Impact | Pineapple

Partnerships work.

We help businesses to transition to a sustainable future and achieve long-term success by aligning commercial and impact incentives across the value chain. This is possible today through the power of partnership, enabled by digital technology in an increasingly connected world.

Analogue era

Slow and cumbersome communications technology created a world of competition in which organisations were isolated, reactive and mostly process oriented. Good business meant stand-a-lone projects as 'corporate social responsibility'.

Digital era

Mobile communications and the internet then enabled a world of connection in which organisations were better networked, more proactive and increasingly data driven. Good business meant data-driven decision making for sustainability.

Partnership era

Now, we live in a platform world of collaboration in which interdependent organisations need shared business models to solve increasingly complex problems. Good business now means working across value chains for system-wide impact.

At Pineapple, we see ourselves as leading the charge for the power of partnerships in a creating a sustainable future. We are already making an impact through our consulting work and ventures across a range of transition system areas.

Thinking big

We develop shared business models for impact at scale

The transition to a sustainable future is a $12tn+ annual market opportunity that combines the scale and speed of the industrial, agricultural and technology revolutions. The best placed organisations will be those that deliver system wide impact, through collaboration across the value chain.

Our role at Pineapple is to accelerate the change. We bring organisations together to form sustainability-in-a-box solutions that solve system problems at scale.

Our starting point is an Imagine Lab where we explore the potential for shared business models to deliver both impact and return. We design partnerships that:

Reduce cost through innovative financing mechanisms.
Deliver at scale through partnerships with established organisations able to overcome fragmented value chains with supply challenges.
Achieve impact and return through a shared business model that delivers an effective, impactful solution that meets customer needs.

Please reach out to explore the power of partnership with us.

"Working with Pineapple has been instrumental in helping us to accelerate scale partnerships in Net Zero Transition and help to support this very important part of the market"
Paul Thwaite, NatWest Group CEO

Built environment

We are decarbonising buildings through retrofit partnerships

Buildings alone are responsible for over a third of global energy-related carbon emissions. At Pineapple, we are addressing this challenge through a partnership-based approach to decarbonising retrofit.

Pineapple Ventures in the Built Environment:

Built environment ‘Imagine Lab’ with a range of system leaders to explore the opportunity for shared business models to accelerate the transition.
Pineapple Homes is our partnership to serve the social housing sector. Bringing together British Gas, NatWest and the retrofit supply chain, we are on a mission to retrofit thousands of homes in the UK. Our alliance of experts in finance, energy, technology, and insurance has developed a funding model to reduce the upfront costs of retrofit by up to 70%, and are now delivering with housing associations across the country.
Pineapple CoRE is our partnership to serve the commercial real estate sector with a 'one-stop-shop' offer for decarbonising retrofit, supported by scale delivery partners and innovative finance providers. More details to come!

"Partnership working is the future. With thanks to Pineapple we are collaborating across and within sectors, which means we can utilise emerging technology to maximise our impact while continuing to provide the high-quality service we need to."
Greg Reed, Places for People CEO

Agriculture

We are scaling regenerative practices through collaboration

We need thriving agriculture sector that provides healthy food, raw materials and prosperity for the rural economy. However, the sector faces growing challenges in contributing towards and suffering from climate change and the degradation of natural resources. We need to scale regenerative agricultural practices that reverse these effects and help farmers adapt to a changing climate.

Pineapple Ventures in Agriculture:

Our Agriculture Imagine Lab engages large organisations with scale in food, land and agriculture to identify where our model can best accelerate change.
Pineapple Farms is our emerging venture that applies learnings from our work in the built environment to leverage proven technology, innovative finance mechanisms and scale delivery capacity to help food producers operate more sustainably.
We are engaged with multiple organisations across the agriculture supply chain to help them take advantage of innovative commercial arrangements, ecosystem services and trade premiums that can align impact and commercial incentives.

"Pineapple are at the forefront of the transition, helping to scale the technology we need through radical collaboration. We need more cross sector partnerships that can deliver positive impact for the natural world."

Sasha Dench, UN Ambassador for Migratory Species.

Energy systems

We bring organisations together to scale renewables

Replacing fossil fuels with clean energy is at the heart of the transition to a sustainable future. Every partnership we are involved in at Pineapple includes mechanisms for scaling access to renewables, enabled by digitisation, electrification and energy efficiency. From solar panels in farms and on buildings, to biochar from pineapple leaves and access to innovative IoT smart technologies, we find and prove the shared business models that serve the energy transition. We are on a mission to make clean energy the most cost effective, practical solution and to provide delivery capacity in pursuit of scale.

Pineapple Ventures in Energy:

Our Energy Imagine Lab engages all organisations with high energy capacity needs to consider how to leverage the power of partnership to scale funding and delivery of clean energy technologies.
Our work in place based transition is driving a shift to renewable energy across the built environment and broader land use, through shared business models to reduce upfront costs and scale delivery capacity.
We are supporting businesses across energy-intensive industries, such as industrial manufacturing, to explore new opportunities to leverage innovative financing and partnership working to accelerate the take up of renewables.

"Accelerating action on efficiency and clean technology adoption at scale is key to the transition. I am delighted to be working with the Pineapple team to explore new mechanisms to scale our use of renewables across our operations."

Richard Bennett, Climate Transition Lead, Atlas Copco

Finance

We help design and deliver transition plans for system change

We need around $3 trillion investment per year until 2050 to deliver the transition to a sustainable future. Where investors are committed to the agenda, they often lack the scalable solutions and delivery platforms to put their money to work. Finance providers face a new challenge, to support their clients as leaders of ecosystems, in pursuit of system-level transformations.

At Pineapple, we are working with banks, insurers and investors of all types to deploy the power of partnership through the transition planning process. We are supporting institutions to both imagine new opportunities to deploy finance for the transition and to build and run partnership initiatives that bring these opportunities to life.

""The Pineapple Team is a pleasure to collaborate with, delivering us an original route-to-market strategy in a crowded marketplace, sales with high integrity corporates despite a challenging outlook, and plenty of brand equity in the form of speaking slots at sustainability events. I would highly recommend their bespoke services.
Rupert Robinson, MD Transition Initiatives, Artemeter DRW

At Pineapple Partnerships, we continuously look for new opportunities to accelerate the transition and deliver impact at scale through the power of partnership.

Please reach out to explore how.