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Sustainability

Helping companies in their transition to more sustainable business models

Sustainability is everyone’s responsibility. We help you turn the challenges of moving to a more sustainable business model into an economic opportunity for your company and to navigate the challenges turning your business greener, more socially sustainable.

Tailor-made sustainability support

Across Europe, we have specialised business advisors with expertise in sustainability-related matters. They can help you identify the best ways to benefit from a more sustainable business model. Based on a thorough assessment of the needs and challenges of your company they provide tailored advice and tap into EEN’s vast potential to find innovation partners, new green technologies, and market opportunities for sustainable solutions.

We cooperate closely with other support providers near you who focus on some of the more technical aspects of turning your business more sustainable and will link you up with them if needed.

Specialised services

We can provide you with professional advice on issues such as:

  • sustainable and circular business models

  • innovation and technologies for greener, cleaner, more sustainable business models

  • energy and resource efficiency

  • waste management

  • water management

  • sustainable finance

  • EU certification schemes such as the EU Ecolabel32 or EMAS33

  • EU legislation and standards, including due diligence and reporting requirements

Save money with better energy efficiency

High energy prices, uncertain long-term supply and the huge environmental impact of fossil energy consumption mean that it has never been more attractive – or more important – for companies to become more energy-efficient and to switch to more renewable energy sources.

We are ready to help you save money, reduce your environmental footprint, and become less vulnerable to future energy market disruptions or price fluctuations. How? By sketching a detailed path for you to reduce your energy consumption, increase energy efficiency and rely on renewable energies as much as possible.  

We’ll also point you to possible funding opportunities.   

If you want to get a taste of how our support looks like, you can check:

The list of short-term measures to save and substitute energy at companies

Besides medium to long-term strategies to guide companies through the transformation of their energy systems, recommendations for quick and easy energy saving measures are currently of great importance.

In this view, our energy experts have prepared a list of such short-term measures based on the work done by the German Initiative Energieeffizienz- und Klimaschutz-Netzwerke. This list presents 150 energy-efficient measures which can be implemented quickly by SMEs, without big investments.

Catalogue of energy solutions

Our energy experts have also collected technical and service solutions offered by innovative SMEs across Europe, which perfectly cover the most pressing energy needs.

The catalogue contains more than 70 intelligent solutions and can be adopted by private enterprises and public institutions.

Linked to this catalogue, additional information is available on EU funding opportunities that support the implementation of energy efficient/energy saving measures and/or renewable energies.