Pure Strategies Joins Science Based Targets Network Corporate Engagement Program
by Tim Greiner
08 December 2020
Pure Strategies joined as a pioneer member of the Science Based Targets Network (SBTN) Corporate Engagement Program, to help advance corporate adoption of science-based targets for water, land, biodiversity, and oceans to complement the important work on science-based targets for climate. Our team supports our client efforts and SBTN’s program to ensure that companies are working within the limits of the Earth’s systems and to help reverse nature loss and achieve net-zero emissions in line with science.
The Science Based Targets Network recently launched the Corporate Engagement Program to offer companies and their subsidiaries, consultants, and industry coalitions an opportunity to engage in the development of the methods, tools, and guidance between now and 2022.
“Business plays a vital role in protecting people and planet,” notes Erin Billman, Executive Director, Science Based Targets Network. “The Science Based Targets Network’s Corporate Engagement Program gives leading companies a way to help develop the tools and guidance needed to set vital science-based targets for nature.”
As a leading sustainability consulting firm, Pure Strategies designs transformative strategies, improves products and packaging, and shifts supply chains toward greater environmental and social performance for industry-leading companies. Clients include Walmart, Timberland, Seventh Generation, Ben & Jerry’s, and over 100 other leading companies.
Pure Strategies will support the SBTN Corporate Engagement Program by:
- Assessing SBTN draft guidance and tools and recommending improvements
- Enabling companies to gain strategic insight into cutting-edge science and approaches developed by the Science Based Targets Network
- Helping clients to use the guidance and tools to understand issues to prioritize and where to take action now
“Restoring and protecting nature is essential to halving the Earth’s greenhouse gas emissions by 2030,” notes Tim Greiner, Managing Director for Pure Strategies. “To help achieve this milestone, Pure Strategies fully supports the SBTN Corporate Engagement Program to help companies set targets beyond climate that will include sustainability goals to protect freshwater, biodiversity, land, and oceans. After all, good planets are hard to find. We need to protect ours.”
To learn more and sign up for the Corporate Engagement Program, go to: https://sciencebasedtargetsnetwork.org/join-the-sbtn-corporate-engagement-program/sign-up-to-the-corporate-engagement-program/
Written by Tim Greiner
Tim Greiner, a Pure Strategies Co-founder and Managing Director, has pioneered approaches to building environmental and social integrity into products, brands, and businesses. His experience spans the spectrum from developing sustainability strategy, drafting sustainability goals, designing product sustainability programs, creating approaches to transform sustainable supply chains and fostering collaborative mechanisms to lift the sustainability performance of entire industries. He is currently working with several progressive businesses on developing science-based targets and comprehensive climate strategies. He is a co-founder of the Chemical Footprint Project and has guided sustainable chemicals management strategies for companies across diverse industries. He has also led regenerative agriculture projects with food brands and retailers. Current and former clients include Annie’s, Walmart, Seventh Generation, Ben & Jerry’s, The North Face, Stonyfield Farm, MilliporeSigma and U.S. EPA.
Tim holds Masters’ degrees in Environmental Policy and Business from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Bachelor's degree in Materials Science Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He is a founding member of the Massachusetts Toxics Use Reduction Planners Association and a former Board member and President. He is also founder of the Cape Ann Climate Change Network and is a Research Associate at the Lowell Center for Sustainable Production. Tim has experience in industry as a Process Engineer for Fairchild Semiconductor. He also worked for the Massachusetts Office of Technical Assistance as Project Director and Chief Engineer.
