Innovate to Remove Obstacles and Enable Positive Impact at Scale
Because the real progress will come when common and practical challenges to resilience and sustainability are overcome.
- Building the business case for more sustainable decisions
- Leveraging technology for greater impact
- Facilitating sustainable investment
Return on Sustainability Investment (ROSI)
Embedding sustainability in business strategy creates financial benefits but these can be intangible and hard to quantify. ALO helps clients make the connection between sustainability and economic benefits by monetizing their returns on sustainability investments.
If you want to learn more about ROSI, check out our ROSI page.
Monetizing the benefits of reducing plastic footprint and decarbonizing operations
For a multinational personal care company, we helped quantify the benefits of the company’s sustainability challenges associated with the reduction of its plastic footprint and decarbonization of the company’s operations. These benefits relate to retained/additional sales, fewer environmental taxes or fees, lower continuity risk, earned media connected to the company’s positive efforts to customers, consumers, and peers/competitors, and an advantage from innovation to incrementally reduce resource consumption.
Monetizing the business impacts of climate change
By evaluating the future changing climate conditions in their supply areas for a beverage company, we helped quantify our client’s annual costs associated with the physical impacts on the main raw ingredient if no additional action is undertaken in response to changing climate. The business risks are related to changes in temperature and rainfall required for the raw ingredient to thrive in specific regions.
Monetizing the benefit of a more sustainable supply chain
For a multinational food company, we helped quantify more than $7 million in annual benefits associated with the organization’s sustainable supply chain practices. These benefits related to increased sales, lower capital costs, avoided cost from improved risk mitigation/management, and earned media connected with the company’s work to improve supplier livelihoods, communities, and reduce relevant environmental impacts.
Remotely assessing impacts from water stewardship initiatives
With our partner 52impact, ALO assessed nearly 400 individual water stewardship projects in Guatemala, Costa Rica, Panama, and Colombia. Using satellite technology, the team measured water stress and vegetation growth since 2015. Anomalies were verified through virtual site visits that included the use of drones. The conclusions are helping shape better project decisions/designs for deploying more effective nature-based solutions.
