Consulting Services
Climate change consulting services beyond footprints, action plans and reports
Helping our clients by providing consulting services across on a diverse range of climate change related topics
Addressing climate change often raises many questions, some complex
We can help answer them
technical
Technical advice to answer your climate questions
Technical Advice
What We Offer
Technical advice including, amongst others:
- research and analysis
- climate and emission impact assessment
- development of codes of practice, policy and informational tools
- training and presentations
- reviews of reports, projects, programs and databases
Access to 25+ years of experience, expertise and knowledge focused on climate change issues encompassing:
- energy generation and supply
- water treatment and sewerage
- transport
- food and industrial processing
- building management
- agriculture, land use change and forestry (AFOLU)
Available to both private sector and Government clients
An Approach Built on Experience
The following list is an indication of the technical advice Beyond Neutral® can provide:
- Research, analysis and report production across a wide range of topics
- Specialist contributions into impact assessment processes on issues relating to climate change and emissions
- General advice and detailed responses to questions of staff and customers relating to all aspects of greenhouse gas emissions and climate change
- Development of greenhouse gas emissions and energy efficiency tools to assist understanding of staff and customers
- Production of quality information and accurate wording for use in publicity materials minimising the risk of unclear or misleading statements being made
- Production of policy position papers
- Reviews of reports and technical information as a part of quality assurance processes
- Review of programs, policies and climate action plans for Government and business
- External review of impact assessment statement’s treatment of greenhouse and energy (production and efficiency) issues
- Providing training, guidance, presentations, seminars and workshops on climate change related topics
Get advice that helps answer your climate change questions
mitigation
Mitigate your climate impacts and adapt to a carbon-constrained future
Mitigation and Adaptation
We seek solutions for our clients providing multiple benefits from each action, maximising the total benefits achieved
The use of effect multipliers is an underpinning concept used to address the twin imperatives of climate change and sustainability
Mitigation is everything you do to improve your climate performance, helping make climate change less severe
Adaptation at its broadest, encompasses everything done to prepare and respond to the carbon constrained future which is upon us
Installing solar panels not only reduces your current footprint, it is a way of preparing your business for today’s future of increasing constraints on carbon: social, environmental, economic
Mitigation is a form of adaptation as carbon becomes constrained
What We Offer
Mitigation and adaptation advice enabling your business to reduce its climate impacts and adapt to a carbon constrained future
Specialist abatement services include:
- identifying and assessing climate options available to your business
- working with you to develop and implement typical or innovative emission reduction strategies and projects
Our extensive experience includes key areas of mitigation and adaptation
- helping drive emission reductions and to progress the required adaptive processes
Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency
We offer renewable energy and energy efficiency services to assist your business explore options
- we encourage renewable energy technology uptake whenever assisting clients develop abatement action plans
- undertaking technology reviews focusing on the mitigation of emissions and on the adaptive advantages to your business factoring in the carbon cost and the need to ameliorate negative climate impacts
- expert advice on current and potential renewable energy technologies
Our advice on Australian programs and policies has helped project development and underpinned grant applications for the installation of these technologies
Adapt to the economic, social and environmental challenges that climate change and a carbon constrained future are exerting upon your business
Land-Based Options
Carbon sequestration and the potential trading of the sequestered carbon has lots of upsides but also potential barriers to its successful uptake
We provide land-based mitigation advice on a variety of topics
- the role of forests, soil carbon and bio-char as mitigation actions and adaptive strategies
- opportunities and issues affecting their applicability in emissions trading systems
- creation of valid bio-sequestration projects and accessing the benefits flowing from these
- land-based climate options for municipal councils, regional development authorities and natural resource management groups
- bringing together synergistic opportunities that create multiple benefits, potentially solving different problems simultaneously
We have provided advice during the development phase of innovative projects
- modular, innovative renewable energy generation
- projects improving rural/ regional resilience by exploring synergies between various resources
- bio-energy and sequestration from non-food perennial vegetation on marginal/ saline land
- substitution of biological carbon (replacing coal) in energy production and industrial processes
Get advice on mitigating your business climate impacts and adapting to a carbon constrained future
validate
Validate your data to identify and resolve reporting issues
Validate Your Data
If the processes for determining your carbon footprint (emissions inventory) are already established, Beyond Neutral® provides validation services, a necessary quality control component of your emission reporting
Validation is essentially a pre-audit check of your reporting system, the data it produces, the records it keeps and the reports it produces
Validation criteria used include completeness, consistency, accuracy, transparency, relevance and conservative-ness
What We Offer
An advantage of using Beyond Neutral as either your climate change consultant or as your reporting validator is the detailed understanding of what is needed for a greenhouse verification/ audit to proceed smoothly
Essentially a “verifier’s eye” will be cast over your reporting
Our experience as a verifier of emissions reporting means we can help your company test whether it meets the requirements of whichever scheme you are participating in, voluntarily or mandatory
This enables you to identify and resolve reporting issues prior to submitting your report to a third party’s scrutiny
Our Track Record
By using Beyond Neutral, you get direct access to extensive climate change knowledge and experience as an integrated part of your team
Over the long time we’ve been doing this, about 1 in 4 of the emissions inventory reports prepared for clients have been the subject to independent third party verifications, typically to the AS/ISO 14064 Standard and to a reasonable assurance level
All of these clients have achieved successful verification outcomes with no adverse findings , minimising their compliance costs and the need to undertake further remedial work on their reporting
accreditation
Identify and resolve issues before submitting your accreditation documentation
Accreditation Advice
Many companies, projects, products or services undertaking climate action seek recognition through carbon neutral accreditation
Australian’s current national carbon neutral program is Climate Active
Advisory services facilitating a successful outcome from your accreditation process
We work with you to develop the required accreditation documentation
- in enough detail and with all of the necessary components for a successful outcome
Alternatively, we can cast a “verifier’s eye” over your prepared documentation
- you will get an honest, independent appraisal of what is needed to get a successful outcome
Engage us to access our knowledge and experience as an integral part of your team
We help you identify and resolve issues about your accreditation prior to submitting your documentation
What We Offer
By improving your documentation and the rigour in its claims and approach, we help
- minimise subsequent verification and accreditation costs overall
- reduce the potential for adverse findings
- avoid the need to undertake further unexpected work in order to finalise the approval process satisfactorily
Our services enabled achievement of successful verification results and ultimately, gaining of the desired accreditation
We’ve Done it Before
Full range of experience and knowledge of gaining accreditation, be it a project, a product or a service
from the perspective of project developer, accreditation advisor, verifier
What We’ve Done gives details of Beyond Neutral’s wide ranging experience
In summary, it includes
- Our involvement in the ground-breaking Queensland avoided deforestation project
- accredited under Greenhouse Friendly™
- Australia’s first national carbon offset accreditation + carbon neutral certification program
- predecessor to Climate Active
- Australia’s first national carbon offset accreditation + carbon neutral certification program
- accredited under Greenhouse Friendly™
- Advice to offset project developer seeking approval of their sequestration projects
- review and detailed advice provided on their documentation prior to successful verification
- Identifying potential pitfalls which could adversely affect project’s/product’s accreditation
- identified early enough, many pitfalls can be avoided or worked through during the design phase
- Accredited verifier under Greenhouse Friendly™
- for products and services
- for Land Use Change and Forestry sector – one of only five companies in Australia
- Also an accredited verifier for projects under Origin’s Carbon Reduction Scheme, operating around the same time
