Our Aspiration
Our Aspiration
- We will speak with every one of our clients about their carbon goals and science-based targets.
- We will partner with our clients on their decarbonization journeys.
Taking action to reverse the course of climate change is more important now than ever. We recognize our responsibility to lead in this carbon transition, and we are committed to changing mindsets, finding solutions and inspiring action.
We have built a diverse team to reverse the climate crisis. Along with our own Bain experts, we have created a partnership ecosystem made up of gold-standard organizations including: CDP, Copenhagen Economics, EcoVadis, Jupiter, Persefoni, SYSTEMIQ, and Sylvera. This ecosystem brings best-in-class solutions to holistically speed the carbon transition and translate decarbonization efforts into realized value.
Our Progress
Completed climate projects in the past 5 years
Invested in pro bono work with leading environment nonprofits since 2015
Our Client Work
Cutting carbon with innovative crop management techniques
Farmers in Northwest India burn 12 million tons of crop residue each year to clear their fields for their next planting cycle. The effect on the environment is destructive: harmful greenhouse gases rise into the atmosphere, smoke pollutes the air, and water stress increases in regions already prone to drought. As a result, the region's 300 million inhabitants face respiratory issues and other serious health hazards.
Bain and The Nature Conservancy teamed up to find an innovative solution. Drawing from global best practices in regenerative agriculture and large-scale behavior change, we built a program to transition 250,000+ farmers to no-burn crop residue management techniques over three years. This approach will mitigate 6 million metric tons of CO2 and save 500 billion liters of water.
Helping financial institutions with the net-zero transition
The Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTi) guides corporations to set science-based emissions reduction targets that align with the Paris Agreement’s goal of limiting global warming to 1.5oC and thereby avoiding the most catastrophic effects of climate change. Bain partnered with SBTi to create publicly available training resources for financial institutions interested in setting 5-10 year science-based targets for emission reductions. The resources distill 170 pages of technical guidance into a compact, user-friendly training that is uniquely tailored to financial institutions – covering topics from target setting to disclosures to change management. Bain is also providing ongoing support to SBTi as it drafts a new net zero standard for financial institutions to guide them in setting longer term emission reduction targets.
Cutting carbon with innovative crop management techniques
Farmers in Northwest India burn 12 million tons of crop residue each year to clear their fields for their next planting cycle. The effect on the environment is destructive: harmful greenhouse gases rise into the atmosphere, smoke pollutes the air, and water stress increases in regions already prone to drought. As a result, the region's 300 million inhabitants face respiratory issues and other serious health hazards.
Bain and The Nature Conservancy teamed up to find an innovative solution. Drawing from global best practices in regenerative agriculture and large-scale behavior change, we built a program to transition 250,000+ farmers to no-burn crop residue management techniques over three years. This approach will mitigate 6 million metric tons of CO2 and save 500 billion liters of water.
Helping financial institutions with the net-zero transition
The Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTi) guides corporations to set science-based emissions reduction targets that align with the Paris Agreement’s goal of limiting global warming to 1.5oC and thereby avoiding the most catastrophic effects of climate change. Bain partnered with SBTi to create publicly available training resources for financial institutions interested in setting 5-10 year science-based targets for emission reductions. The resources distill 170 pages of technical guidance into a compact, user-friendly training that is uniquely tailored to financial institutions – covering topics from target setting to disclosures to change management. Bain is also providing ongoing support to SBTi as it drafts a new net zero standard for financial institutions to guide them in setting longer term emission reduction targets.