PACT
“Making sense of your climate change challenge”
What is the PACT?
The PACT acronym stands for Performance Acceleration through Capacity Transformation, and is an effective, quick
and affordable way to assess how well your organisation is responding to climate change issues, so that you can
effectively navigate your way forward with confidence.
PACT determines what actions will improve your organisation's capacity to respond to:
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Climate impacts and opportunities now and in the future
A changing carbon economy with increasing costs and diminishing resources
Regulatory and other pressures that will accompany these trends
There are two types of PACT evaluation and action plans:
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Climate Change Mitigation: Focusses on performance in handling emission reductions, energy
management, and other climate impacting activities;
Climate Adaptation: Focusses on responses to climate impacts such as heat-waves, fluvial/coastal/pluvial
flooding, wind damage, drought, etc.
The PACT Framework and Tool were designed and developed by Alexander Ballard Limited, UK, and have
successfully helped hundreds of organizations globally. Today, Daxam Sustainability Services has partnered with
Alexander Ballard Limited to deliver the benefits of PACT to the Nordic region.
Why PACT?
In 2011, the UK Climate Impacts
Programme undertook an independent
review of leading frameworks worldwide
designed to measure and develop
organisational capacity to respond to
climate impacts. The conclusion of this
review is that PACT provides the optimum
approach to measuring and developing
organisational and system capacity in
dealing with climate change.
“[PACT] allows organisations to consider adaptive capacity more
holistically than other frameworks“
“[PACT] has cultivated a greater level of introspection about how
the organisation works, and how we can improve how we work;
a very worthwhile exercise!”
Peter Tangney, UK Environment Agency
Who can use PACT?
“...the PACT approach was
inspirational in the way it could
so rapidly provide a clearly
structured analysis of our
complex adaptation
programme....”
PACT is used by single organisations, departments within organisations and
groups of organisations working in partnership, and can be used across every
economic and social sector.
The Netherlands' Climate
Adaptation Programme
PACT can be used either at the beginning of the process of improvement, to
monitor progress of a programme, or to maintain momentum when a
programme is getting stuck.
PACT has a wide range of uses from progress monitoring to external reporting.
It helps organisations already in the lead on the climate change agenda, as
well as those just starting to work with climate mitigation and/or adaptation.
The PACT Action Planner: Quick, Simple and Cost Effective
The PACT Climate Action Planner is an online evaluation and planning tool, with expert moderation, that gives you
an in-depth insight into where your organisation currently stands in addressing the challenges of climate change
mitigation and/or adaptation. The quick and effective process provides you with a detailed report on your
challenges as well as recommendations for the way forward.
Additional PACT approaches can combine one or all of online data collection, desk research and interviews in
varying measures dependent upon project scope, budget and objective. The online PACT Action Planner approach
has been designed to make the best use of time - both for our top-level experts and for your own busy staff.
Within Organisations or Across Sectors
Within an organisation, PACT can:
 Clearly identify where performance is strong or
weak
 Produce a tailored action plan that builds upon
strengths, and then tracks progress against it
 Identify where further support is needed
 Provide a structure for internal and external
reporting
 Support due diligence activity at Board level
Across a sector or several organisations, PACT can:
 Assess where members are strong and weak to
help structure best practice exchanges
 Provide benchmarking reports to drive
performance among members
 Identify common needs to help organisations fill
gaps co-operating and/or cost-effectively
 Determine optimum interventions and projects
that improve capacity across the system/sector
PACT methodology
The PACT methodology is based on years of research and a deep understanding of the key capabilities required to
address climate change.
PACT gathers
and organises
information
about nine
organisational
capacity
pathways
necessary for
improved
performance
The performance assessment of each
development pathway, and the
organisation as a whole, will be
measured against 6 response levels
The response level for
each development
pathway is mapped based
on a suite of crucial
activities – this forms the
basis for the reporting and
recommendations.
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© Alexander Ballard Ltd 2012
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www.alexanderballard.co.uk
© Daxam Sustainability Services 2012
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More information about PACT is available at Daxam´s website: www.daxam.se/pact
For additional information and PACT report samples, please contact Daxam:
Ana Pérez Aponte: [email protected]