Your Climate Strategy Advisor: expert carbon accounting support, included

Navigate an evolving regulatory landscape and plot your journey to net zero with support from our team of GHG Protocol-certified Climate Strategy Advisors. With CSRD timelines in motion and SBTi validation queues growing, expert support from day one is a practical necessity.

  • 100% SBTi validation rate
  • Named GHGP-certified advisor on every account

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What is a Climate Strategy Advisor?

A Climate Strategy Advisor (CSA) is a GHG Protocol-certified expert assigned to your account by name. Unlike generic customer success or on-demand consultancy, your CSA works alongside you across your entire carbon accounting journey, from building your first carbon inventory to SBTi submission and CSRD reporting. Every Normative account includes one.

What your Climate Strategy Advisor does

Your CSA is not a support contact. They are a subject-matter expert who works with you on the substance of your carbon accounting programme. Depending on where you are in your journey, they can:

  • Lead your GHG inventory build from raw data to audit-ready baseline
  • Guide your SBTi submission from target-setting to validator sign-off
  • Support CSRD compliance through materiality analysis and ESRS-aligned reporting

  • Engage your supply chain to improve Scope 3 data quality
  • Help you translate carbon data into board-ready financial metrics

The range of services below defines what your CSA can support you with. Every engagement is scoped to your specific goals – you are not buying a fixed package.

Climate Strategy Services

Access specialized support and consultancy across your sustainability journey. Our team of experts provides targeted assistance from data handling to regulatory compliance and reduction strategies.

Audit+

Get smooth carbon data assurance. We work directly with your auditors, create clear project plans, and explain your data in detail. Our team provides priority support and quick updates throughout the audit process.

CDP

Get expert help with your CDP submission. We complete questionnaires, optimize key KPIs, and work directly in the CDP portal to maximize your score. Our experts guide you through each module to ensure successful submission.

SBTi

Fast-track your SBTi targets with proven experts. We have a 100% success rate in SBTi validation and guide you from start to submission. Our team helps with presentations, workshops, data collection, and commitment letters.

Introduction to CBAM

Equip your business with the essentials needed for CBAM compliance. Our Climate Strategy Advisors will ensure you understand the key phases and how you can stay ahead of deadlines. We’ll outline your CBAM compliance process and requirements during the transitional phase and develop a tailored plan outlining the next steps to prepare your business for CBAM’s rollout.

SBTi SME Track

Secure validated science-based targets that align with the SBTi SME criteria. Our expert team will guide you through the process, from detailing how the specific target-setting requirements apply to your business, to defining your targets and preparing a compliant submission.

Data+

Get flexible support for your data needs, starting from 4 hours. We can help translate files, organize formats, improve your processes, and verify supplier VAT numbers. Our experts adapt to what your business needs.

CSRD

Meet CSRD requirements with expert help. We conduct materiality and gap analyses, collect ESRS-compliant data, and help you create compliant reports. Our consultants guide you through every step to ensure you meet all regulatory requirements.

VSME Reporting Standards

Master the VSME reporting standards with expert guidance. Our Climate Strategy Advisers will help you base your sustainability report on the standards, making it easier for stakeholders to access key information.  

Target setting

Set carbon reduction goals that work for your business and align with science. Using your data and industry knowledge, we help you create ambitious targets and track your progress. Our experts work with you to build a practical plan and timeline to achieve meaningful results.

Reduction

Get expert help to reduce your carbon emissions faster. Our workshops help you identify and prioritize the most effective actions across all scopes. We help you plan resources and track your progress over time.

Internal Carbon Pricing

Translate carbon emissions into financial metrics to enable more informed decisions and drive reductions. Your dedicated Climate Strategy Advisor will guide you through the fundamentals of internal carbon pricing, share best practices from industry leaders and ensure you understand how to implement it in your business.

Climate Investments

Get expert help to select climate investments and carbon removal partners. We share best practices and recommend solutions that match your business needs. Our vetted partners ensure high-quality projects and protect against greenwashing.

Value Chain Engagement

Improve your supplier sustainability with VCE. Our experts help you plan supplier engagement through focused workshops. We help you set goals, identify key stakeholders, and teach suppliers about carbon accounting.

Supplier Data Enrichment

Enrich and increase the accuracy of your scope 3 calculations through supplier-specific data. Our experts will compile GHG inventory data from your selected suppliers, integrate it into the Value Chain Engagement module and deliver a detailed breakdown of supplier emissions data and intensity metrics.

Employee Engagement

Build a sustainability-focused team through expert training. We create workshops, campaigns, and materials to engage your whole organization. Our experts help make environmental action part of your company culture.

Executive Bootcamp

Equip your leaders to drive sustainability success. Our executive bootcamp teaches carbon accounting essentials and practical tools. Help your leadership team make better decisions and guide your organization’s environmental strategy.

Insights

We’ll help you finalize and understand your greenhouse gas (GHG) inventory to build a complete and reliable emissions baseline. From here our experts will outline how this foundation can be a platform for successfully building and executing your sustainability strategy.

Onboarding

Everything you need to know to get started with Normative. We’ll walk you through the platform, relevant boundary of the inventory and provide data collection guidance tailored to your business so that your inventory is accurate, compliant and decision-ready.

Carbon Inventory Managed Services

For teams that need extra support turning raw fragmented data into a complete carbon inventory, Normative can take on the operational burden. We help co-ordinate data collection, clean, structure and upload your data, and manage the process without changing your reporting setup.

Product Carbon Footprint

Get a verified, PACT- and GHGP-aligned product carbon footprint report that delivers transparent, replicable results.

Benchmarking

Understand how your competitors handle carbon emissions and targets. We analyze their data and provide detailed reports on their carbon footprint and sustainability plans. Get expert insights and C-Suite summaries to improve your strategy.

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Expert support for your sustainability journey

Every sustainability journey is unique. That’s why our professional services are designed to adapt to your specific goals. Wherever you are in your sustainability journey, whether you’re refining long-standing initiatives or stepping up your ambitions, our professional services meet you there. Some clients use their Climate Strategy Advisor intensively at the start and step back once the process is embedded. Others maintain close engagement throughout their reporting cycle. The model is yours to define, we adapt to your needs, not the other way around.

As priorities shift, we’ll pivot alongside you, providing expert guidance wherever and whenever it’s needed. And because the market never stands still, our menu of services keeps evolving. So your investment remains future-proof.

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“The insight session was really useful in flagging some things that we wouldn’t have picked up otherwise. Looking into the details of our activity and material data helped us think about how we can improve.”

Isaac Pelham-Chipper Head of Decarbonisation, The Restaurant Group
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Step-by-step

From insights to reductions

Work with a dedicated Climate Strategy Advisor to ensure success in your net-zero journey.

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  • Kick-off: A foundation for success

    • Outline corporate structure & governance
    • Set success metrics
    • Onboard to the platform

  • Calculation: See the carbon in your business

    • Upload data & QA
    • Get a carbon baseline and explore hot-spots
    • See data gaps and make improvements

  • Activation: Use carbon insights to plan and optimize

    • Complete disclosures
    • Set targets
    • Plan reduction efforts
    • Engage your value chain
    • Invest in carbon removal

  • Net zero journey: The roadmap for long-term reduction

    • Continuous support for decarbonization
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Why choose Normative’s carbon expertise?

Normative’s Climate Strategy Advisors accelerate your path to net-zero through their deep expertise and hands-on experience from working with businesses like yours.

1. Proven track record

100% record of successful SBTi submissions

We have submitted SBTi targets on behalf of every client who has engaged us for SBTi support. Zero rejections, just validation.

2. Certified & experienced
GHG Protocol-certified and experienced in industry and regional best practices

Our Climate Strategy Advisors hold GHG Protocol certification and bring direct industry experience, not generic sustainability knowledge. They know your sector’s scope 3 challenges.

3. Dedicated to your success
Motivated to help you understand, report on, and reduce your carbon footprint

Your CSA is measured on your outcomes, not ticket resolution times. They stay with you from onboarding through your first disclosed inventory and beyond.

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Ecosystem partners

Normative partners with consultancies, data specialists, environmental programs, government agencies, and more. Learn more about how our collaborations will take your sustainability program to the next level.
Auditable reporting for CSRD and beyond
Next-generation sustainability programs
Innovations in financial products and investing

FAQs

A Climate Strategy Advisor (CSA) is a GHG Protocol-certified expert assigned to your Normative account. They support you across the full sustainability journey, from data collection and carbon inventory to regulatory disclosure, SBTi target setting, and reduction planning. Every Normative account includes a named CSA.

Yes. Every Normative account includes a named, dedicated Climate Strategy Advisor. This is not an add-on, it is a core part of how Normative works.

Normative has a 100% success rate for SBTi target submissions. Our Climate Strategy Advisors guide clients through the full process, from understanding eligibility and target-setting methodology to preparing the submission and responding to validator queries.

Unlike general customer support, Normative’s Climate Strategy Advisors are subject-matter experts with GHG Protocol certification. They do not just answer product questions, they provide strategic guidance on regulatory compliance, reduction planning, supply chain engagement, and disclosure. Their role is closer to an embedded sustainability consultant than a support function.

Yes. Normative CSAs support CSRD compliance, with a dedicated expert focusing on materiality analysis, gap assessment, ESRS-compliant data collection, and report preparation. They work alongside your team throughout the reporting cycle.

Yes. Normative offers SBTi support for both the standard corporate track and the SME track, with guidance tailored to the specific target-setting criteria that apply to smaller businesses.

Accelerate your sustainability work with
Normative’s carbon expertise

Schedule a consultation to learn how our Climate Strategy Advisors can guide your journey to net zero.

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