Environmental Sustainability
With numerous active projects in six areas (restoration, biodiversity, sanitation, education, microenterprise and advocacy), and a $14 million UNDP Global Environment Facility grant, Grupo Ecologico Sierra Gorda needed a way to organize the overwhelming amount of data it collected and to use that data to optimize its impact and its future fundraising capabilities. SVT developed a customized impact management system to measure the ecological, economic, and social benefits and carbon co-benefits generated through its community-based work. Read more...
Morrison & Foerster, LLP is a world-renowned, San Francisco-based law firm highly respected for its cross-sector expertise and commitment to public service. The firm wanted to align and expand its existing expertise with the growing market opportunities in the advancing cleantech industry. Inherently interdisciplinary, cleantech endeavors generate legal issues that require synthesis among several substantive legal areas, including corporate transactions, intellectual property, and environmental law, among others. Read more...
Sustainable tourism and ecotourism managers and investors share the goals of protecting the local environment, offering environmental and cultural education, and providing economic empowerment benefits for local communities, while generating a profit. To do this, they need practical tools to manage and prioritize the multiple (and often competing) beneficiaries. SVT’s ECOframe methodology can help.
ECOframe is a management framework to help sustainable tourism operators and investors ensure maximum positive impact for the resources at hand. ECOframe enables you to: Read more...
