Sustainability, Climate Action & Resilience

A climate action plan can help you achieve your climate goals whether you are a jurisdiction complying with updated Growth Management Act requirements, or private industry seeking to mitigate climate vulnerability. Our interdisciplinary consulting team can help you develop a plan that identifies climate risks and opportunities, addresses greenhouse gas emissions, and charts a strategy for meeting sustainability goals and desired co-benefits.

Understanding the potential impacts of sea level rise and extreme weather on your project is an ongoing challenge—one that MFA tackles every day. With decades of experience supporting ports, maritime industries, and coastal and flood-prone communities, our certified scientists and engineers can help you develop flood risk management plans, predictive sea level rise analyses and inundation maps, geologic and flood hazard mapping, and resilient watershed and river restoration designs adapted to a changing climate.

Measuring your greenhouse gas emissions is a vital step in developing a climate action plan and reducing your operation’s carbon footprint. We can assess Scope 1, Scope 2, and Scope 3 GHG emissions and design processes and protocol to help you track GHG emissions over time and ways to mitigate those emissions and move toward Net Zero or a lower emissions future.

Utilities, school districts, and transportation authorities are responding to rising community demand for clean, carbon-free electricity and in many cases, new regulatory requirements. We can help you engage those you serve on opportunities for and barriers to the transition to renewable energy.

Looking to build a wind, solar, hydrogen, biogas, or other alternative fuel facility? Our decades of permitting and regulatory experience can help ensure the success of your renewable energy project. We can help you evaluate potential sites, design your facility, obtain permits, and get your operation up and running.

Assessing the climate vulnerability of your infrastructure and assets is key to understanding risks and identifying opportunities for creating resiliency. We can help you analyze the impacts of climate change and extreme weather on your infrastructure, coasts and watersheds, and the health and well-being of your communities. From there, our team of scientists, engineers, and data analysts highlight your most vulnerable assets and work with you to develop prioritized adaptation strategies and innovative solutions to reduce risk and protect what you value most.

The surging demand for electric vehicles and clean energy alternatives with fleets and bus transportation requires cities and utilities to plan for a rapidly changing transportation system. Our Communications and Planning services can help you engage your communities and ridership in equitable planning processes.

Our team of sustainability professionals works with you to identify areas of opportunity for integrating sustainability into your corporate operations with a tailored sustainability plan. Our team works with you to develop specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-sensitive goals.

Our data analysts and sustainability professionals use data-driven tools and systems mapping to deliver actionable insights for your organization. By visually tracking and interpreting data, we clarify complex situations, identify knowledge gaps and intervention points, and strengthen decision-making. This strategic approach allows us to optimize your operations for sustainability, improve risk management, and maximize positive impact within your supply chains and communities—all while keeping your goals in focus.

Our team of data analysts and sustainability specialists provides comprehensive ESG support, helping you gather, analyze, and communicate data to stakeholders. We enable transparency in tracking environmental impacts, such as emissions and energy use, while developing metrics for employee well-being, diversity, and community engagement. By optimizing governance frameworks for ethical decision-making and compliance, we enhance your reporting, strengthen stakeholder trust, and position your organization as a leader in sustainable business practices.

In addition to ESG reporting, we can help guide you through third-party certification processes that further demonstrate your commitment to sustainability and transparency. Our team helps you identify data, extract meaning, and conduct research into the requirements for B Corp, USDA Organic, Fair Trade, Non-GMO project, 1% for the Planet, and LEED Certification.