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● BRAE · strategy and innovation studio for climate and nature

Strategy, innovation and solutions for climate and nature.

We help organisations turn climate and nature ambition into decisions and delivery. We advise, convene, build capability and bring the evidence, together or one at a time.

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01 · What we do

Four ways we help you meet your climate and nature targets.

Advisory, training, data and convening. Use one, or all four as one system.

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Advisory
Finding a way through the hardest problems.
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Convening
Collective intelligence, put to work.
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03
Training & Capability
Training people actually want to do.
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Data & Insights
From 30,000 feet to 30 centimetres.
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Built on our own products: Reverberate (data & model), Wayfinder (training) and Need to Know (procurement AI).

Trusted across the public, private and third sectors

HSBCLaudes FoundationStandard CharteredThe Climate PledgeKyndrylWBCSDHightowerPwCULIGeotabOak View GroupITPNThe Vomela CompaniesTradelink TransportBranchPatternUN Global CompactIIGCCAmbevEvri GroupBnodeERMGeneration InvestmentGreen Finance InstituteHBX GroupCRREMJetBlue AirwaysValtecheuNetworksContentsquareo9 SolutionsStora Enso
02 · The system

How it works together.

Real outcomes: transition plans · sector guidance · investment decisions · lower emissions

Convening gets it agreed. The right people in one room, and the work held between meetings.

Advisory finds the route. We work where the challenge sits, from whole sectors to single services, and design solutions that get delivered.

Training builds the judgement to act. Teams play through real decisions before they make them.

Data shows where to act. Sector to site, with every number sourced.

03 · Selected work

Selected work.

Named work across advisory, data and convening.

Sector2026–ongoing
Affordable housing business case
ULI Europe · C Change for Housing

Redefining the business case for decarbonised affordable housing, with the sector.

Sector2025–2026
Embodied carbon pathways
Laudes Foundation

Advising on programme design for a shared embodied carbon reference for real estate.

Sector2024–2025
Public-private collaboration model
WBCSD · CO_LAB

Researching and designing how business, government and finance can work together.

Company2023
Portfolio-wide sustainability
Global real estate manager

Taking a sustainability ambition from showcase buildings to the whole portfolio.

Company2023–2024
Sustainable procurement strategy
Global bank

Turning procurement targets into decisions category teams could act on.

Company2025–2026
Supplier carbon data
Global bank

Finding the supplier data that moves carbon accounting beyond spend-based estimates.

Dialogue2025–2026
Transition plan policy dialogues
ITPN

Designing and hosting the annual Dialogue for transition plan policymakers.

Coalition2024–ongoing
Real estate transition planning
Laudes Foundation

Running the coalition behind the first transition planning guidance for European real estate.

Community of practice2023–2028
Finance for a decarbonised built environment
Laudes Foundation · FIBE

Building a community of practice to shift finance towards decarbonised buildings.

04 · Why BRAE

Deliberately different.

Learn by playing.

Exploratory learning through play, not lecturing. Simulations and games that make hard material stick.

One connected picture.

Climate and nature intelligence in one place, viewable from sector down to site, with every number sourced.

Progress over perfect.

We start from what procurement, finance and sustainability teams already know and do well, build on it and get moving. No reinventing everything, no trying to fix it all at once.

Difficult doesn't mean boring.

Energy and craft on hard problems. We challenge the status quo and work in the white space.

05 · Signal
Read Signal →
Signal · Transition12 min read
23 Sept 2026 · Lewis Howard
How to build a climate and nature transition plan

The standards agree a transition plan is a route, not a destination. Here is how to build one: a sequenced, self-funding programme owned across the company.

Signal · Data9 min read
13 Aug 2026 · Lewis Howard
Your 2030 target is hiding in dark data

You will miss your 2030 carbon target not because you cannot decarbonise, but because you cannot measure it. The data exists - it is just dark. Here is the unlock.

Signal · Finance8 min read
7 Aug 2026 · Lewis Howard
The average of everyone else

Spend-based emissions factors apply a sector average to a specific supplier. We tested them against real footprints and found gaps of up to a thousand times.

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Reverberate started as something we built for our own client work. The Studio is where we build what comes next. See what's in the Studio →