Sustainability
JBE’s sustainability experts are adept at applying technical concepts and assessment methods strategically and efficiently to provide valuable insights and actionable outcomes on every project. Our team of innovative thinkers specialize in corporate and product-level LCAs, footprinting, and circularity assessments, as well as holistic sustainability strategy development, benchmarking, target setting, stakeholder engagement, and messaging.
Sustainability Services
Assessment
Determine life cycle environmental impacts of your company, facilities, products, and services, measure circularity performance of your company and product offerings, and identify and implement impact reductions that add business value.
Strategy
Translate your sustainability goals and aspirations into company culture and institutionalize governance of a sustainability program. JBE’s analytical and data-driven approach to sustainability allows us to ground strategy setting and decision-making in feasibility.
Reporting and Communication
Create impactful and robust messaging and reporting grounded in science and in accordance with evolving regulations and programs. The results of LCA studies can be complex and difficult to translate into actionable outcomes.
Customized Environmental Performance Tools
Examine the effect of design scenarios involving simultaneous impact reduction strategies. JBE team members have developed various life cycle-based software tools, including custom-built and user-friendly Excel models, to assist clients with “what-if” analyses as they explore various avenues for life cycle impact reduction.
Strategy
Sustainability strategy, goal setting, and planning
Effective engagement across business units
Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats (SWOT) analysis
Materiality assessments
LCA/LCM
Scope 1, 2, and 3 inventories
LCA, PCR, EDPs, and validation
Carbon and water footprints
Plastic footprints
Supply chain engagement
Custom build tools for corporate functions, R&D, procurement, consumer insights, etc.
Baselining and Benchmarking
ESG
Energy studies
Product LCA comparisons
Carbon and water inventories
Marketing, consumer engagement, outreach
Sustainability practices inventories and surveys
Water, Waste, and Circularity
Circular economy goal setting and metrics
Material circularity indicator
Waste management plans and reduction strategies
Water risk assessment, use reduction and recycling strategies
Quantifying recycled content and recyclability
Product Transparency
Product Category Rules (PCRs)
Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs)
Health Product Declarations (HPDs), Declare Labels, and Cradle-to-Cradle assessments
Reporting and Communicating
Sustainability reports
Marketing campaigns and claims
Consumer education and outreach
ESG inventory frameworks and engagement
B2B engagement
CDP
Gigaton
Industry group engagement