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Ecopath Practice Areas
From green IT to resource efficiency, carbon management to regulatory compliance, Ecopath brings together AEA’s decades of environmental consulting experience and expertise.
Ecopath practice areas as outlined below
Carbon management and reporting
We’ll show you how to quickly achieve significant reductions in your carbon footprint and design energy saving into your long-term, cost-reduction strategy. Drawing on our extensive experience, this will reach into all areas of your business, starting with low carbon opportunities and the quick wins you can achieve in the first months of your business transformation.
In the medium term, we’ll develop a carbon abatement cost curve that can be used to prioritise and drive your future investment strategy, effecting change in transport, energy usage, energy sourcing, behaviour and corporate policy.
We’ll help to ensure that your environment-related business investments generate returns for you, rather than turning out to be disappointing white elephants.
Key benefit: Typical savings in this area are 4-10% of annual energy costs, per intervention round.
Behaviour change
Underpinning the strategies we develop, our behaviour change programmes will develop a culture of efficiency within your business and maximise savings for the long term. At the end of the day, it is your people who will drive your savings, through their decisions and their behaviour. AEA has a long track record in managing organisational behaviour change. Through Ecopath, we’ll use this experience to implement company-wide initiatives that reach out to your staff and help ensure that every member of your team is motivated and committed to their role in ongoing cost savings.
Key benefit: Typical savings in this area are 2-7% of annual energy costs.
Corporate sustainability strategy
This will help to maximise the benefits of your environmental improvements throughout all the areas and functions of your business. We’ll show you how to take advantage of your progress, not only through cost savings, but also by improving your brands, your products and your people’s sense of value of their work.
Key benefit: Long term security.
Transport
Through driver training, behaviour change programmes and fleet performance monitoring systems, we can help you to quickly cut the costs of running your fleet - and to lock them in for the long term. Then, through vehicle technology reviews and fuel strategy development, we can show you where further cost-saving opportunities exist. As the Department for Transport’s lead consultancy for technical advice on environmental issues, we deliver environmental improvements in ways that generate real, sustainable and commercial benefits.
Key benefit: Typical saving of up to 12% on annual fuel costs.
Investment
Whether its through due diligence on current finance plans, assisting with emissions reporting or finding investment opportunities, such as getting on to the FTSE4Good Indices and taking part in UNFCCC JI/CDM projects, we’ll help ensure you are ready to take advantage of environmental investment opportunities. And we’ll give you the audited backing to help get eco-investors involved in your business.
Key benefit: Financial security and power.
Chemical safety and risk management
We’ll review how dangerous goods affect your business; how best to increase safety for staff, users, customers and supply chain partners; and how to reduce the risk posed by chemicals to people and the environment.
We’ll take care of your requirements in emergency response handling (including worldwide multilingual response and spill modelling), chemical safety document management (including COSHH and SDS), chemical hazard training (including awareness and practical response) and compliance (including REACH, GHS and ADR).
Our experience and technical capabilities in this area alone can save you up to 50% on the cost of internal solutions.
Key benefits: Staying compliant and reducing the risk of chemical incidents.
Regulatory compliance
As one of Europe’s leading consultancies on environmental regulations, we’ll use our knowledge to assess the immediate impact on your business from regulation. We’ll also provide horizon scanning to assess your medium and long-term opportunities and threats.
Key benefits: Reducing risk and staying compliant.
Resource efficiency
We’ll develop a resource efficiency plan that shows you how sustainability can penetrate every area of your business, bringing substantial cost savings through an agreed programme of practical resource savings and staff behavioural change initiatives.
Key benefit: Typical savings in this area are 2%-20% of resource costs.
Green IT
Countless innovations in hardware, software, processors and networking continue to promise new cost-reduction opportunities. With vast, rapidly changing choices and complex technical options to consider, we’ll help you to make informed and independent decisions so that you can be confident your IT investments are the right ones, happen at the right time and deliver maximum return on investment.
Key benefit: 10%-20% energy cost savings.