Fundamental Inc. is an impact-first climate action consulting firm. Headquartered in Harbour Main, NL, we facilitate strategic planning that captures opportunities for carbon emissions reductions and enables actions to increase climate resilience. We employ a science-based approach, developing climate-conscious decision metrics for our clients. Our services cover all aspects of climate action, including climate vulnerability assessments, strategic plans for climate resilience, eco-asset management frameworks, GHG inventories and carbon management plans, as well as addressing a just transition to a greener economy.

Our mission is to enact climate resilience, social well-being, and lowest life cycle costs.

We work with our clients to achieve their sustainability goals while decoupling GHG emissions output from economic growth and development.

Over the past nine years, Fundamental Inc. has worked with our clients, often on multiple successive projects, to address their needs related to climate action. Fundamental’s service offering covers all aspects of climate action – from environmental impact analysis and strategic planning to implementation of individual projects. Fundamental has a 70% success rate with funding applications and has supported clients in accessing about $33Mil since 2018. We are proud that our services have a beneficial impact for our clients. We work in all private and public sectors.

As an impact-oriented firm, the point and purpose of all our projects is to ensure that the project outcomes bring value to our clients through reducing their environmental footprint, improving their operational efficiency, lowering their operational/capital costs, and increasing their market competitiveness overall.

We offer the following services:

Climate Action Planning – Mitigation and Adaptation – storm water, wastewater, urban climate, wildlife biology, connectivity and transportation, integrated renewable energy, carbon management planning
GHG Emissions Inventory, Quantification – ISO 14064
Net Zero Building Design Supports – building energy models for net zero carbon
Proposal Application Writing and support services
Eco-Asset Management – strategic integration of climate-conscious metrics into traditional asset management and financial management frameworks

Fundamental Inc. is a 100% woman-owned business and a Certified B Corporation. Through the annual purchase of NL-based carbon offsets, Fundamental Inc. has been carbon neutral since 2017. Fundamental Inc. is pledged to the UN Race to Zero Campaign’s SME Climate Hub. We have successfully decoupled our operational carbon emissions from our company’s economic growth and development – our 2024 emissions were 32% lower than our 2019 emissions despite our annual revenue being 2.5 times higher. We are doing more good work with less impact.