Environmental Footprint

Environmental Footprint Analysis is an essential component to understanding the carbon and / or environmental footprint of your product. Could you grow your margins by marketing the specific environmental attributes of your product(s)? Undertaking the appropriate Life Cycle Assessments for key products may yield valuable insights into strategic branding and marketing efforts such as eco-labeling for sustainably harvested wood, chlorine-free paper, biodegradable packaging, etc.

MetaVu’s Environmental Footprint practice encompasses the breadth of the following: Greenhouse Gas baseline assessment and economic modeling, Climate Change strategy and implementation, chemical and physical footprint analysis, life cycle assessments, product / process Carbon Footprint Analysis, eco-labeling strategies and applications, and social and environmental impact measurement.

  • Greenhouse Gas Baseline Inventory Assessment and Economic Modeling is a cornerstone to understanding and informing your climate change strategy and its integration into a corporate sustainability strategy. Building and maintaining an informed position on your organization’s carbon liability informs capital investment decisions, asset acquisition / divestiture analyses, and optimal positioning of core capabilities

  •  Assess Feasibility of Emissions Reduction Projects for voluntary, early-adopter, participation in the CDM (Clean Development Mechanism), Carbon Disclosure Projects, and to optimally position the organization for compliance under existing and impending regional / federal mandatory GHG assessment and reporting programs.

  • Climate Change Strategy and Implementation is essential to operate in today’s markets – domestic and globally. Stakeholders, public media groups, and NGOs are increasingly demanding a greater level of corporate accountability relating to the organization’s relative intensity level of carbon emissions. MetaVu has a broad depth of experience in defining an organization’s climate strategy within the context of an overall sustainability strategy to position for long-term growth and profitability.

  • Life Cycle Assessment is typically used to used to quantify the environmental impact of a product throughout its life cycle – cradle to grave. Gaining a science-based understanding of the multitude inputs and outputs involved in creating a product or service allows for a solid foundation from which to make sound corporate investments in impact reduction initiatives, alternative materials selection, and market identification.

  • Eco-Labeling provides a valuable means by which organizations may differentiate their products from those of their competitors based on inherent environmental attributes. In MetaVu’s experience, many business units within a single organization have already made considerable capital investments in environmental differentiators, though a return hasn’t been realized on these investments. Oftentimes, the solution is as simple as taking an inventory of existing environmental investments and determining which qualify for eco-labeling opportunities that would communicate their enhanced value to the marketplace.

 

How can MetaVu help you? Metavu’s experience in all aspects of environmental footprint analysis can make a significant contribution to your organization’s current set of environmental investments, as well as defining opportunities and strategies to optimize those investments in the marketplace.

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