Climate and Nature Solutions is a climate change advisory firm with a mission to accelerate the transition to a net zero, nature positive future.
We provide detailed strategic counsel, policy analysis and research services to clients who are leading the shift to a net zero world.
Our advisory services are backed by our own deep expertise advancing effective climate policy, globally-significant nature conservation wins, innovative corporate decarbonization efforts, international climate alliances and inspiring advocacy campaigns.
And because the climate crisis demands collective solutions, we make sure our clients connect through our extensive global networks to the coalitions and partners that can help them succeed.
OUR ADVISORY SERVICES INCLUDE:
Strategic counsel to boards and executives
Nature-based solutions to climate change
Policy analysis and research services
Partnerships for innovation
Risk management
Transition and decarbonization strategies
Stakeholder engagement and coalition building
Meet the Climate and Nature Solutions Team
Catherine McKenna is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Climate and Nature Solutions. She is Canada's former Minister of Environment and Climate Change as well as Minister of Infrastructure. She is Chair of the UN Secretary General’s High-Level Expert Group on Net-Zero Commitments of Non-State Entities which released its Integrity Matters report at COP 27 in Egypt in 2022 setting out criteria for net zero commitments of business, financial institutions, cities and regions. She founded Women Leading on Climate and is a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Columbia Climate School and a Visiting Professor in Practice at the Grantham Research Institute at the London School of Economics. She is an advisor to the Climate Data Steering Committee for the Macron/Bloomberg Net Zero Data Public Utility, Singapore's International Advisory Panel for Carbon Credits, the Taskforce on Net Zero Policy, the LSE Just Transition Finance Lab, as well as to the University of Ottawa's Information Integrity Lab. She also advises many private sector boards. She is a frequent speaker on climate action, net zero leadership and women empowerment.
As Canada’s former Minister of Environment and Climate Change she was a lead negotiator of the Paris Agreement (Article 6 on carbon markets). She successfully negotiated Canada’s first comprehensive climate change plan including a coal phase out and a price on carbon across Canada — a policy successfully upheld at the Supreme Court. She brought in Canada's new Impact Assessment Act for the review of major projects, led efforts to ban single use plastics, and doubled the amount of nature protected in Canada in partnership with Indigenous Peoples. Internationally she helped establish the Powering Past Coal Coalition, the Ministerial on Climate Action and the Nature Champions Summit, and was Co-Chair of the World Bank's Carbon Pricing Leadership Coalition.
As Minister of Infrastructure and Communities, she led Canada's historic investments in public transit and green infrastructure, leveraged private sector investment in sustainable infrastructure through the Canada Infrastructure Bank, and launched Canada’s first National Infrastructure Assessment to drive to net-zero emissions by 2050.
Prior to entering politics, Catherine practiced corporate, trade and anti-trust law at leading firms in Canada and Indonesia, worked as lead negotiator on the Timor Sea Treaty with the UN Peacekeeping Mission to East Timor and founded Canadian Lawyers Abroad (now Level Justice). She studied at the University of Toronto, the Landon School of Economics and McGill Law School and is called to the Bars of New York and Ontario. Catherine was named Chevalier (Knight) of the Légion d’Honneur by the French government in recognition of her contribution to the landmark Paris Agreement and an Honourary Fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographic Society for her public service and commitment to environmental conservation. She is a mother to three children and is an avid open water swimmer.
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Jane McDonald is the Vice President of Climate and Nature Solutions. She joins the team having led two of Canada's major sustainable economy think tanks, Smart Prosperity and the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD). She is a member of Canada’s Generation Energy Council, which produced the first energy vision for Canada consistent with the country’s climate goals, and the Farmers for Climate Solutions Task Force. She is a Director of The Transition Accelerator, and a delegate to the Net-Zero Data Public Utility, the world’s first global repository for private sector climate transition-related data freely accessible to all.
Jane began her career in the private sector, launching new environmental markets at New York investment bank Cantor Fitzgerald where she brokered some of the first-ever carbon credit deals between large energy companies and international projects. She then directed a successful advocacy effort to have renewable electricity from major Canadian utilities included in President Obama’s Clean Power Plan.
From 2015-2106 she served as Policy Director in the office of Canada’s Minister of Environment and Climate Change, through the signing of the Paris Agreement, the adoption of a national climate strategy and the implementation of a national price on carbon pollution.
In 2020, she joined an independent group of Canadian finance, policy and sustainability leaders who formed the Task Force for a Resilient Recovery, publishing a roadmap for a long-term COVID recovery strategy to keep Canada competitive in the fast-growing global clean economy.
Outside of her work, Jane has taught as an Adjunct Professor of Environmental Finance at the University of Toronto, served on the board of many non-profits, is a 2007-2008 Action Canada Fellow and a 2024 winner of the Clean50 Award.
Lauren Brach is a Climate Associate at Climate and Nature Solutions
Lauren is a dynamic professional with a strong academic foundation and a deep interest in sustainability. She holds a dual degree in Business Administration and Agriculture, with a sustainability minor, from Dalhousie University, where she actively participated in pitch competitions focused on circular food systems in Canada. Beginning her career in supply chain management, Lauren took on sustainability projects, laying the foundation for her future endeavors. She pursued a Master's in Environmental Management and Policy at Lund University in Sweden.
During her master's studies, Lauren became the President of 180 Degrees Consulting Lund, a prominent student consulting firm dedicated to environmentally and socially driven organizations. Lauren joined the Sustainable Agriculture Initiative, crafting an implementation guidance for regenerative agriculture in supply chains. Her work then shifted toward decarbonization and net-zero strategies. Lauren joined the sustainability team at a leading technology company in Copenhagen, where she supported their sustainability reporting, carbon accounting, circularity projects, and biodiversity risk mapping. While doing her Masters thesis she worked with a leading company to develop a comprehensive framework and roadmap, outlining a path to achieve fossil fuel free transportation, contributing to the company's Global Net Zero Roadmap.
Lauren is a dedicated advocate for sustainability focused on making a lasting impact.