Climate strategy from A to Z

Are you wondering what climate target your company should aim for and how you should deal with the terms climate neutrality, climate contributions or net zero? Would you like to know whether topics such as removal, CO₂ pricing and insetting are relevant for your company? Developing a holistic climate strategy requires a great deal of expertise in order to make informed decisions.

What is a climate strategy and why does your company need one?

At a time when climate change is becoming increasingly urgent, companies are faced with the challenge of developing sustainable and future-proof business models. A holistic climate strategy is crucial in order to fulfil the expectations of customers, investors and legal requirements.

At the beginning of a company's Climate Journey, a climate strategy consists of the elements that Swiss Climate develops with you as part of a CO₂-Management. For companies that have already developed their emission reduction plans and want to take their climate commitment to the next level, we offer our "Beyond Value Chain Mitigation Strategy" (BVCM-Strategy).

What are the contents of a BVCM-Strategy?

If you want to build up your company's expertise in climate protection activities outside your own value chain and in insetting, which is valuable for the development and implementation of your holistic climate strategy, Swiss Climate is the right address for you. We offer in-depth advice in these areas:

• Climate claims: using and communicating climate neutrality, net zero or climate protection contributions correctly
• Avoidance vs. removal: the role in the net zero path
• CO₂ prize and climate fund: financing models for climate contributions
• Develop or support climate projects yourself
• Due diligence: correctly assessing and selecting climate projects
• Best practice and examples from other companies
• The "Klima- und Innovationsgesetz" of Switzerland

Our offer

As experts in climate protection and sustainability, we advise companies comprehensively and individually on strategic and technical issues:

• Workshops and training courses on desired topics
• Interactive workshops with decision-making bodies to define your BVCM-Strategy
• Climate issues
• Regular market updates
• Benchmark analyses

Your benefit

• Teaching the theoretical basics and deepening the essential topics for developing your strategy
• Fulfilment of stakeholder requirements
• Broad support within the company through integration and sensitisation of employees
• Positioning as a climate leader in your industry
• Credible and transparent communication with stakeholders
• Legal requirements are fulfilled
• Long-term roadmap for your company towards net zero

Find out more about our related offers here:

• Sustainability management: Compared to a climate strategy, a sustainability strategy is more broad-based and focuses in particular on stakeholder analyses and materiality analyses that address other dimensions of sustainability.
• Net zero and SBTi: Net zero strategies and science-based targets are climate strategies with the explicit goal of achieving net zero.
• CO₂ management: CO₂ management enables the monitoring and management of corporate emissions and is a key component of a climate strategy.