McKinsey Sustainability
Sustainability matters
Here’s how we’re working with clients to make it real.
Blog Post
With gen AI, helping green businesses strengthen our ‘blue economy’
Using generative AI technologies, McKinsey is helping One Ocean Foundation create an accurate picture of how businesses are sustaining our oceans.
Case Study
Building a next-generation carbon platform to accelerate the path to net zero
TPG worked with McKinsey to create Rubicon Carbon, a carbon credit management and investment firm that helps enterprises achieve their sustainability goals
Case Study
How a global components manufacturer built an ambitious carbon reduction roadmap
Danfoss is working to decarbonize the supply chain for some of the world’s most emission-heavy sectors with the help of McKinsey.
How we help
We’re your partner in innovation.
Sustainability is a journey with a complex roadmap. To move from plans to progress and from hype to results requires ambition, innovation, and transformation experience. We help companies quickly scale what works, fuel growth while cutting carbon, and turn sustainability into a competitive edge and source of resilience.
Green business building
Going beyond decarbonization and rethinking what it takes to be a green enterprise.
Decarbonization transformation
Finding and removing carbon across the business system.
Sustainable Investing
Steering investment capital to the areas of greatest promise.
Climate technology
Accelerating deployment of net-zero technologies.
Net-zero financial institutions
Helping banks, asset managers, and insurers decarbonize their portfolios.
Carbon management
Managing CO2, scaling carbon capture and removal solutions, and navigating carbon markets.
ESG & net-zero strategy
Identifying the key actions that will get organizations closer to net-zero.
Natural capital and nature
Transitioning to a net-zero and nature-positive economy.
On-Point Insights
Report
Climate Transition Impact Framework (C-TIF): Planning for a sustainable and inclusive future
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The Climate Transition Impact Framework (C-TIF) can help decision makers compare the potential socioeconomic impacts of different climate action pathways.
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The hard stuff: Navigating the physical realities of the energy transition
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The energy transition is a physical transformation in its early stages. What challenges lie ahead?
Report
Global Energy Perspective 2025
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Geopolitical uncertainty, shifting policies, and increasing demand for power are reshaping the energy landscape. In this year’s report, we present our updated view on what’s to come in the energy system.
Driving sustainability success
The energy transition is complex and will require rethinking daily operations. McKinsey Sustainability has the capabilities to help you transform for tomorrow while fostering resilience, growth, and a competitive edge. Our partners share how we can help make your sustainable future a reality.
Our people
Distinguished by their expertise and experience, our people are renowned leaders, shaping the future of business through innovative insights and impactful strategies.
Hemant Ahlawat
Zurich
Coleads McKinsey Sustainability, helping all industries reach net-zero, and cochairs the McKinsey Health Institute, catalyzing...
Cindy Levy
London
Helps global financial firms on multiyear agendas related to strategy, transactions, organization, risk management, culture,...
Sanjay Kalavar
Houston
As global coleader of McKinsey Sustainability, helps energy investors and operators build businesses, evaluate assets, reduce...
Technology & Solutions
Enable data-driven decision-making in agriculture, finance, and other sectors, speeding up decarbonization and scaling climate risk assessments.
Catalyst Zero
Accelerating decarbonization transformations at scale
Planetrics
Helping financial institutions assess climate risk and opportunity
Partnerships
McKinsey works with leading institutions to develop distinctive thought leadership and convene partnerships that tackle problems that any one institution alone could not. We bring the best of our firm’s knowledge, expertise, and analysis to identify innovative solutions.
World Economic Forum (WEF)
We have partnered with WEF on scaling sustainability solutions across a number of sectors, including agriculture, energy, infrastructure, and mobility. In a recent collaboration for the report “Nature and Net Zero,” we explore the role that natural climate solutions can play in helping to address climate change and the destruction of nature.
Frontier
Frontier is the over $1 billion advance market commitment (AMC) to purchase permanent carbon removal before 2030, by McKinsey Sustainability in collaboration with fellow founders Alphabet, Meta, Shopify and Stripe. Frontier aims to accelerate the development of permanent carbon removal technologies and expand the global supply of carbon removal.
World Business Council on Sustainable Development (WBCSD)
As a knowledge partner to WBCSD, we’re collaborating on many fronts, from helping to drive transparency of Scope 3 emissions to assessing strategic resilience through the climate transition.