Using Market Forces for Social and Environmental Progress
As public consciousness becomes increasingly aware of the state of the world’s poor and the effect of consumption patterns on the environment, blended value business propositions become increasingly important. While the goal of alleviating rural poverty and conserving biodiversity with market forces is now broadly sought after, in practice the process can be extremely challenging.
Identifying and acting on market opportunities that will benefit the poor and conserve wild nature is one the most important challenges facing the public sector.
Traditional business consultants have a limited understanding of the social and ecological implications of their advice; scientists are often limited by their business understanding. Consequently, many development projects focus primarily on economic outcomes and the majority of biodiversity conservation projects fail to consider market forces.
We provide high quality economic and environmental advice that will allow you to identify and act upon market triple bottom line opportunities. We like to roll up our sleeves and dig into the accounting and financials, sales and marketing management, operations, legal, and wherever else needs attention.
Finally, we make our advice economical so it can be delivered at an early strategic stage and add value. Our experience in the areas of nature conservation and business development provides a valuable resource that will benefit your organization.
We have a broad base of experience to draw from, having spent time working in the following areas:
- Biodiversity Conservation
- Green technology
- Manufacturing
- Economic Development
- Printing
- Real Estate
- Sustainable Packaging
- Telecom
- Ecological & Socio-economic Monitoring
- Computer hardware and software
- Green consumer electronics
- Distribution
- e-commerce
