CPCS finds climate change mitigation and adaptation solutions for better, cleaner transportation and power systems, assets, and services.
Our climate change advisory services span developing pathways to reduce emissions in transport and energy systems, accelerating electrification of passenger and freight transport, preparing strategies for lower-carbon supply chains, mobilizing climate finance for infrastructure projects including PPPs, and advising governments seeking stronger policies, regulatory and institutional frameworks to deliver and run sustainable transportation and energy systems.
No place for climate inaction when it’s “code red for humanity” and damage toll worsening
The world’s global transport and energy infrastructure systems are huge greenhouse gas emitters.
Consequently, we must act intelligently to improve them and increase our odds of collectively limiting their negative impact on what’s unfolding:
Some of the ways we’re helping:
The signal is loud and clear. Even the United Nations starkly described the findings of a recent report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change as “code red for humanity.”
If this warning wasn’t enough, the UN said following the 27th Conference of the Parties (COP27) that “countries have failed to decisively move away from fossil fuels” and there’s an “urgent need for deep, rapid and sustained reductions in global greenhouse gas emissions to limit global warming to 1.5°C.”
Staying within the 1.5 degrees Celsius warming threshold aspired to in the Paris Agreement is about more than having ambitious targets like reducing global GHG emissions by 45% by 2030 and reaching net zero by 2050. It’s also about how we’ll get there.
We must be smart in how we design and deploy infrastructure systems, services, and assets. We need informed decision makers and policymakers, sound strategies, effective execution, accountability, and practical, evidence-based pathways.
CPCS knows how to help clients develop solutions to achieve more sustainable transportation and energy systems.
Nations aren’t decarbonizing the global transport sector fast enough. It’s urgent.
Governments face pressure to act now. Many private actors are committed to net zero. Citizens want accountability and more stringent measures to reduce the environmental damages caused by transportation, including greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution.
Transport decarbonization isn’t easy. Still, organizations globally must:
CPCS helps clients with questions such as:
Electricity generation accounts for about 25% of global greenhouse gas emissions.
CPCS advises clients across the global power sector in the following areas:
Use of renewable energies is still low in many emerging markets
This is largely due to the big upfront costs, lack of institutional capacity at the government level, lack of an environment enabling private sector participation and lack of appropriate legal and regulatory frameworks.
However, provided that an adequate business environment is in place, private investors can actively contribute to renewable energy development, bringing the required financing and know-how.
CPCS helps clients with questions such as:
Matching climate finance with investment opportunities is a global challenge of unprecedented scale, which could make or break the world’s transition towards sustainable energy and transportation.
There is a pressing need to deploy more climate finance from global and regional financiers to fund climate-positive projects. Likewise, there is no scarcity in pledges or commitments to deliver climate finance.
The key to unlocking these resources is two-fold: First, to identify a robust pipeline of bankable and credible climate projects; Second, to design optimal financing structures that strategically combine public and private capital.
The opportunity for success lies in understanding the distinctive mandates and risk appetite of various climate finance providers — be it multilateral development banks, bilateral climate funds or private fund managers – which all want their finance to deliver a return, financially and for the climate, albeit to a varying extent.
In turn, governments, infrastructure project developers, and stakeholders need support to navigate the vast climate finance architecture at the national, regional, and international levels, which often come with rigorous and different gatekeeping processes.
Climate finance needs are in the trillions of dollars to:
CPCS helps clients with questions such as:
CPCS advocates for climate action and sustainable infrastructure development in all our operations. It’s why our firm’s carbon footprint is zero and will remain so moving forward. We are committed to reducing and cutting greenhouse gas emissions as well as investing in high-quality carbon offsets. As a firm and advisors to infrastructure leaders, our focus is creating environmental and social value through our activities and reducing our operating impacts.