Justyn Branton has been appointed managing director of Bermudian-based Climate Wise.

The organisation, founded in 2020, was created to provide support to individuals and companies, assisting them to compute their carbon footprints; share tips and solutions via the Climate Wise app, podcast, and publications to create reduction plans and reduce their footprint; and to offset any residual footprint by supporting carefully selected projects globally.

The company said it has developed its offering and provides consulting solutions to businesses looking to centralise processes, procedures and reporting around their environmental, social and governance work as well as their corporate social responsibility work, assisting with a number of globally recognised accreditations as organisations develop solutions in these critical areas.

Mr Branton said: ‘By working alongside companies to understand their current exposure, helping them develop a multiyear carbon reduction plan, and then assisting them to identify internal and external projects which can be supported to help them achieve carbon neutrality whilst on their journey to net zero, Climate Wise has designed its three-stage approach to net zero which is perfect for companies of all sizes who do not have an in-house full-time function in this area.”

The company is based in Bermuda, with charitable arms in the UK and US, and is supporting local and global businesses.

Bermudian-based Stephen Castree, a founder and director, added: “Climate Wise also works with companies to design their ESG/CSR reporting so that with clearly defined procedures and a repeatable plan and support on delivery, they can create a solution for their path to net zero without negatively impacting people’s work time unduly, whilst maximising their environmental impact.”

As well as working in conjunction with global projects, Climate Wise also operates at the grass roots level, by putting projects on the ground.

On the island, the Bermuda Seagrass Project has been a collaboration between industry, the Government of Bermuda, and individual donors.

This week Climate Wise announced, in partnership with Imire, a wildlife conservation organisation based in Zimbabwe, a reforestation project which takes previously cleared forest areas of Zimbabwe set within a protected area and re-creates a natural indigenous protected forestry environment within which flora, fauna and wildlife can recover and thrive.

The organisation said the initial 37-acre site is being rewilded and then managed carefully until it is safe for elephants, rhino, giraffe and other native wildlife to enter the site.

It said this is the latest example of a new project, supported by companies to complement their internal reduction plans with external projects, and it delivers a major environmental improvement, coupled with the benefits of carbon reduction.

Climate Wise said it has plans in place to complete further rewilding projects in the UK and Canada.