Omkar Pethkar

VERTIVER

Vertiver is a sustainability consultancy that develops strategic communications and behavior change tools to enable effective action on climate change, natural resource conservation and related social and environmental issues. We work with multi stakeholder groups to facilitate participatory approaches and partnerships to achieve sustainability goals. Our primarily clients include development agencies, central and state governments, businesses and research organizations seeking to create long term impact on climate change adaptation and mitigation, forest conservation, biodiversity protection, sustainable agriculture, circular economy, public health, nature based solutions and related sectors. Our multi-disciplinary approach is informed by Indo-US expertise in communications, policy research, behavior change strategy, clean technology and environmental finance experience with various national and international partners. We develop multi-disciplinary science based communications approaches for engagement and develop tools such as mobile apps, learning management systems, infographics https://www.linkedin.com/redir/general-malware-page?url=et%2eal%2e etc to support strategic sustainability communications. We have designed and built platforms to disseminate climate research, facilitated various policy and business dialogues, developed innovative toolkits for climate action, conducted research on sustainable agriculture, lead national-level studies on forest conservation and nature based solutions and designed visual resources on various topics to communicate with multiple-stakeholder groups.