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Client Case Studies

County Sustainability Reporting Journey

A county in California was seeking to create organizational sustainability across its departments. ADEC ESG Solutions seamlessly worked with twenty County departments, facilitating interviews to better understand each department’s vision, goals, and targets.

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Communications Company Spotlights Creativity on Its Sustainability Journey

Our client is a multinational communications company that focuses on creativity to build a better, more sustainable future. By 2020, the company’s ESG team felt that its program had reached a stage at which it would benefit greatly from engaging a third party to maximize performance.

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Sustainability Workshops Give Pharmaceutical Company a Head Start on Carbon Neutrality

ADEC ESG Solutions partnered with this pharmaceutical company to engage executive management on sustainability topics. The goal was to help put the company in a better position to strategize around reaching its 2030 carbon neutrality goal—by assembling a group of changemakers who could bring the company’s ESG ambitions to life.

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Schnitzer Crushes Sustainability Goals

Sustainability is an integral part of every sector—and few understand this better than the recycling industry. Portland, Oregon-based metals recycling and manufacturing company Schnitzer Steel Industries puts sustainability at the core of its business, aiming to create value and bring a positive impact to the communities it serves.

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Specialty Chemicals Company Leads on ESG Disclosure, SBTs, Policy Development, and More

ADEC ESG has had the privilege of working with our client since 2015. Over the course of our partnership, we have supported the company on a wide range of ESG programs, including reporting and disclosure, forest and water risk assessments, policy development, science-based targets, and more.

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Energy Company Aligns Transparency and Strategic Sustainability for a Fossil-Free Future

Our client enlisted ADEC ESG Solutions for support in developing a response to CDP’s Climate Change questionnaire, ensuring their reporting accurately reflected the company’s growing emphasis on ESG values and mounting success in achieving its ESG goals.

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Macerich Sets an Industry Standard for Sustainability

California-based real estate investment trust company, Macerich, is a leading owner, operator, and developer of retail and mixed-use real estate. An industry leader in sustainability, Macerich prioritizes its ambitious environmental goals and strong dedication to climate action and carbon neutrality.

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Financial Services Company Paves the Way to a Transparent and Sustainable Future

In 2015, a leading financial services company was in need of comprehensive professional and software services to enhance its sustainability management program. It was searching for a reputable firm to provide both environmental data management services and subject-matter expertise to support its sustainability tracking and reporting.

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Lyft’s GHG Inventory Achieves Positive Verification from Cameron-Cole

For the past three years, Cameron-Cole, an ADEC Innovation, was retained by Lyft to perform an independent verification of its GHG Emissions Inventory for all Scope 1, 2, and 3 emission sources.

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ARKRAY USA Leaps Forward with the CDP Questionnaire

Located in Minneapolis, ARKRAY’s U.S.-based team has strategic ESG ambitions. In late 2020, they took aim at CDP’s Climate Change questionnaire covering emissions and energy data, target setting, supply chain engagement, and more.

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Tessy Plastics Demonstrates Transformative Sustainability Through Disclosure

Within a few years, what started off as a handful of on-demand consulting hours grew to include a wider range of services. In 2020, when a new sustainability team stepped in at Tessy, the scope of our work with them expanded to assist with the transition and ensure that the new team had everything they needed to succeed.

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URW Streamlines Data Management and Boosts Sustainability Ratings

ADEC ESG Solutions worked hand-in-hand with URW staff to develop structured responses to CDP, GRESB, and FTSE4Good, resulting in increased scores across the board. These efforts culminated in an assessment by the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ASCI) in 2016, designating the company at the “Leading” level for ESG reporters.

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MAS Holdings Improves Chemical Information Management Efficiency with CleanChain

CleanChain is a secure, central online platform for managing chemical inventory, delivery, testing and discharge data, and monitoring compliance against multiple chemical standards and Manufacturers Restricted Substances Lists (MRSLs).

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Navistar Builds a Foundation for the Future with GHG Emissions Management

ADEC Innovations guided Navistar in the development of two GHG inventories, for 2016 and 2017. Navistar is continuing to work with ADEC Innovations to recreate historic inventories using GHG data dating back to Navistar’s 2008 baseline.

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California State Energy Efficiency Appliance Rebate Program

To support California’s Cash for Appliance Rebate Program, CEC chose ADEC as its partner for end-to-end rebate administration services, including project management, strategic sourcing, and document management services.

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SCAG Geared Up for a Greener and More Sustainable Region

SCAG relied on FirstCarbon Solutions, now known as ADEC Innovations, to identify and gather all of the data and information needed from a variety of sources, including the Department of Energy (DOE), Energy Information Administration (EIA), the California Energy Commission (CEC), and the six counties and 190 cities that SCAG represents.

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ADEC Helps Real Estate Services Firm Implement Sustainable Management System

ADEC analyzed natural gas, electricity, water and waste, and calculated carbon emissions for the company’s 60 different locations across the United States. Although each site had different emissions factors, we correctly calculated each one.

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CDP Improves Scoring Efficiency with BPO Expertise

In 2011, CDP partnered with ADEC Innovations to develop the processes necessary to ensure that together we provided consistency in applying the proper methodology in the quality of the scoring.

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SaaS/Cloud Computing Firm Benefits from ADEC ESG Solutions Utility Management Solution

ADEC ESG Solutions conducted numerous consultations with the client’s San Francisco-based sustainability team to determine the scope of the project and the best plan to capture and analyze the GHG data.

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Cavium, Inc. Receives Sustainability Makeover

Without the internal resources, Cavium, Inc. turned to ADEC to help respond to CDP. Their initial goal was to achieve a minimum disclosure score of 50, and with ADEC’s assistance, Cavium, Inc. scored well beyond expectations with a score in the 80s. Following that, Cavium, Inc. and ADEC are working on setting targets to reduce energy, carbon, water, and waste, and with anticipated savings of up to $50,000 through the implementation of a full sustainable management system.

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Virgin Atlantic Receives Feedback to Improve CDP Scores

From 2011 to 2019, ADEC Innovations operated under close partnership with CDP as both a scoring partner and Gold level consultancy partner, giving our consultants unique expertise and insight into CDP’s methodology.

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Baystate Health

Baystate Health engaged FirstCarbon Solutions, now known as ADEC Innovations, to prepare a comprehensive baseline GHG inventory for calendar year 2009 encompassing all of Baystate Health’s locations based on sound principles and leading protocols.

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M.E. Heuck Takes the Carbon Out of Cookware

Heuck chose FirstCarbon Solutions, now known as ADEC Innovations, to provide this needed end-to-end solution because of ADEC’s in-house expertise in LCA and data processing capabilities.

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