Resource Blue Printing and Process Efficiency

Clients

Manufacturers that are aiming to reduce usage of resources while also focusing on increased productivity

Inter-disciplinary approach

Combines operational experience with best management practices and knowledge of latest innovative technologies.

Footprint

India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Turkey, China

Illustrative case scenarios

  • Case Study: Supporting Global Clothing and Textile Majors inSustainable Water and Resources Management across the Supply Chain
  • Case Study: Developing and operationalizing an organization-wide Sustainability program for an India based manufacturing group to reduce resource cost as well as delivery times

Services offered include

  • Resource baselining for energy, water, chemical usage and waste
  • Energy-Carbon-GHG accounting
  • Performance benchmarking
  • Techno-commercial feasibility of energy-water-waste solutions
  • Goal setting and operational implementation with on-site support
  • Vendor selection support
  • Productivity optimization using tools such as Lean
  • Systems for environmental management (EMS) and resource tracking

Uniqueness

  • Data driven approach that uses measurement systems
  • Proven change management processes to ensure team alignment
  • Access to cutting edge and latest technologies
  • New management tools developed for resource efficiency such as Value Added Resources

Project Development

Clients

Investors and developers targeting to (a) create a renewable energy portfolio, (b) develop captive micro-utilities

Inter-disciplinary approach

Leverages the operational experience and understanding of best practices to design projects and create efficiency in capital deployment.

Footprint

India, Tanzania, Nepal, Uganda

Illustrative case scenarios

  • Case Study: Operational handholding of ESCOs and Investors in a Pan-India renewable energy based rural electrification program
  • Case Study: Developing franchising approach for an ESCO for conversion of existing DG operators in rural India to DRE mini-grid operators

Services offered include

  • Project Site identification and feasibility assessment
  • Economic and Techno Commercial Assessment
  • Technical project design
  • Business Model Development
  • Project demand assessment (including GIS based analysis of project areas and customer tagging)
  • Preparation of investment grade DPRs Environment and Social Screening and Risk Assessment
  • Monitoring and Evaluation

Uniqueness

  • End to end comprehensive support for project proponents across industries
  • In-house assessment tools for thorough, objective and transparent analysis
  • Extensive primary data availability (especially site and demographic data in rural energy access and resource usage baseline data across several manufacturing industries)
  • Access to cutting edge and latest technologies
  • Strong network linkages across ecosystem (including technology providers, investors and catalysts)

ESG Assessments and Reporting

Clients

a. Investors that are working with their portfolio on incorporating ESG practices into their operations. b. Businesses looking to integrate ESG into core operations in order to use it as a competitive edge.

Inter-disciplinary approach

Combines strategic experience and deep ESG knowledge and extensive resource management experience

Footprint

India, Sri-Lanka, Bangladesh, Turkey, China

Illustrative case scenarios

  • Case Study: Pre-investment assessment for a fund on ESG readiness of its portfolio
  • Case Study: The India Responsible Investment Working Group works with businesses, investors, catalyst organizations and policy makers to identify and create evidence for the link between investment/capital flows and Environmental and Social (E&S) disclosure in India.

Services offered include

  • Pre-Assessment and Screening
  • ESG due diligence
  • Creating and implementing corrective action plans
  • ESG impact evaluation, monitoring and reporting
  • Designing and supporting Social and Environment Management Systems (SEMS)
  • Sustainability reporting
  • Collecting / verifying data related to operational performance, risk and safety

Uniqueness

  • Tools and experience in linking facility information / data with corporate data

Supply Chain Programs

Clients

Organizations looking to manage the resource footprint emerging from the supply chain, with an aim to make them resilient.

Inter-disciplinary approach

Combines an understanding of process, product costing and logistics, along with an understanding of the future market and future resource availability.

Looks at supply chains resources holistically: energy (fuel as well as electricity), water, chemical usage, waste.

Footprint

India, Sri-Lanka, Bangladesh, Turkey, China, Ethiopia

Illustrative case scenarios:

  • Case Study: Energy-Carbon baselining of the India supply chain for a large European retailer
  • Case study: Sustainable Water and Resources Management for the Supply Chain of Global Clothing and Textile Majors
  • Case Study: Zero Discharge of Hazardous Chemicals (ZDHC) Working Group that works closely with manufacturing clusters to identify the prevalence of hazardous chemicals in the manufacturing processes and plan for their elimination

Services offered include

  • Map resilience of the supply chain (and identify potential hot-spots)
  • Value chain strengthening through capacity building programs
  • Score cards for green and resilient supply chains: design, roll-out and monitoring
  • Supply chain planning for reducing resource cost
  • Logistics optimization
  • Supplier tracking
  • Supplier training: design and implementation
  • Change management with suppliers

Uniqueness

  • comMIT resource tracking tool that helps create data driven program design and management
  • Benchmarks established in a few industries that help establish scope of improvement
  • Change management tools that help bring about alignment at the management level as well as at the operational level

LCA and Product Design

Clients

Retailers and manufacturers looking to develop sustainable products or looking to differentiate their products in the market.

Inter-disciplinary approach

Brings together our understanding of product design, production processes and consumption / application.

Footprint

India, Bangladesh

Illustrative case scenarios

  • Case study: Developing a product differentiation strategy based on LCA data, for a manufacturer who had developed a synthetic fibre based polymer product line

Services offered include

  • Sustainable product design
  • Life cycle assessment of products
  • Value chain assessment
  • Sustainable Product Design
  • Energy-Carbon-GHG accounting
  • Goal setting and operational implementation with on-site support

Uniqueness

  • Proprietary RaCE framework for Sustainable product design
  • Cradle-to-cradle view on Sustainable products
  • Leverages databases we have developed on materials, processes and technologies
  • Product design evaluation carried out with an in-house developed customer centric evaluation approach

Investment Advisory

Clients

a. Investors seeking to build a portfolio in the Sustainability domain
b. Businesses seeking investment for resource efficiency projects and/or solutions

Inter-disciplinary approach

Brings together financial modelling and operational understanding; which in turn facilitates win-win deal structures

Footprint

India, US, Germany, UK, Sweden

Illustrative case scenarios

  • Case study: Supporting a global investor in building a green portfolio of small and medium enterprises in different sectors in Bangladesh and Cambodia
  • Case Study: Techno-commercial assessment and investment analysis for a credit line by a European Development Bank for Off-grid Renewable Energy Projects in India

Services (buy-side) include

  • Investment screening and due diligence
  • Fund structuring and capital deployment models
  • Portfolio monitoring support (collection and/or verification of operational data for risk management)
  • Technical assistance and support for investors and lenders
  • Impact evaluation, monitoring and reporting

Services (sell-side) include

  • Investment banking, especially to raise long term capital, whether in an organization directly, or into an SPV (Special Purpose Vehicle)

Uniqueness

  • Extensive in-house experience in sustainability and cleantech investment
  • Proven expertise in deal closure and capital mobilization
  • Deep knowledge of Impact metrics and frameworks
  • India’s largest primary database of innovative solutions (and innovators) in sustainability and cleantech