Environmental auditing and reporting,
Economic analysis and environmental accounting,
Public sector environmental programs,
Environment-related small business consultancy,
Environmental corporate research.Our culture is changing to embrace a new sense of ecological responsibility. Enterprises which ignore this change - or respond inadequately to it - do so at their peril.
Genuine regard for the environment is no longer the province of pressure groups. It has entered the hearts and minds of mainstream Australia. Almost 75 per cent of Australian adults cite environmental matters as their major concern for the future. Over 60 per cent want to use more goods and services environment friendly (and are prepared to pay a premium for them).
In the corporate area, a survey of the investment community by the Institute of Chartered Accountants showed that 63 per cent regarded the auditing of environmental disclosures by public companies as important to highly important, and 68 per cent of users of annual reports want more environmental disclosure (but only 24 per cent of the companies surveyed produce annual environmental reports).
Governments of all political persuasions are reflecting this change. Increasingly, environmental criteria are becoming key determinants in both the direction of policy and the day-to-day operations of the public sector. The same thinking is being extended outwards into the private sector by education and regulation.
Clearly, the time is right for all organisations to understand and embrace their environmental obligations. Both public policy and public opinion demand it.
Meeting these obligations can sometimes provoke fundamental change. Sometimes it requires considerable technical and scientific effort.
But whatever the response, there is one constant - the need to apply sound management practices to environmental responsibilities.
Ecobusiness Consultants was established to provide advise and assistance at the interface between enterprise and the environment. We provide a range of services in management, finance, marketing, research and technical areas:
Environmental auditing and reporting: Services for large and medium-sized corporations, including the development of criteria and reporting procedures, information gathering and analysis, benchmarking, management planning, report preparation and presentation. We can provide specific services and/ or overall project management on a consultancy basis, recruit and co-ordinate specialist technical and other consultants, provide guidelines for existing staff and modify or streamline international procedures.
Economic analysis and environmental accounting:Economic analysis of environment-related projects and the impact of environment-related decisions on other operations. We are at the forefront of development in environmental accounting techniques and standards.
Public sector environmental programs: Advise and services for Federal, State and Local Government bodies in the development, management accounting and marketing of environment programs.
Environment-related small business consultancy: A full range of management, accounting services for small businesses which provide environmental goods or services, which operate in the the environmental sector, or which have key principles of environmentalism as integral parts of their policies and processes.
Environmental corporate research: Research on the environmental performance and policies of Australian companies and consultancy services on these issues to fund managers, security dealers and environmental organisations.
Contact: Ecobusiness Consultants Pty Ltd
ACN 007 962 263
Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Level 10, 50 Pirie Street,
Adelaide, South Australia, 5000, Australia
Telephone +61+(0)8 8211 8171
Facsimile +61+(0)8 8212 6170
E-mail Lou de Leeuw at lou@ecobusiness.com.au
