Strategy
Sustainability is no longer a department. It has to sit inside how an organisation plans, invests and reports, across every division. We help build that into the strategy itself, rather than bolting it on afterwards.
Climate and sustainability consulting · London, since 2014
Driving sustainability.
Building resilience. Together.
Sustainable Futures works with governments, infrastructure operators and corporate clients on the strategy, risk assessment and reporting that climate change now demands of every sector.
What we do
Risk
Understanding where climate risk sits, physically and financially, is the easier half of the problem. The harder half is getting an organisation to act on it before the damage is done. We do both: the analysis, and the case for taking it seriously.
Communication
You can only communicate sustainability work once you are actually doing it. We help organisations measure what they are doing, report it honestly, and explain it to the people who need to understand it: regulators, investors, employees, the public.
How we work
Working with us is a journey of explore, discover and grow, both for the organisation and for the people inside it. We do not arrive with a team of consultants and a set of answers.
Explore
We start by understanding the pain points properly: the history of the problem, who holds it, and what has already been tried.
Discover
We work with what is already there, the people, the data, the internal knowledge, and reframe the problem so a real solution becomes visible.
Grow
We build the strategy and the internal capability to carry it forward, so the work outlasts our involvement.
We have been trusted with some of our clients' most important sustainability assignments and change initiatives, across public and private sectors, for over a decade.
Who we are
Yiannis Chrysostomidis
Director
Yiannis is a director of Sustainable Futures, which he founded in London in 2014. He brings 20 years of experience in sustainability strategy, climate risk and resilience, having worked with governments, multilateral institutions and private clients including Network Rail, Fraport, the UK FCDO and several Fortune 500 and FTSE 100 companies. Yiannis leads on client relationships and strategic direction, working closely with Maia and the wider team on delivery.
Maia Rossi
Associate Director
Maia is an associate director with Sustainable Futures, with extensive technical expertise and an entrepreneurial background. She leads our work on ESG, stakeholder engagement, reporting and climate risk, and is a certified 14001 and 9001 auditor and a specialist in IFC Performance Standards.
Our experience
A selection of the work we have done, and the work our team has been involved with over the years, for governments, infrastructure operators and corporate clients.
Strategy
Low-carbon transition for the extractives sector
What does the transition to a low-carbon, resilient world mean for extractives-led economies in developing markets? We worked with the Extractives Hub to set out the implications and the strategic options.
Climate adaptation strategy for Greece
We advised Greece's then Minister of Environment, Energy and Climate Change, Dr Yannis Maniatis, and developed a strategy paper on national climate risk and adaptation in the agriculture sector.
Sustainability strategy and communications
We worked with the Entrepreneurs Organization to build a sustainability strategy with and for its members, and to find ways of bringing members into the sustainability agenda rather than simply reporting at them.
Risk and resilience
Railway resilience
We worked with Network Rail, owner and infrastructure manager of most of the rail network in England, Scotland and Wales, to develop a nationwide strategy and long-term vision for a climate-resilient railway.
Airport resilience
We carried out a climate risk review of 14 airports for Fraport, Germany's largest airport operator, identifying key risks and indicative adaptation costs for inclusion in their capex and revenue planning.
Road resilience, Somaliland and Ethiopia
Commissioned by the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, we reviewed the systemic climate risks facing the Berbera corridor, the backbone road connecting Berbera to mainland Ethiopia, and the communities it serves.
Anglo American and G4S
Before founding Sustainable Futures, our team was involved in a three-year climate and sustainability risk transformation programme at Anglo American, and a multi-year strategy and net-zero programme for G4S that delivered over 20 per cent greenhouse gas reductions in its first three years.
Reporting and communication
Sustainability reporting for a FTSE 100 company
We helped a FTSE 100 organisation develop a longer-term environmental and climate strategy, prepare its carbon footprint, and build the data tools to collect and report on its sustainability metrics.
KPIs and reporting framework
We helped Network Rail build a weather resilience and climate adaptation reporting framework, and the means to track and report against it.
Sustainability reporting, Fortune 500
We have supported Newell Brands' sustainability programme over several years, including life cycle assessments and the auditing and verification of sustainability KPIs.
BP TargetNeutral
Before founding Sustainable Futures, our team supported BP's flagship sustainability programme TargetNeutral, including its sponsorship of transport for the London 2012 Olympics.
Get in touch
If you are working through a climate or sustainability challenge and would value an outside view, we would like to hear from you.
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