Awareness around the issues microplastics cause in the marine environment has continued to grow over the past 12 months, however businesses are often overlooked in the discussion. To combat this, we have been working with Earthwatch Europe to put together guidance on how to help businesses respond to microplastics and [...]
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A new report, published by the European Commission’s Directorate General for the Environment, estimates that the cost to EU Member States of not implementing environmental law in 2018 was around €55 billion. This is the result of Member States not fully achieving the targets set out by EU environmental legislations [...]
Στις 8 Απριλίου 2019 έγιναν τα εγκαίνια του γραφείου Νοτιανατολικής Ευρώπης, με έδρα την Αθήνα Η δεξίωση πραγματοποιήθηκε στην Αίγλη Ζαππείου με πλήθος προσκεκλημένων. Χαιρετισμό απηύθυνε ο υφυπουργός Περιβάλλοντος και Ενέργειας Σωκράτης Φ στοουσία δεκάθε άμελλος που καλωσόρισε την Eunomia στην Ελλάδα. Ο William Neale, σύμβουλος για θέματα Κυκλικής Οικονομίας [...]
Darebin City Council (DCC) in Melbourne, Australia were the first in the world to declare a climate emergency in December 2016. We have been appointed to help the council to determine what practical actions they can take to meaningfully reduce the amount of carbon that they currently emit through their [...]
We are working alongside Bureau Veritas (BV), AECOM and Hertfordshire County Council (HCC) to help Broxbourne Borough Council develop air quality plans. The European Ambient Air Quality Directives specify the concentration of air pollutants that are acceptable for air quality to be at a healthy level. Countries across Europe, including [...]
On 25th March two of our leading sustainability consultants led a sold-out session at the Greater Manchester Green City Summit on reducing plastic waste. The event took part in the Public Sector Space in parallel with the wider GM Green Summit, with the space focusing on inspiring the public sector [...]
In March 2019 our consultants led two days of workshops in Brussels to gather ideas, facilitate discussions and canvass industry opinions for two studies that we are currently undertaking for the European Commission. One of these reports relates to the development of Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) (covering packaging, waste electrical [...]
We have partnered with the award-winning campaign Refill, Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA), United Utilities and Bury Council to install two new water fountains in Bury, Manchester. The community fountains have been installed by GMCA as part of a pilot scheme with Refill, the campaign to prevent plastic pollution by [...]
We have been appointed as the sole contractor for Zero Waste Scotland (ZWS) in a two-year framework to carry out waste collection options appraisals for Scottish local authorities. ZWS is funded to support the delivery of the Scottish Government’s circular economy strategy – including an ambitious recycling target of 70% [...]
Our report with the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has estimated that up to 10% of the Electronic and Electrical Equipment (EEE) bought on digital marketplaces in Europe avoid contributing to legislation designed to compensate for the environmental burden of these products. The sellers of products that avoid [...]
