Find Your Place in the Carbon Market
from $8,800 CAD
Carbon Offsetting is complex — not complicated.
Affirmative will help you to understand your motivations for strategic offset use and then get clear on the nuances. From compliance to voluntary, nature-based to tech-based, avoidances to removals, compensation to contributions, residual emissions, and beyond value chain mitigation. Where do you fit into the ecosystem of offset developers, brokers, or retailers? Knowing the answers to these questions will help you to choose quality offsets that meet your needs. Let’s find a strategic approach that works for you.
Do you know how to use offsets to your advantage?
Choose Quality Offsets
from $14,400 CAD
Let’s take the risk out of your carbon offset use.
Once you’ve determined how and where you want to apply your offsets, Affirmative will help you to decrease the reputational risk of entering carbon marketplaces. Together, we’ll identify, prioritize, and evaluate the offset characteristics that align to (and elevate) both your ESG strategy and your corporate growth strategy. We’ll help you to understand which projects are right for you and how to get the most bang for your buck by teaching you to ask the right questions. That way, you can communicate your offset use in a way that your customers will understand and trust.
Are you using offsets to make a difference?
Carbon Contracts & Costs
From $12,600 CAD
Know how you are paying, and what you are paying for.
There are many different ways to procure carbon credits. Will you hold them, retire them, or trade them? Are you looking for spot purchases, a forward contract, an offtake agreement, or a pre-issuance investment? Affirmative will help you to understand the benefits, the risks, and the timing of the varying procurement strategies. We’ll take a look at all of the factors that affect unit pricing to ensure you are taking an approach that suits your needs.
How will you structure your offset use?
Executive Primer
From $6,200 CAD
Affirmative will help your leaders understand carbon markets — from market trends and leading practices to risks and opportunities. We’ll review the market landscape, the players, project types, strategic uses, and supply/demand factors. We’ll outline how greater scrutiny, trust, transparency, and confidence are created and we’ll answer all of your questions to make sure that your team is allocated the appropriate resources to mitigate emissions.
Market Instrument Governance
From $16,800 CAD
There are many ways to interact with carbon markets — whether you want to optimize your compliance cap-and-trade obligations, decrease carbon taxation, or use internal carbon pricing to incentivize low-emission projects. Affirmative will help you to understand when to use RECs, PPs, VPPAs or to enter into the voluntary carbon market. Together, we’ll establish your corporate accountability and identify triggers for you to enter the market.
Internal Carbon Pricing
Pricing TBD
Initiate a change toward climate-friendly behaviour — Affirmative will help you to identify the appropriate method of pricing your emissions. As regulations change and international tariffs are applied, the profitability of your products, services, and projects will be affected. Estimate the impact of future financial risks and incentivize your low-emissions projects by using a shadow price, implicit pricing, or an internal fee.
Climate Finance
Pricing TBD
Access capital that supports mitigation and adaptation actions — there are public, private, and alternative investment opportunities for projects that specifically address climate change. Whether you are seeking grants, private equity, concessional loans or other incentives, Affirmative will help you to identify and quantify your climate risks and disclosures to ensure transparency and trust for lenders.
Financed Emissions
Pricing TBD
Consider how your dollar enables emissions — all of the money you spend on upstream products and services creates an impact that you can control. Let’s take a look at your supplier’s footprint and see if we can decrease your value chain impacts. Ensure your dollar isn’t financing high-emission practices. We’ll examine your partnerships, your employee savings plans, your business travel & employee commuting, and where we can’t make immediate improvements, Affirmative will help you create a sound transition strategy.
Transition planning
From $14,600 CAD
Global net zero commitments require clearly articulated plans for transitioning to a low-carbon future. Affirmative will ensure that you create detailed and high-quality plans so your customers can make better-informed decisions about your products. Together, we’ll develop a creative strategic approach, and ensure you are communicating the path to your goals and targets.
How will you activate net zero solutions?
Emissions Reductions
From $8,600 CAD
Let’s take a look at your carbon footprint and identify the most cost-effective abatement opportunities. From your procurement and supply chain emissions to your energy usage and the long-term effects of your products; find out how you can decrease your climate impact throughout the lifecycle of your product. Affirmative will empower your team with operational solutions that decrease your emissions and create a more sustainable product.
Do you know where to make the cuts?
Sustainability Analysis
From $899 CAD
Affirmative’s Sustainability Analysis, outlines your current alignment with the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s). The Analysis provides a snapshot of your corporate sustainability programming and will provide insight into the positive and negative economic, social and environmental impacts of your company.
Are you looking for non-financial success metrics?
Monthly Account Plan
$3600 CAD monthly
Set up & accomplish monthly goals. Affirmative Account Mangers will help you strategize, train your staff and coach you through your process. You can take that as far as you like based on your needs and resources! Affirmative will facilitate an initial meeting, an employee webinar, a mid-month progress check and an end-of-month review loop.
Do you have goals that are yet to be accomplished?
Annual Account Plans
From $40,800 CAD /year (billed quarterly)
Designed to empower your team’s comprehensive annual sustainability strategy. Affirmative Account Plans will guide you through an annual reporting cycle. From employee training & scheduling to timely check-ins and ensuring you have the resources you need. Affirmative is there for you from start to finish and will get you ready to make next year’s report even better.
Are you ready to start an annual tracking & reporting cycle?
Strategic Review: Outside-In
From $2600 CAD
Third-party review for your sustainability programming. Affirmative’s Outside-In Approach to Sustainability Strategy evaluates your activities & processes; based upon external interpretation. Affirmative will review the outward-facing assets describing your company’s approach to decreasing environmental footprint, increasing social impacts and creating economic longevity.
Do you know what you don’t know?
Strategic Review: Inside-Out
From $6300 CAD
Provides an evaluation of your team’s strategy & execution. Affirmative’s Inside-Out Approach to Sustainability Strategy evaluates your activities & processes; based upon an internal feedback & review loop. Together we’ll celebrate successes, identify pain points, alleviate barriers, allocate positive moment and structure your workflows. Affirmative will work with your team to make your approach more efficient.
Is your product as sustainable as it could be?
Team Startup Package
From $15,600 CAD
Affirmative will start your team off with the tools & training they need to develop a culture of sustainability. We will provide a Summary Sustainability Analysis, facilitate hiring & target setting, establish committees and train your Sustainability Team.
Do you have people in place to manage your sustainability strategy?
Workshops & Training
From $2850 CAD
Train your team with custom webinars and tailored presentations. Your company is successful because you’ve created a great product and you’ve hired great people - now level up with some extra know-how!
Do you have a topic you want to learn more about?
