Bridging Innovation and Impact: The CLT Approach
Each aspect of our approach reflects the diverse expertise of our team. Our management consulting backgrounds drive rigorous market analysis and validation. Investment experience sharpens our business case development and ROI frameworks. Deep foundations in Science and Engineering ensure technical rigour in solution scouting and pilot implementation. This blend of expertise allows us to evaluate opportunities from multiple perspectives, delivering smarter, more effective strategies.
Market Research
Our extensive databases and networks across cleantech verticals help clients navigate the latest R&D, emerging technologies and sector growth trends. Many of our engagements begin with innovation landscape mapping, which we have delivered across diverse sectors, including energy storage, critical minerals, and sustainable construction materials. Our expertise in technology readiness levels, commercial viability assessment, and adoption trajectories enables us to provide clients with actionable insights for strategic decision-making.
Our technology road mapping supports organisations in identifying optimal pathways to net zero. We have developed investment roadmaps for industries including food and drink, chemicals, and pharmaceuticals. These roadmaps serve a wide range of stakeholders, including end-users, equipment manufacturers, and policymakers, and have been instrumental in informing supply chain engagement.
Innovation Strategy
Research shows that companies strategically embracing green innovation are 3.5 times more likely to outperform their competitors. We specialise in cleantech innovation strategy that propels you beyond ‘business as usual’, using cutting-edge methodologies to uncover breakthrough opportunities in markets increasingly shaped by climate concerns. We help forward-thinking organisations define the precise role of cleantech innovation in their business, build risk-balanced portfolios of initiatives, and unlock significant value.
Our approach embeds cleantech innovation into your organisation’s core, accelerating your sustainability transformation. We work closely with your teams to launch new products in the right markets and scale, create innovative ecosystems that deliver competitive advantage, and align your people to execute effectively.
By challenging conventional thinking, reframing climate challenges as commercial opportunities, and fostering cross-functional collaboration, we enable your organisation to turn sustainability imperatives into a continuous source of business growth and environmental impact.
Innovation Acceleration
We design and implement support programmes for early-stage businesses – both stand-alone and within larger entities – addressing critical development areas, such as market analysis, proposition definition, team composition, financing, IP management, and industrial partnerships. Our structured approach ensures comprehensive support across all key success factors.
Our accelerator programmes help governments and corporations drive cleantech venture growth and access new markets. By advancing cohorts of ventures in parallel, we accelerate sector-wide innovation, building lasting innovation ecosystems.
Innovation Networks and Partnerships
As ecosystem architects, we design innovation networks that connect assets and expertise, driving mutual value for government and corporate clients. For the public sector, we have designed innovation clusters linking research institutions and start-ups with corporates, creating knowledge spillovers that research shows can increase patent activity by 12-18%. For corporates, we establish open innovation frameworks that tap external expertise, with studies demonstrating that these approaches can accelerate problem-solving by up to 30%.
Demand-led Innovation and Pull Mechanisms
We design mechanisms and incentives that create and sustain early demand for emerging innovations, enabling faster market adoption with reduced risk. Our expertise helps corporates meet decarbonisation goals through purchasing commitments tied to clear performance metrics. By creating market certainty for innovative solutions, we help bridge the gap between promising technologies and commercial viability and unlock investment into production.
Climate Finance
We specialise in designing bespoke climate finance mechanisms and driving their adoption. We help clients efficiently mobilise capital toward high-impact, sustainable outcomes by bridging financial innovation with climate action. Our expertise spans structuring first-loss provisions, designing risk-sharing facilities, and creating investment vehicles that align diverse stakeholder interests. We support implementation through comprehensive technical assistance, targeted capacity building, and the development of robust monitoring frameworks.
Our team has architected blended finance solutions that strategically combine public, private, and philanthropic capital, effectively de-risking investments and unlocking new funding streams for climate initiatives.
Events
Networking and events are critical to building thriving cleantech ecosystems. With many years of experience designing and facilitating innovation showcases, workshops, and labs, we transform conventional gatherings into catalysts for meaningful collaboration and tangible action. Our team works closely with government agencies and corporate partners to craft events that drive real outcomes—not just conversation.
From intimate strategic workshops to large-scale industry summits, we orchestrate every aspect of event design with precision and purpose. Our proven methodology ensures participants leave with clear pathways forward, new strategic partnerships, and the momentum needed to accelerate innovation in sustainable technology.
Our specialisms
Net Zero Energy
Innovative solar, wind, and storage technologies are revolutionising our power systems, delivering affordable, reliable electricity without the carbon footprint.
Green Buildings
Smart design meets cutting-edge technology to create structures that slash operational and embodied carbon while creating healthier indoor environments that enhance wellbeing and productivity.
Clean Transport
From electric vehicles to hydrogen fuel cells and autonomy, mobility innovations are transforming how we move people and goods whilst driving down emissions and dramatically improving urban air quality.
Industrial Decarbonisation
Revolutionary processes and materials are helping heavy industries dramatically cut carbon whilst maintaining productivity and competitiveness.
Sustainable Agri-Food
Addressing biodiversity loss, reducing food carbon footprints, and meeting growing consumer demand are driving innovations that feed expanding populations sustainably, as precision farming and regenerative techniques heal our relationship with the land.
Circular Economy
Ingenious product design and recycling solutions are embedding sustainability from conception, ending the take-make-waste cycle and keeping valuable resources in continuous use.
Water Efficiency
Advanced filtration, smart monitoring, and conservation systems ensure clean water access whilst reducing waste in our most precious resource.
Solutions
By operating at the intersection of corporates, investors and innovators, we’ve developed unique insights into successful partnership structures and commercial models. To find out more about how we work with our clients, please select the theme most relevant to you: