FOSTERING SUSTAINABILITY IN THE BUSINESS WORLD

Carly Sibilia is a biodiversity consultant and nature-based solutions specialist at Environmental Resources Management (ERM). As the largest global pure play sustainability consultancy, ERM partners with the world’s leading organizations to create innovative solutions to sustainability challenges, unlocking commercial opportunities that meet the needs of today while preserving opportunities for future generations.

In her role, Carly supports clients across sectors, understands their upstream and downstream impacts to biodiversity and helps to design corporate strategies that put nature first, while also scaling up funding for nature-based and natural climate solutions. Nature-based solutions refer to actions that address societal challenges through the protection, sustainable management, and restoration of ecosystems, benefitting both human well-being and biodiversity. Natural climate solutions are nature-based solutions that harness nature’s capacity to capture and store carbon from the atmosphere.

By advocating for holistic solutions that benefit people, climate, and nature, Carly helps companies with large-scale impacts do their part in reversing the dual crises of climate change and biodiversity loss. As decarbonization of energy systems and issues related to greenwashing and environmental injustice continue to pose significant challenges to the corporate world, there has never been a greater need for and interest in naturepositive business. A published writer who is passionate about making an impact on the future, Carly has built her early career around this emerging demand, finding success in a role that did not exist as little as five years ago.

Carly encourages current MKA students and recent alumni to find their place in the sustainability conversation and build the business case for positive impact by leveraging the interdisciplinary skillsets gained from their MKA education.