Verdantix Green Quadrant Underscores Importance Of Integrated Environmental Services Providers In Fulfilling Boardroom Sustainability Pledges

Verdantix Green Quadrant Underscores Importance Of Integrated Environmental Services Providers In Fulfilling Boardroom Sustainability Pledges

The 2024 Verdantix Green Quadrant on environmental services evaluated the capabilities of nine environmental services firms. Our research included an analysis of vendor responses to a 58-point questionnaire, a 90-minute live briefing, desk research and findings from our global corporate survey of 300 senior EHS executives. What are the key insights from the GQ benchmark of environmental services providers?

A number of firms can deploy environmental consulting resources across a broad range of specializations
Of the nine services firms in the Green Quadrant study, four vendors—Arcadis, ERM, Jacobs and WSP – demonstrated the most advanced all-round environmental services capabilities. WSP, with its prominent acquisitions of Golder and Wood’s Environment & Infrastructure business, showcased the strongest services capabilities – with particular strengths in biodiversity and natural resource protection, remediation and regeneration, and hazardous waste and pollutions management. The strong capabilities exhibited by numerous vendors indicates the well-established nature of players in the market.

Clients look for providers that can offer end-to-end support of integrated environmental sustainability projects
Businesses and government agencies are facing greater pressure to deliver sustainability improvements and build resilience to environmental risks. To achieve this, firms must balance numerous environmental initiatives, ranging from solidifying compliance management to the construction of sustainable infrastructure, operational optimization and habitat restoration. Environmental services providers possess a broad range of consulting specializations – engineering, construction, design, strategy consulting – to offer clients support from project inception in the boardroom to execution in the field.

Consulting providers continually innovate to provide better client outcomes within environmental consulting service lines
Services firms continue to innovate delivery methods of traditional environmental consulting areas to differentiate from competitors and improve project outcomes for customers. The largest vector for innovation within environmental services is digital tools. Services providers have invested heavily to buttress their digital capabilities, both organically and through the acquisition of specialist software vendors. Digitally enabled services offerings can range from deploying business intelligence tools to update stakeholders on project progress to specialist tools like ERM’s emissions.AI, which assess operational data and optimizes to reduce energy consumption and emissions (see Verdantix Smart Innovators: Digitally Enabled EHS Field Services)

To learn more about nine of the most prominent environmental services firms in the market, read the full report, Verdantix Green Quadrant: Environmental Services 2024.