DevEco Consulting

Agriculture is a fundamental sector fulfilling the basic requirements of all mankind. It provides the food we eat and uses the natural assets that surround us in this process. It is proven that agricultural practices have determining impact on the healthiness of soil, water, landscape and biodiversity, and greatly influence air quality. And for the last couple of years, unfortunately, green indicators in agriculture show red flags both in statuses and tendency. Its role is so important, that the conditions of how agricultural activities may be pursued are mostly controlled centrally […]

Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) is a compulsory element of policy and strategy planning. It is a strong means of promoting green aspects in long term planning and financing programs. It has a well-established set of rules to adhere to, and includes strong partnership involvement. Its purpose is both fairly simple and crucial: to assess the plans from an environmental perspective so that they fit to and support better the addressing of environmental challenges and do as little harm to the environment as possible.According to EU Commission regulations, SEAs have similar […]

This year, we have already had the opportunity to work with two of the worlds largest car manufacturers. The assignment was clear in both cases: they set out to manufacture in ideally a carbon-free, but at least a carbon neutral way and they contracted us to explore on-site opportunities for carbon free or carbon neutral energy production for their plants.It may be important at this point to make a clear distinction between carbon neutral and carbon free.Carbon neutral means that an operation uses carbon, but you make all efforts to […]

We seldom write project proposals. But when we do with our partners, then it is something big, interesting and undoubtedly worth the effort.In 2020 we won EUR 7 million for a large energy company to establish a green hydrogen plant in Hungary that should assist balancing the electricity network in the middle of the accelerating green transition.Back in 2020, things did not seem as urgent and pressing in green energy transition as they are now. We did not have a war going on that changed everything, also in the energy […]

We had a great undertaking sooner this year. We have always had the intention to assist companies on their journey in green transition. For big companies, this is much easier: they have intention, interest, competence, money. Yet, for the small ones, these are not obvious at all.Big companies usually want to go from good to great, while small ones yearn to catch up to a moderate level at least. There is a clear market gap for the smallest companies, and there is no real business interest at the private consulting […]