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Environment - « Positive Economy »™ strategic advisory

In partnership with BeCitizen, we help our clients design and set up winning strategies based on « Positive Economy »™ principles, which reflect the five major challenges of energy, climate change, resources and waste, health and toxicity, and biodiversity.

By applying Positive Economy™ principles, we also help our clients find new sources of revenue and reduce their costs.

Our services are meant for both public bodies and for industrial companies, multinationals, organisers of innovative projects, and agro-food companies.

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What is « Positive Economy »™ ?
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    Positive Economy™

    Through our work with BeCitizen, a first-tier environmental strategy consultancy, we apply « Positive Economy »™ principles to our various activities.

    « Positive Economy »™ is a concept developed by BeCitizen, whose purpose is to generate economic growth that restores environmental capital, i.e., the environment’s ability to provide resources and services to the economy. The implementation of Positive Economy™ improves the balances of each company and each local government – keeping in mind that global balances are based on lifecycle analysis that take all inputs and outputs into account in products and processes.

    With the global economy in full flux, the companies that endure will be those who have adapted to emerging market forces and have transformed risks into opportunities.

    BeCitizen applies this principle to five key issues, which represent both risks to growth and opportunities for growth :

    Energy :

    Companies, buildings, infrastructures and local governments can become energy-positive by generating power through biofuels, recovered heat and electricity that they can then sell to other economic entities.

    Climate change :

    Companies and local governments can become not just carbon-neutral, but carbon-negative, thus generating value in the form of emission permits that can be traded on voluntary or regulated markets.

    Resources and waste :

    Economic actors who were net consumers yesterday can become net producers tomorrow, with positive balances for water, soil and matter. Resources, which had been a cost item, can become a revenue item for companies that are able, for example, to recycle waste and supply clean water to the local community.

    Biodiversity :

    Economic activities can promote biodiversity. Companies and local governments can roll out solutions to cut costs and risks incurred by the loss of biodiversity and to foster greater biodiversity.

    Health and toxicity :

    Economic activities that once generated pollution will generate a positive health / toxicity balance. The houses, cars and factories of tomorrow will actually clean up the environment.