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Sustainability consulting and environmental services

4U Engineering Consultant’s strategic sustainability consulting and environmental services

4U Engineering Consultant’s Sustainability Consulting advisory team offers practical and tailored support to help clients mitigate risks, capture opportunities and fulfil their business objectives connected to sustainability, no matter where they are in their sustainability journey.

By combining management consulting, engineering, design, sector competence, and tech development, 4U Engineering Consultants provides actionable solutions that go beyond reporting to ensure measurable impact and real change.

As a consulting leader in the energy, bioindustry and infrastructure sectors, 4U Engineering Consultants guides major players through the net-zero transition. Our in-depth expertise in industrial processes place us at the forefront as a key strategic partner for companies facing the challenges brought about by the net zero targets for 2050, the biodiversity crisis and social injustice worldwide.

Our team of dedicated sustainability management consultants works in close collaboration with a wide network of experts across 4U Engineering Consultants to address challenges and opportunities along sustainability topics such as climate change, decarbonisation, circular economy, biodiversity, nature-based solutions, water challenges, and social responsibility through:  

  • Market analysis and research  

  • Sustainability strategy and reporting  

  • Sustainable operations and transformation  

  • Transactions and sustainable finance  

At 4U Engineering Consultants, our unique capabilities are based on a long history in industries such as energy, manufacturing, pulp, paper, packaging, wood products, forestry, renewable fuels, food and pharma, waste and circularity, future cities, automotive as well as mining and metals. With a strong foothold in Europe, 4U Engineering Consultants continues to strengthen its presence in its home market and globally, leveraging its deep sector expertise and knowledge of the solutions needed to achieve a net-zero and nature positive future.

Our extensive network among companies, academia, and authorities in various sectors provides us with a valuable resource for many projects. We can support global companies worldwide using our local staff in 50+ markets, who have in-depth knowledge of the local context, culture and language. Our experts possess a deep understanding of the latest news regarding sustainability, thanks to our involvement in research activities, including our close collaboration with Oxford University and several other leading institutions.

Our sustainability services cover a wide range of disciplines in:

Sustainability

  • Strategies
  • Regulations and policies
  • SDG scanning
  • Assessments and calculations
  • Impact measurement and evaluation
  • Improvements
  • Training
  • Related advisory services

Biodiversity

  • Capacity building: Understanding a company’s sphere of influence, economic impacts and dependencies on nature, overview about biodiversity policy and stakeholder landscape, data requirements)
  • Sector-level rapid biodiversity risk screening
  • Assessment of biodiversity risks in supply and value chain
  • Biodiversity due diligence and red flag reports
  • Corporate biodiversity action plans
  • Natural Capital accounting
  • Asset-level assessment of biodiversity risks
  • Nature positive business: Biodiversity strategy, governance model, stakeholder and supply chain management
  • Development of biodiversity databases and data governance
  • Alignment of company strategy with Science-based Targets for Nature (SBTN) and IUCN corporate biodiversity guidelines
  • Risk reporting in alignment with Task Force on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD)

Climate Change

  • Strategies and roadmaps
  • Risk assessments
  • Carbon footprint and handprint, Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), Environmental Product Declaration (EPD)
  • Emission reduction programs
  • Reporting of climate-related financial information
  • Greenhouse gas inventories
  • Related advisory services

Circular Economy

  • Strategies
  • Eco-design
  • Roadmaps and action plans
  • Circular business models and ecosystems
  • Circular business potential and market trends
  • Value chain and logistics
  • Material analysis
  • Resource and material efficiency
  • Areal development plans
  • Measuring circularity

Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG)

  • Strategies and governance
  • ESG and Environment, Health & Safety (EHS) due diligence processes
  • Reporting systems, non-financial KPI’s
  • Support for external ratings
  • Financier’s requirements
  • Lenders advisory
  • Management systems and EHS audits
  • Related advisory services

Environment

  • Land use and urban planning
  • Environmental impact assessments
  • Permit risk management
  • Environmental, water and chemical permitting
  • Site screening
  • Field studies
  • Stakeholder engagement
  • Waste management and contaminated soil management
  • REACH

Social Responsibility & Supply Chains

  • Social responsibility strategies
  • Stakeholder engagement
  • Product stewardship
  • Sustainable supply chain management
  • Capacity building for suppliers
  • Supply chain risk assessment
  • Supplier Pre-Screenings
  • Supplier audits
  • Sustainable procurement (ISO 20400)
  • Social due diligence (ESDD) and social impact assessment (SIA)
  • Supply chain due diligence (Supply Chain Due Diligence Act – Germany)
  • Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence (CSDD Directive – Europe)
  • EU Taxonomy Minimum Safeguards
  • ESG Ratings services for supplier sustainability

Global challenges such as climate change, water scarcity, deforestation, virgin material extraction, loss of biodiversity and social challenges are negatively impacting people, the planet and business. The world must cut carbon emissions in half by 2030 and reach net zero by 2050, which is a huge undertaking given that we almost already are on a trajectory to surpass the 1.5 degree limit. At the same time, our way of living is reducing our wildlife population rapidly and on average 69% of the population is already extinct.  

In this decade of action, corporations, investors and governmental organisations need trustworthy partners who not only can help them analyse the current situation and develop transition strategies to help them reach their and the global goals, but they also need a partner to help them realise these strategies and develop the technological solutions needed to enable real and lasting change.  

This is why we at 4U Engineering Consultants are making it easier for our clients and partners worldwide to engage the right experts at the right time, by taking the steps to connect our 1000+ sustainability, environmental and social experts across the globe through the formation of a focused and highly experienced management consulting team that is solely focused on solving the sustainability challenges of today. With 4U Engineering Consultants as a partner, delivering real sustainability actions is possible, not only setting targets and scenarios.  

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