for driving environmental sustainability in business. CIRCelligence by BCG helps companies embrace circularity to expand their market share and enhance efficiency.
The BCG Center for Climate and Sustainability brings together more than 550 experts covering the full range of sustainability topics, including biodiversity, circular economy, climate innovation, decarbonization, sustainable agriculture, transition financing, water management, and other ESG topics—across all sectors—to support our clients around the world.
Our climate change and sustainability consulting team helps clients seize the opportunity in the emerging net-zero world.
A new study by BCG and MIT Sloan Management Review finds that treating responsible AI strictly as a way to avoid AI failures is incomplete. Responsible AI leaders take a broader, more strategic approach that generates value for the organization and the world around them.
In the face of the looming food crisis, the cost of inaction is enormous—but so is the opportunity to make a difference.
Net-zero commitments are long-term pledges—but meeting them requires action today. BCG experts explain what CEOs need to do this year on climate.
