The Business of Proactive Environmental Management

Several of the world’s largest companies – including Microsoft and Walmart – are making concerted efforts to manage their environmental impacts proactively. Learn more about their carbon reduction initiatives, sustainability practices, and how your company can manage its environmental impact with consulting help from Environmental Works, Inc. (EWI).

Environmental Management and Consulting in Business

Some Sustainability-Minded Companies

Microsoft

Microsoft recently announced one of the most ambitious environmental plans in today’s corporate world. The company is not only going carbon neutral, but carbon negative by 2030. That means the company will reduce its carbon emissions while actively removing carbon from the atmosphere by planting trees and using direct air capture, which pulls carbon out of the atmosphere. The ultimate goal? To free the atmosphere of all of the carbon the company has emitted since its founding in 1975.

Walmart

Walmart is actively involved in a variety of ambitious environmental management initiatives, the most recent of which was dubbed Project Gigaton. Started in 2017, the project hopes to reduce a full gigaton of greenhouse gas emissions from Walmart’s supply chains by 2030. So, what is a gigaton? Think of it as a billion metric tons – in other words, the equivalent of taking 211 million passenger cars off the road for an entire year.

IKEA

IKEA recently pledged to invest about $220 million in reforestation and forest management, as well as transitioning to a more environmentally minded supply chain and using technologies to remove and store carbon.

How Your Company Can Proactively Manage its Environmental Services

Environmental Works partners with several major clients to proactively manage their environmental impact. If your company is interested in proactive environmental management, there are several ways Environmental Works can help:

• Consulting: Since 1992, EWI’s knowledge and experience allows us to provide comprehensive environmental consulting and field services for companies of all shapes and sizes.
• Compliance: At EWI, we realize that compliance doesn’t have to be intimidating – it just needs to be proactively managed. We have a full staff of environmental experts, as well as groundbreaking compliance management software to make things easy on you and your team.
• Environmental Management Services: We offer comprehensive environmental management services including risk assessments, which are a key component of environmental regulatory decisions. We also offer remediation and emergency services.

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If you have questions about environmental management in business, Environmental Works is here to help. Whether you need site remediation or general guidance on environmentally friendly best practices, our team has the resources to help your business. To learn more about our environmental management services, please click here to contact us online.