October '07 article: "Climate change consultancies: who will survive the boom?"

ClimateChangeCorp.com

Just how many companies, government agencies and NGOs are involved in corporate environmental services worldwide is a matter of conjecture: Google “environmental consulting firms” and you will be presented with links to more than 20 million web pages. No statutory qualification is needed to offer such services, and they may in any case be as diverse as the sources of their clients’ greenhouse gases.

Last year, US market revenue for the top 200 firms in the environmental consulting field totalled US$42.2 billion, up 12.5% over 2006.
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Jon Price, sales director of the UK-based Carbon Neutral Company, told a recent motor dealers’ conference that it took four to five weeks to calculate a single-site car retailer’s carbon footprint, inclusive of its employees’ commuting habits, and a further three to four weeks to implement appropriate decisions.

Charges for consultancy on this scale are clearly beyond many small companies’ budgets; for them, generic carbon calculators, government advisory schemes and adherence to industry-standard best practice must suffice.