The business challenges are very real and immediate.

The business challenges are very real and immediate. Lawmakers are mandating a carbon-constrained world, customers are demanding more information about the goods and services they consume, and the price of carbon will soon materially affect the cost of doing business for thousands of companies.

As it has done for 145 years, DNV is leading the way in helping companies adapt to a carbon-constrained world. We understand climate science, climate policy, business risk, risk management. We can help manage carbon risk, and create opportunities in the face of uncertainty.

DNV collaborates with customers to develop a 360-degree blueprint of climate change risks and opportunities, from the immediate challenges of regulatory and brand risk, to the longer term impacts of climate change itself.

The first step in managing risk is to understand the problem. DNV tracks the climate change arena, and can provide the most up-to date analyses of policy, markets, and technology trends. We can provide customized internal training and seminars that get you critical decision-makers up to speed fast.

We then support you in identifying and quantifying climate risks and opportunities, through carbon footprints, energy audits, carbon price forecasting, and portfolio due diligence.

In developing and implementing a corporate strategy, DNV can help with scenario analysis, with incorporating corporate goals and risk sensitivity into a corporate strategy development, and responding to stakeholder concerns and objectives. Strategic initiatives can include emissions reduction targets, assigning a shadow price to carbon in financial decision making, entering the carbon markets, or pursuing carbon neutrality (at the corporate, product, or event level).

If strategies are already in place, DNV offers independent third-party validation and verification services at the project and corporate levels.

Finally, communicating what you’ve done accurately and transparently is a critical last step in the cycle, and DNV has years of experience in reporting, in green branding message assurance, and in stakeholder outreach, internal communications, and consensus-building.

The bottom line is that climate change looms as a game changer. By actively managing the cycle of risk, you increase your chances of changing the game in you favor.