We are a strategic intermediary operating at the nexus of technology, markets and policy for emerging and next wave climate solutions.

We help clients navigate rapidly changing technology, market and policy contexts to overcome challenges and harness opportunities to drive growth from the net zero transition.

We help businesses, governments, investors, researchers and philanthropists build and harness markets to accelerate the commercialisation and deployment of zero and negative carbon solutions.  

Design, build, evaluate and reform effective market-based policies and programs.

Understand the interaction between global market, technology and policy trends to identify pathways to realise value and mitigate risks.

Assess and manage the policy, technical and market risks and opportunities of emerging climate technologies and projects.

Take a foresight led approach to technology development and commercialisation, by understanding and engaging with the with customer, supply chain, societal and regulatory pathways to success.

Our research, consulting and advisory services help clients navigate rapidly changing technology, market and policy contexts to overcome challenges and harness opportunities.

Our policy practice in the design, evaluation and reform of climate and clean-technology focused, market-based policies, regulations, and programs.

These include:

  • financial incentives and disincentives – taxes, grants and rebates; subsidised debt and equity; cap-and-trade and baseline-and-credit trading schemes; and
  • voluntary and mandatory information frameworks – standards, ratings and disclosure

 

We help clients develop and shape effective initiatives across the policy and program lifecycles: from issue identification through to evaluation and reform.

Our research, consulting and advisory services include:

Policy, regulatory and program analysis and design.

  • International best practice reviews
  • Stakeholder mapping and engagement
  • Legislative and regulatory reviews
  • Treasury and cabinet business case development
  • Program and regulatory co-design
  • Market sounding and analysis
  • Outcome indicator design, measurement and verification
  • Program logic and theory of change design
  • Policy/regulation/program options development and analysis
  • Baseline-and-credit method development and review
  • Regulatory impact statements
  • Public and private cost: benefit analysis
  • Stakeholder workshop facilitation, interviews and surveys
  • Operational capability assessments
  • Cost-recovery and funding model review
  • Regulatory risk assessments and reviews
  • Process design, redesign and automation

Evaluation & impacts research.

  • Formative evaluations
  • Summative evaluations
  • Program logic and theory of change design
  • Policy framework review
  • Outcome indicator design and measurement
  • Analysis of spill-over effects and free riding
  • Primary and secondary impacts research and analysis
  • Market impact evaluation
  • Multi-factorial cost: benefit analysis
  • Cost-effectiveness analysis

We bring foresight led, systems thinking to the table.

Whatever your challenge, we help you take a foresight led approach to help define what ultimate success looks like. We then understand and navigate a pathway through on the synergies and obstacles posed by the market, regulatory, social and technologies structures and actors in the system in which you operate.

The net zero transition, climate tech, and clean energy are complex issues with interdependencies across local and global market, supply chain, policy, stakeholder and technology contexts. To develop strategies that will remain relevant in medium term businesses, policy makers or innovators need to navigate the forces in the broader systems in which they operate.

We draw on multi-disciplinary range of qualitative and quantitative research and analytical methods, tools, data sets and subject matter expertise to do so.

Find out how we can help you.