Twenty Years of Impact:
Quantis and the Making of Sustainable Business
Twenty years ago, Quantis was founded on a belief that environmental science and business strategy belonged together — a conviction that helped build a field now at a defining moment. In a world of faster data, shifting regulatory risk and mounting physical risk, the organizations that will lead the next era are those that embed sustainability into the core of how they operate, invest and grow. Quantis is building for exactly that: delivering solutions at scale, powered by AI, grounded in two decades of scientific expertise, and focused on demonstrating that sustainability and business performance are not in conflict, but inseparable.
Setting the standard before there was one
From its earliest days, Quantis was working at the forefront of topics that have since become central to sustainable business: life cycle assessment, ecodesign, water stewardship, and nature-related impacts. Many of the methodologies now considered standard were still being developed when Quantis’ experts were helping shape them.
Today, technological advances are transforming how fast and how far that journey from insight to action can go, freeing experts to focus on what matters most: understanding a company’s specific context, navigating complexity and driving the decisions that create lasting value.
When I joined Quantis, almost everything we did was mapping impacts and defining roadmaps. That work was essential, but we increasingly knew where the impacts lie and we shifted to action. The question now is how you make it stick in a way that holds even as business priorities shift. That move, from planning to lasting change, is what makes this moment so significant. ”
Charlotte Bande, Global Food and Beverage Sector Lead
11 years at Quantis
Raising the bar for entire industries
While much of this evolution has taken place within individual companies, progress in sustainability has also depended on collective action. Quantis has helped address that challenge by contributing to the pilots, collaborations and multi-sector initiatives spanning food, cosmetics, apparel, agriculture, pharmaceuticals, ICT and beyond1, allowing industries to move more consistently and at greater scale.
Quantis has supported the EcoBeautyScore initiative since its inception as a sustainability expert advisor. Brand owners have now begun publishing scores. Throughout this journey, Quantis’ work with EBS members and its scientific team has been instrumental in developing a scientifically rigorous methodology. Quantis’ legitimacy and global reach in the cosmetics industry has contributed to EBS endorsement from the broader external ecosystem. ”
Jean-Baptiste Massignon, Managing Director
EcoBeautyScore Association
Alongside its contributions to collective action, Quantis has built the digital tools that make sustainability scalable at the enterprise level, including eQosphere and SPICE, giving organizations the means to move beyond one-off studies toward consistent, decision-ready application. Whether shaping industry methodology or building the tools that operationalize it, the goal is the same: turning insight into measurable progress.
From measurement to activation: evolving with the field
Sustainability’s role inside organizations has moved well beyond reporting. It now reaches into investment allocation, enterprise risk and competitive positioning. Twenty years of working at the frontier of sustainable business has given Quantis a clear view of how fundamentally the field has shifted. What began as a question of measurement has become one of action, embedded in the decisions that determine cost, resilience and growth.
The green premium is one example of how that evolution plays out in practice. Working with a global chemical manufacturer, Quantis built a framework that quantified where environmental performance creates pricing power, risk reduction and consumer demand, moving the conversation from ‘what will this cost us’ to ‘what is this worth.’
In risk management, the reframe has been equally consequential. Working with a global consumer goods company, Quantis helped procurement teams move beyond cataloging climate risks to understanding which ones actually reach the business, protecting supply continuity, reducing cost volatility and strengthening long-term resilience.
Our collaboration with Quantis is a significant step toward achieving emission reduction targets. Together we have addressed a critical component of our sustainability journey: scalable data collection and a cost-effective analysis methodology that is aligned with carbon accounting standards and our climate frameworks. ”
Jay Watson, Director Regenerative Agriculture
General Mills
Built on science, focused on impact
Deep, technical credibility remains at the core, now paired with stronger capabilities across strategy, risk, cross-functional activation and enterprise execution. Quantis also brings something harder to replicate: the experience to recognize how sustainability priorities shift, and the foresight to help companies prepare for what comes next.
Its relationship with BCG further strengthens this position, adding broader capabilities in strategy and financial modeling that help integrate sustainability into business strategy, business models, and enterprise decision-making. Together, this deepens the ability to act on macro challenges in ways that create enterprise value.
Quantis has brought a science-first credibility to BCG’s sustainability work that our clients really value, especially in the consumer space. It also creates a more focused way to engage Chief Sustainability Officers and unlock larger transformation programs. In return, BCG enables Quantis to move from great science into real-world impact. That combination is working exactly as we hoped. ”
Patrick Dupoux, Managing Director & Senior Partner at BCG and Quantis Chair
The next twenty years start now
The next era will be defined by the ability to move from fragmented efforts to scaled execution.
What this moment calls for is a different operating mode — one where AI transforms how sustainability decisions are made: faster, more precise, and grounded in richer data, giving companies the confidence to act at the pace the transition demands; and where sustainability is managed proactively, treated as a living risk and governed with the same rigor as financial performance.
We set out to prove that environmental science and business success could go hand in hand. That case is still being made, and Quantis is at the center of making it happen. The work of embedding sustainability into how companies operate, invest and grow is far from done. That’s exactly where Quantis is focused — not just helping our partners plan for that future, but delivering it. ”
Allon Zeitoun, CEO at Quantis
The people behind the work
Quantis’ impact is not only the story of a firm, but of the people who built it: scientists, engineers, strategists and communicators who have spent careers turning environmental complexity into practical business action.
Over the years, Quantis has given me the room to test new ideas that bring sustainability forward, take on new challenges, and keep pushing what’s possible. That entrepreneurial spirit, and the people who share it, is what keeps me motivated every day. ”
Marcial Vargas-Gonzalez, Global Science and Innovation Lead
12 years at Quantis
It is their curiosity and commitment that have defined what Quantis is, and what it will become.
Quantis sits at an uncommon intersection where hard science meets hard business decisions. Every day, across companies, governments, and industries throughout EMEA, I watch the people here turn that into real, measurable change. That combination is not easy to find, yet it matters. ”
Marissa Chkeiban, Sustainability Manager
5 years at Quantis
- Initiatives include: BSI PAS 2090, GCCA EPD tool, PAIA (ICT), EcoBeautyScore (EBS), PEF Apparel & Footwear, SBTN pilots, SBTi FLAG, GHG Protocol LSRS, VCI, New Energy Coalition, WRI, Watch & Jewellery Initiative, Fashion Leap for Climate, World Cocoa Foundation, and Pharma LCA Consortium. ↩︎
