Services
In addition to initiating its own development projects and undertaking contract research, The Sustainability LaboratoriesSM offers training and consulting services to businesses communities, development agencies and governments, assisting them in assessing, planning and implementing their sustainable development initiatives.
The services provided by The Sustainability LaboratoriesSM focus on four key areas: Strategy, Technology, Financing, and Education. Service offerings include:
- Strategy Development: Supporting leaders, in both private and public sectors, in developing proactive, innovative strategies for sustainability practices and providing strategic input to shaping public policy.
- Technology Development: Stimulating development of breakthrough sustainability enhancing technologies, facilitating the transfer of pioneering technologies and assisting in designing and realizing prototype applications of appropriate sustainability technologies on the ground.
- Financing: Providing assistance in sourcing appropriate financing for sustainability related projects, assisting in tailoring financial instruments for realizing specific sustainable development goals, and helping stimulate investments in sustainability-centered ventures.
- Education: Engaging in a variety of educational activities including developing and delivering training programs for leaders in business and government, developing and delivering special programs for schools at all levels, and creating and distibuting sustainability-related materials for public information.
A comprehensive transition to sustainability practices requires the right mix of thorough literacy, the appropriate technology, a suitable strategy, and a financial framework which recognizes sustainability-related premiums.
The Sustainability LaboratoriesSM will focus its work on producing breakthrough innovations in each of these four key areas, seeking to ensure effective synergies between them, in order to amplify the potential for demonstrating exceptional results.
