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Esty Environmental Partners works with companies to create business advantage from environmental strategies.  This work involves bringing our broad-based research and analytic skills to bear to help companies:

• Define and understand the environmental challenges they face.
• Evaluate current environmental efforts and benchmark results.
• Highlight industry best practices in environmental/sustainability/stewardship strategy.
• Create environmental management systems.
• Provide environmental training, and support management team efforts to develop eco-advantage.
• Map stakeholders and evaluate potential partnerships.
• Develop integrated strategies geared to add value and generate competitive advantage.
• Guide implementation of environmental strategies.

Our approach builds on the analysis, frameworks, tools, and best practices developed during over 20 years of work with Fortune 500 companies, in-depth academic research on hundreds of businesses, and two decades of environmental policy experience.     

Our services include:

• Conducting a corporate environmental strategy "checkup"
• Environmental issue spotting
• Understanding and engaging stakeholders
• Developing an eco-strategy
• Implementing an eco-strategy
• Creating comprehensive environmental communication programs
• Implementing eco-innovation and eco-product design methods
• Building an eco-advantage culture
• Setting up an environmental advisory board
• Environmental benchmarking and performance tracking
• Developing environmental reports
• Providing expert testimony

Deriving competitive advantage from environmental strategy is like many other business initiatives: succeeding requires a clear strategy, focus, and disciplined execution.  Working with structured frameworks, and understanding and adopting best practices, greatly increases a company's likelihood of a positive payoff. Today, a rigorously developed environmental strategy is essential to achieving business success.