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What We Do

Trillions of dollars in investment will be required to transition the global economy to net zero emissions and avert a climate catastrophe.

Breakthrough decarbonization solutions are required for both energy transition and industrial decarbonization.

We help companies with the creation of new climate finance products, alignment of investment and product portfolios with the transition, and access to the much-needed financing for making the transition.

Collaborations

Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ)

As the knowledge partner to the GFANZ Secretariat, we supported the publication of five major reports that help financial institutions translate their net zero pledges into actionable, near-term, and science-based transition plans.

World Economic Forum

We are collaborating with the World Economic Forum on the Financing the Transition to a Net Zero Future (FTT) initiative, a multi stakeholder strategy to accelerate financing towards innovative climate solutions for the key hard-to-abate sectors.

First Movers Coalition (FMC)

We are supporting the FMC Finance Pillar. The FMC is a global initiative harnessing the purchasing power of companies to decarbonize seven hard-to-abate industrial sectors that currently account for 30% of global emissions.

Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi)

Oliver Wyman is supporting the SBTi to develop the first science-based global standard for net-zero targets in the financial sector. Our support ranges from facilitating the public consultations to assisting with draft meta-criteria for metrics and methods used to set targets.

What We Think

Get The Money Moving To Drive The Climate Transition

The 2024 CDP report examines the slow transition by European companies to meet net-zero goals and green business models, focusing on steel, utilities and auto.

SEC'S NEW CLIMATE DISCLOSURE RULE — WHY CFOS MUST ACT NOW

The new SEC rule increases CFO workloads, integrating sustainability efforts. As a result, climate reports will become like second financial statements.

Building Better Metrics To Measure Transition Finance

We uncover how banks are currently measuring their climate impact and explore three approaches they can take to best report their Transition Finance efforts.

POLICY ACTION FOR CLIMATE FINANCE AND MARKET RESPONSES

This report highlights public-sector investments in sustainable aviation fuel and clean hydrogen in the US, Europe, and the UK.

Venture Capital Funding For Clean Energy Startups Cools

In our second Clean Energy Startups Radar, we explore global VC and Chinese investment, the impact of AI, and the growth of hydrogen and battery storage.

FINANCING THE NATURE-POSITIVE TRANSITION

Financial institutions can build on their efforts towards the net-zero transition to take action on nature now.

Breakthroughs

Setting A Commercially Focused Net Zero Strategy

We helped Goldman Sachs, a leading universal bank, conduct a preliminary baseline emissions analysis for their exposure and embed their net zero commitment in their commercial and client activities.

Developing A Customer Climate Decisioning Framework

We helped a leading UK bank develop a Customer Climate Decisioning framework, supporting measurements of customer climate transition and customer climate risk, alongside balance sheet steering mechanisms.

Identifying Climate Commercial Opportunities

We are helping a North American global systemically important bank (G-SIB) to identify and seize climate commercial opportunities and develop an array of products and partnerships that contribute to the decarbonization of high-emitting sectors.

Setting A Commercially Focused Net Zero Strategy

We helped Goldman Sachs, a leading universal bank, conduct a preliminary baseline emissions analysis for their exposure and embed their net zero commitment in their commercial and client activities.

Developing A Customer Climate Decisioning Framework

Identifying Climate Commercial Opportunities