Sustainability and environmental services
Helping you align resilience, productivity and growth with sustainability.
If you are looking to improve the environmental performance of your business, Green Economy is here to help.
We help businesses to accelerate decarbonisation with consultancy, training and analysis that delivers long term resilience, environmental credibility and financial savings.
Many of our services are free or delivered through fully funded programmes.
Whether you are looking for support on a specific project, or an independent partner to offer holistic end-to-end advice, we're here to help you achieve your sustainability and commercial objectives.
Define your carbon footprint, establish your benchmark or validate your Scope 1, 2 and 3 reporting with support from Green Economy. Our consultants can manage the project or provide you with tools to manage in house.
Upskill your workforce, understand your net zero obligations and implement effective carbon reduction plans with training from Green Economy.
I’d urge any business to engage the Green Economy team to bring a fresh perspective into tackling rising energy costs and the net zero challenge.”
"The team at Green Economy have been instrumental to our business investments in Carbon Reduction technologies.
"Their help, advice and mentoring is not only well placed but also thought provoking to ensure that best practice and return on investment combine to fully deliver for our business."
“Working with Green Economy has helped us take a clear and practical approach to sustainability.
"The carbon reduction plan was straightforward and realistic, with actions we can actually implement. We now have more confidence in our data, a clearer plan in place, and are better positioned to demonstrate our sustainability commitments going forward.”
Rochdale-based clean air technology developers teamed up with Green Economy to devise methodologies that worked for their ESG goals as well as those of their clients.
Tibard, a textile manufacturer based in Dukinfield, received support from Green Economy and access to funding for a new embroidery machine and solar panels.
Support from Sustainability and Net Zero Consultants has helped the business remove 523 tonnes of carbon from their operations and energy consumption.
Online retailers musicMagpie made huge savings on their energy bills following specialist support from Green Economy consultants.
Expert, impartial advice to reduce carbon, boost your competitiveness and save your business money.
Support includes one-to-one support from a specialist consultant, resource efficiency reviews, supply chain mapping, and access to funding and technologies.
This project is funded by UK Government through the GM Integrated Settlement, and delivered in partnership with Greater Manchester Combined Authority, Bee Net Zero and GM Business Growth Hub.
For more than a decade we've helped businesses understand their carbon footprint, implement effective carbon reduction plans and drive change including:
C02e saved
Businesses supported
Cost savings for businesses
Jobs created or safeguarded
Waste diverted from landfill
Access guidance and resources to help you reduce carbon, improve your environmental credentials and save your business money.
No matter the size of your operation, there are a range of low and no cost solutions to reducing your energy consumption and save your business money.
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The UK has a legally binding commitment to achieve net zero by 2050, with the business base being responsible for about a third of emissions. As such all businesses have a role to play in reducing energy demand and implementing solutions that eliminates carbon from their supply chain.
Eliminating or reducing your businesses reliance on carbon will not only save your business money, but will also help you to offer more competitive pricing, and could provide access to new supply chains.
Green Economy works with businesses to measure and benchmark your carbon footprint, presenting you with an action plan of priorities that will reduce your energy use and eliminate unnecessary consumption. We can help you understand your environmental obligations and implement a carbon reduction plan which will save your business money and improve your credibility with customers. We can recommend energy consulting or energy management technology that will help you to manage this in the long term. In addition, we can also help you to understand renewable energy, sustainable heating and other green technologies which can reduce your reliance on increasingly volatile energy markets.
Understanding the full lifecycle of your products and services forms an essential part of developing your carbon footprint but also offers a competitive advantage as increasing numbers of consumers and large businesses look to work with providers that offer more sustainable solutions.
Our teams can work with you to consider the carbon footprint of your products and services and help you to embed sustainability in product and service design.
We demystify green technologies, advise on likely return on investment and connect you to local, trusted experts to assist with feasibility and installation. We can help you secure buy-in from board, c-suite or financial directors, and help you to influence landlords or property managers of the long-term impact that retrofitting can have on the value of a property. We can also connect you to green finance or funding opportunities that will support capital expenditure and decision making.
Demonstrating your commitment to decarbonisation offers a commercial incentive to attract new customers and open up new supply chains. Increasingly customers require providers to demonstrate ESG credentials and carbon reduction plans, particularly when working with public sector organisations and tier one supply chains.
Green Economy can help you to develop a robust environmental policy and carbon reduction plan to demonstrate your commitment to external stakeholders, whilst providing a path to follow for your workforce and strategic planning.
There is increased demand to decarbonise existing infrastructures across transport, housing, buildings and communications networks. This is achieved by retrofitting existing systems to improve their efficiency and utilising smart technologies to futureproof their sustainability in the long term. In addition, new developments are under increased scrutiny to ensure that sustainable construction methods are utilised during the planning, development and operation stages.
Green Economy can support these projects by understanding the capabilities of decarbonising major infrastructure projects and connecting you to subcontractors that can deliver for you.
Bringing your team with you on your sustainability journey is not only good for morale, but it can also accelerate action for little to no cost. By ensuring your team is bought into your plan, will ensure advocacy with internal and external audiences, implement change at a local level and ultimately help you achieve net zero much faster.
Through training or consultant support, our teams work with businesses to impart the knowledge and skills to engage teams, manage change and deliver corporate responsibility.
