Climate Innovation Project
Build Resilience. Create Value. Shape the Future.
Climate change isn't just a challenge—it's an opportunity for visionary transformation. Organizations that proactively adapt don't just mitigate risks; they discover new efficiencies, unlock revenue streams, and position themselves as leaders in an evolving marketplace.
At Climate Innovation Project, our mission is simple: to build a nature positive future.
We accelerate environmental solutions that create lasting positive impact.
The Opportunity
Today's climate innovators have significant potential to create positive change but face barriers that slow their path to impact:
The innovation funding gap between promising research and commercial viability
Traditional models that fail to account for ecological impacts
Limited capacity to envision and design for alternative futures
Siloed approaches that prevent cross-discipline collaboration
Dominant narratives and worldviews that imply sustainability is too expensive, when the alternative is going to be far more costly
Our Approach
Climate Innovation Project catalyzes transformative climate action through a methodology built on decades of experience.
Connect the Dots: We identify synergies between emerging solutions and implementation contexts to create powerful design opportunities.
Design for Impact: Our human and nature-centered design approach ensures solutions address real-world needs while maximizing environmental benefits across systems and scales.
Build Capacity: We strengthen organizations through strategic alignment, design thinking, and capability development—turning climate ambition into actionable results and great outcomes.
By bridging vision with execution, we accelerate the adoption of climate innovation which often results in positive financial implications.
Cross-Sector Expertise
Our design methodologies and frameworks are adaptable across sectors, allowing us to effectively serve:
Nonprofits and Foundations
Businesses
Government Agencies
Communities and Organizations
This cross-sector approach enables us to apply design expertise that addresses complex challenges while creating unique solutions tailored to specific contexts and needs.
We can also help organizations align their design strategies with the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), providing a framework for holistic impact that addresses climate action while supporting broader social and economic objectives. By mapping initiatives to specific SDGs, we ensure that environmental efforts contribute to global priorities while creating measurable outcomes for stakeholders.
We Redesign Services & Systems
We apply advanced tools and design methodologies to transform how organizations deliver value while minimizing ecological impact. Our human-centered, nature-positive, systems-oriented design approach ensures that services and operations are redesigned from the ground up to embody regenerative principles, creating seamless experiences that build on organizational strengths, and deliver benefits to end users and natural systems.
We Apply Future Studies Methodologies
We utilize strategic foresight and futures thinking to help organizations navigate uncertainty and design for preferred environmental futures. Through scenario planning, horizon scanning, and backcasting exercises, we enable partners to anticipate emerging trends, prepare for multiple possibilities, and take proactive steps toward a nature-positive world.
Our Services
Nature Impact & Strategy
Nature Positive Strategy: Develop approaches that recognize natural capital and generate regenerative outcomes
Uncover circular revenue streams
SDG Integration: Map your initiatives to the UN Sustainable Development Goals and develop strategies that advance multiple SDGs simultaneously
Nature Footprint Analysis: Comprehensively assess your organization's impact on natural systems
Transformation & Capacity Building
Ecosystem Transformation: Create innovative solutions for ecosystems and value chains under pressure
Sustainability Capacity Building: Equip your teams with the knowledge and frameworks to establish and implement meaningful sustainability targets
Implement SDGs
Develop resilient future foresight
Create climate mindset shifts
Build and refine Net Zero Strategies for ecosystems in flux
Workshops, Alignment, Design Strategy
Design Facilitation: Craft processes that align diverse perspectives with design solutions
Systems-Level Design: Create holistic design frameworks and processes that address complex challenges
Community-Centered Design: Develop inclusive processes that elevate local voices in environmental solutions
Problem space research for deep understanding and systems level solutions
Envision Nature Positive Transformations
Climate-Smart Food Systems
Climatarian Food Strategy: Develop food policies and practices that reduce environmental impact while enhancing value
Nature Positive Food Systems: Enabling global food system transformation, 1 plate, 1 producer, 1 retailer, 1 distributor at a time
Menu Engineering that optimizes for reduced emissions and waste
Supply Chain Resilience assessments and improvements
Employee Training that drives behavior change and cultural transformation
Ready to Transform?
The climate challenge presents unprecedented opportunities for organizations willing to innovate.
We unite changemakers and thought leaders across disciplines to co-create climate innovations and drive systemic change, accelerating the transition to a nature-positive future where both people and planet thrive. Let's turn climate action into risk reduction and freedom from climate-related uncertainty.