What I Care Environment does

I Care Environnement — operating commercially as I Care by BearingPoint — is a Paris-based sustainability and strategy consulting firm founded in 2008 that has served as BearingPoint's center of expertise for sustainable development since joining the group in June 2022. The firm advises private companies, financial institutions, and public organizations on environmental transition, structured around three practice areas: Impact (LCA, biodiversity, climate, circular economy, social impact, CSR), Transformation (digital, sustainable marketing, responsible operations, change management, sustainable strategy), and Sector expertise (agri-food, energy, sustainable finance, industry, public sector, telecoms). Its core revenue is generated through professional services engagements — strategy advisory, transformation, and methodology development — delivered by expert project teams on a quote-based, scope-defined basis, with no publicly disclosed pricing or productized SaaS.

The firm's technology stack is built on proprietary environmental methodologies rather than software products. Key assets include BFSuite (a multi-scale biodiversity footprint method unifying site, product, and organization-level approaches, launched October 2025), the Biodiversity Framework for Agricultural Transition (BFAT, with first methodological note published April 2026), and the ALDO carbon-sequestration estimation tool co-developed with ADEME and the Association Bilan Carbone. It also co-leads the Avoided Emissions Factor Database Initiative (AEFDi) with Quantis and launched the Avoided Emissions Platform (AEP) in April 2025 to standardize avoided-emissions calculations, and co-developed biodiversity impact indicators with Iceberg Data Lab deployed at AXA IM, BNPP AM, Sycomore AM, and Mirova. The firm is geographically anchored in France (28 rue du 4 septembre, Paris) with an international footprint in Brazil, and operates with 51-100 employees including 20+ named experts, project managers, and senior managers.

Name

I Care Environment

Legal name

I Care Environnement – SAS

Website

https://i-care-consult.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2008

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

I Care by BearingPoint is a Paris-based sustainability consulting firm advising private companies, financial institutions, and public organizations on environmental strategy, biodiversity, climate, LCA, and ESG reporting. Founded 2008 and now BearingPoint's center of expertise for sustainable development, it serves clients across France and Brazil.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Environmental & Sustainability Consulting Services

NAICS

Environmental Consulting Services (541620)

SIC

Services-Management Consulting Services (8742)

akta.pro primary industry

Sustainability & ESG Consulting (BPAHACAK)

Keywords

• Sustainability consulting services
• Environmental strategy advisory
• ESG climate consulting
• Biodiversity footprint assessment
• Carbon strategy advisory

Headquarters

HQ city

Paris

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Consulting Services: Professional consulting services for sustainability strategy, environmental transformation, ESG advisory, climate risk assessment, biodiversity strategy, and sustainable finance. Services are delivered through expert project teams adapted to client needs across private companies, financial institutions, and public organizations.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

I Care Environment (I Care by BearingPoint) is a sustainability and strategy consulting firm that helps private companies, financial institutions, and public organizations transition to a low environmental impact society. It delivers consulting services across carbon neutral strategy, biodiversity strategy and footprint, life cycle assessment and eco-design, digital sustainability, CSR roadmap, extra-financial reporting, climate risk and opportunity assessment, ESG-climate-impact advisory, sustainable financial products, and strategic foresight for territorial transitions.

Product overview

I Care by BearingPoint is a sustainability and strategy consulting firm that serves as BearingPoint's center of expertise for sustainable development. The company offers a comprehensive portfolio of consulting services organized across three client segments: Private Companies, Financial Institutions, and Public Organizations. The core service offerings include Carbon Neutral Strategy, Biodiversity Strategy & Footprint, LCA & Eco-Design, Digital Sustainability, CSR Roadmap, Extra-Financial Reporting, Climate Risk & Opportunity Assessment, ESG-Climate-Impact Strategy, Sustainable Financial Products development, and Strategic Foresight services. The company also provides specialized methodologies including the BFSuite Method for multi-scale biodiversity footprinting, the Biodiversity Framework for Agricultural Transition (BFAT), and the Avoided Emissions Platform for harmonizing avoided emissions calculations. These services are complemented by the I Care Academy for professional training and development.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Carbon Neutral Strategy Helps companies contribute to carbon neutrality by outlining and implementing a GHG emissions reduction strategy aligned with the Paris Agreement. Designed for private companies seeking to meet carbon reduction commitments.
• Biodiversity Strategy & Footprint Helps companies understand, measure, and reduce their impact on nature through biodiversity assessment methodologies, including the proprietary BFSuite multi-scale approach. For private companies facing increasing biodiversity disclosure obligations.
• LCA & Eco-Design Evaluates and improves the multidimensional environmental performance of a product or service using Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) methodologies, supporting eco-design decisions. For private companies developing greener products and services.
• Digital Sustainability Assesses the environmental impact of digital operations, as well as the benefits of digitalising services for environmental performance. For organizations seeking to address IT-related emissions and the sustainability potential of digital tools.
• CSR Roadmap Integrates environmental and social issues into the company's strategy through structured CSR action planning. For private companies developing or refreshing their corporate social responsibility agenda.
• Extra-Financial Reporting (CDP, TCFD, EU Taxonomy guidance) Supports companies in their extra-financial (non-financial) communication to investors and other stakeholders, including guidance on CDP, TCFD, and EU Taxonomy. For private companies and their investor relations / sustainability reporting teams.
• Climate Risk & Opportunity Assessment Helps companies understand and prepare for the risks and opportunities related to climate change, including physical and transition risks. For private companies needing climate risk disclosure aligned with TCFD/IFRS S2.
• Business Model for Green Products and Services Works with business development and marketing teams to identify market opportunities and business models for new environmental transition solutions. For private companies launching green products or services.
• ESG-Climate-Impact Strategy and Advisory Develops and implements solid ESG-Climate-Impact strategy with quantitative objectives, action plans, and monitoring. For financial institutions (asset managers, banks, insurers) building their sustainability strategy.
• Sustainable Financial Products Development & Critical Review Supports the development and improvement of sustainable funds and financial products, including critical reviews and methodological structure development. For financial institutions designing or refining sustainable investment products.
• Analysis and Environmental Monitoring of Financial Assets Analyzes and monitors the environmental performance of financial assets and integrates environmental analysis into credit and investment processes. For financial institutions integrating ESG into risk and asset management.
• Development and Assessment of Environmental Impact KPIs Develops and calculates environmental impact KPIs for financial institutions to measure and report on sustainability performance. For asset managers, banks, and insurers building their impact measurement frameworks.
• ESG & Impact Reporting Provides comprehensive ESG and impact reporting services aligned with regulatory requirements including SFDR and Article 29. For financial institutions subject to sustainable finance disclosure regulations.
• Strategic Foresight Defines territorial transition strategy that responds to environmental challenges through strategic foresight methodologies. For public organizations planning long-term environmental transitions.
• Environmental Public Policy
• Strategy, Plan and Programme Assessment Evaluates strategies, plans and programs for public organizations to ensure environmental effectiveness and alignment with targets. For governmental bodies conducting program evaluation.
• Socio-Economic Assessment Measures the socio-economic impacts of plans and programs and evaluates opportunities related to public policies supporting environmental transition. For public organizations and agencies conducting cost-benefit or impact assessments.
• Extra-Financial Reporting and Green Budget Supports public organizations in extra-financial reporting and green budget implementation for transparent environmental accounting. For governmental and territorial organizations implementing green budgeting practices.
• Development of Environmental Handbooks, Methods and Tools Develops environmental handbooks, methods and tools for public organizations to support environmental strategy implementation. For governmental bodies and agencies needing standardized environmental methodologies.
• BFSuite Method A unified multi-scale biodiversity footprint methodology that aligns site, product, and organization-level biodiversity footprint approaches into a single method, for clients needing standardized biodiversity measurement across scopes.
• Biodiversity Framework for Agricultural Transition (BFAT) A framework providing methodological guidance for assessing and reducing biodiversity impact in the agricultural sector, for agri-food clients and other organizations operating across agricultural value chains.
• Avoided Emissions Platform (AEP) A platform initiative to harmonize the assessment of climate solutions' impact by standardizing the calculation of avoided emissions, for organizations and investors measuring the climate contribution of solutions.
• I Care Academy Educational and training programs to deepen knowledge around environmental challenges and build capacity for sustainability transformation. For corporate, financial, and public sector clients seeking to upskill teams on environmental topics.

Named customers11 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

Seven partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• SweepcoreTechnology or Integration · 22 June 2026Strategic partnership with Sweep, a carbon and ESG data management platform. The partnership aims to accelerate sustainable transformation for businesses by combining I Care's consulting expertise with Sweep's data management capabilities.
• ADEMEcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCo-development of ALDO tool for carbon sequestration estimation with ADEME, Association Bilan Carbone (ABC), and Association des professionnels en Conseil Carbone (APCC). Also co-developed methodology for standardizing territories' climate targets analysis tested with 3 French pilot regions.
• Iceberg Data LabcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership for developing biodiversity impact indicator for investment funds, working with major asset managers including AXA Investment Managers, BNPP Asset Management, Sycomore AM, and Mirova to help financial players understand the footprint of their investments on fauna and flora.
• QuantiscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCo-leading the Avoided Emission Factor Database Initiative (AEFDi) with Quantis, involving investors, enterprises, and data providers to address challenges in calculating and standardizing avoided emissions metrics for climate transition contribution.
• WWF FranceminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaboration on biodiversity topics, including webinar participation and framework expertise sharing for SBT for Nature.
• TNFDminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaboration on biodiversity reporting frameworks, with TNFD expert participation in webinars on comparative analysis of CSRD, TNFD, SBT for Nature, and GRI frameworks.
• BearingPointcoreOthersI Care is BearingPoint's center of expertise for sustainable development, operating as a leader in impact-driven transformation within the BearingPoint group.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves8 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• PwC: Big Four professional services firm with a sizable EMEA sustainability and climate advisory practice. Competes for CSRD, SFDR, and TNFD mandates with I Care but at much greater scale and global delivery capacity.
• WSP: Major global engineering and environmental consulting firm with a substantial sustainability and climate advisory practice. Competes for the same enterprise and public-sector sustainability mandates as I Care.
• BearingPoint: I Care's parent organization and global management and technology consulting firm. Comparable as a broader transformation consulting platform housing I Care as its dedicated sustainable-development center of expertise.
• ERM (Environmental Resources Management): Large global pure-play environmental, sustainability, and ESG consulting firm. Overlaps with I Care on biodiversity strategy, climate risk assessment, and ESG advisory but at significantly broader scale and geographic reach.

Others

• Sweep: Carbon and ESG data management platform already partnered with I Care. Comparable as an enabler/ecosystem participant that overlaps functionally with what I Care helps clients operationalize, but does not compete head-on as a consulting firm.

Direct peers

• EcoAct: France-originated climate strategy and carbon management consultancy (now part of Inicio). Competes with I Care on carbon-neutral strategy, climate reporting, and ESG advisory for European enterprises and financial institutions.
• Carbone 4: Paris-based climate strategy and carbon-accounting consultancy founded in 2007. Closest head-to-head competitor to I Care on carbon-neutral strategy, footprinting, and climate advisory for corporates and financial institutions in France.
• South Pole: Global sustainability solutions provider with deep expertise in climate strategy, carbon markets, and net-zero advisory. Comparable scope and overlapping client base with I Care, with a much larger international footprint.
• Quantis: Global sustainability consultancy specializing in Life Cycle Assessment, environmental footprinting, and climate strategy. Co-leads the AEFDi with I Care and serves an overlapping enterprise and consumer-goods client base.

Emerging players

• Greenly: European climate-action SaaS platform focused on carbon accounting for SMEs and corporates. Adjacent to I Care's footprinting work; could increasingly compete for the data and reporting layer of the same engagements.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles20 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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