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Founded in 1997, Best Foot Forward is one of Europe's leading sustainability consultancies specializing in ecological and carbon footprinting. Best Foot Forward specializes in three areas: consulting, policy and software tools.

 
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Consulting

Based on over 1,000 footprints from more than 300 organizations of all sizes and types, Best Foot Forward has developed a keen understanding of the best path forward to a green strategy that significantly reduces your carbon footprint and long-term carbon risk.

Policy

Best Foot Forward is at the forefront of standards development and application for both carbon and ecological footprinting. Best Foot Forward started developing the ecological footprint methodology in 1997 and continue to be international leaders in applying the methodology to organizations, products and regions.

Software Tools

Best Foot Forward are specialists in calculating sustainability metrics and using them to communicate findings to clients and wider audiences. From the outset, Best Foot Forward has developed software tools to engage users and demonstrate the relative impacts of alternative decisions. Best Foot Forward tools range from simple calculators to communicate personal lifestyle impacts, through to the sophisticated footprinter series that enables full environmental accounting, risk assessment and reduction planning.

Thought Leadership

The Best Foot Forward team have proven themselves as thought leaders in the sustainability metrics domain and are widely respected in the industry. For more than 12 years BFF has been engaged in originating and applying new approaches. As such, BFF has a number of firsts to its name:
  • 1997
    First commercial company to provide ecological footprint services and tools.
  • 1998
    First corporate footprints calculated.
  • 1999
    First company offering commercial carbon software tools.
  • 2000
    Authored "Sharing Nature's Interest" which has become a standard textbook on eco-footprints.
  • 2001
    Undertook first UK regional footprint and material flow study (Isle of Wight).
  • 2002
    BFF Environment Report wins prestigious ACCA Award.
  • 2002
    Undertook first ever footprint and material flow study of mega-City (London).
  • 2003
    Undertook first footprint & material flow study of the NHS (largest organization in EU).
  • 2005
    First sustainability consultancy to receive the Queen's Award.
  • 2006
    First global sectoral study of ecological, material & carbon impacts (One Planet Business).
  • 2007
    Awarded the contract to develop methodology for the first ever footprint of an Olympic Games.
  • 2007
    Launched the first enterprise carbon and ecological footprint web toolkit.
  • 2008
    Co-authored "The ZEDBook", a RIBA-award winning book on developing a low carbon economy.
  • 2008
    Appointed as sustainability advisers to Chicago's 2016 Olympic Bid.
  • 2009
    BFF develop first carbon calculator for United Arab Emirates.
  • 2009
    BFF launches partnership to develop first EU ETS tool for aviation sector.
  • 2009
    BFF launches water footprinting initiative with Innovaro.
  • 2009
    BFF launches first international PAS 2050 training course.
  • 2009
    Co-authors of the best-selling "Green Guide for Business".