Catalyst Zero
Accelerate your journey to a low-carbon future
We combine innovative technology with decades of transformation expertise to help you move from climate intention to impact.
Experience Catalyst Zero
We combine unmatched proprietary data, expert insights, and transformation expertise to help clients decarbonize their companies, products, and assets at unprecedented speed and scale.
What we do
We work with our clients to decarbonize across their business. Specifically, we help:
Set data-backed carbon-emissions reduction targets
that align with external standards and initiatives, such as SBTi, GHG Protocol, TCFD, CDP, and GRI
Develop company-wide transition strategies
by better understanding a company’s carbon footprint and implementing decarbonization initiatives across the entire organization
Decarbonize supply chains
by simulating the material value chain and examining abatement options to reduce embedded carbon in procured components and raw materials to achieve zero-carbon products
Our approach
Our proven approach rapidly helps companies build a more sustainable business with analytical and strategic support throughout the process.
Baseline
With speed and precision, assess an organization’s overall carbon footprint, and identify decarbonization priorities.
Value
Evaluate areas of carbon reduction potential, and assess their financial costs and benefits.
Plan
Set specific decarbonization targets, and create detailed plans to achieve them.
Act
Stay responsive to change, and make informed adjustments to the plan in real time with automated reporting and full transparency.
Value Chain Twin
Sustainability with substance
These days, many products promise to be green, but how many can back up their claims? With Catalyst Zero’s Value Chain Twin capability, you can achieve ultra-low emissions in your production without compromising on product quality.
Our core technology
Automate MACC generation
Our marginal abatement cost curve (MACC) tool leverages data ingestion and machine learning to reduce manual work, connect your activities directly to your decarbonization plan, and accelerate your path to carbon abatement.
Examples of our work
Case Study
Accelerating decarbonization across the farming supply chain
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Agriculture equipment manufacturer AGCO worked with McKinsey to automate decarbonization cost curve building and planning efforts using the Catalyst Zero tool.
Working with a manufacturer to develop zero carbon products
Using our zero-carbon product module, we helped set a leading industrial components manufacturer on the path to a 25 percent emissions reduction from all purchased goods by 2030, with a further 15 percent emissions reductions expected across the value chain.
Putting a leading pharmaceutical company on the path to decarbonization
A global chemicals and pharmaceuticals company used Catalyst Zero to identify over 4,500 kilotons of CO2 to be cut from supply chains. The company is on track to achieve a 28 percent reduction in Scope 3 emissions by 2030.
Helping a global logistics company reduce emissions along with costs
We worked with a logistics company to reduce its carbon intensity by an estimated 27 percent by 2025 while driving six percent year-over-year business growth.
Featured insights
Blog Post
McKinsey launches Catalyst Zero to help clients find and remove carbon across their businesses
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McKinsey Sustainability’s new end-to-end decarbonization solution helps organizations build and execute data-driven decarbonization strategies.
Collection
Decarbonizing the world’s industries: A net-zero guide for nine key sectors
The sectors that produce the majority of global greenhouse-gas emissions face a steep challenge to decarbonize, but our research shows that solutions are within reach. In many cases, a transformation is well underway. This collection draws together articles and reports that lay out a pathway to net zero for nine emissions-intensive industries.
Article
The zero-carbon car: Abating material emissions is next on the agenda
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The automotive industry could abate 66 percent of emissions from their material production at no extra cost by 2030—if industry participants work together and start now.
Featured experts
Tolga Oguz
Senior PartnerNew York
Supports leading institutions globally on transforming businesses and meeting sustainability goals
Nikhil Ati
PartnerHouston
Advises energy, chemicals, and materials companies and investors on decarbonization and the energy transition
