Our customers have a fundamental commitment and responsibility to their stakeholders to deliver profitable operations. Today, they recognize that a number of key drivers of their cost base are linked to a proper engagement with sustainability.
These include:
- Increasing energy costs
- Increasing resource costs, especially water
- Changing legislation worldwide
- Changing community attitudes
- Increased costs and obligations of environmental and social compliance
- Volatility in markets and politico-economic conditions in some regions
WorleyParsons has launched EcoNomics™ with a very strong portfolio of services, deep experience around the world and some important proprietary technologies. Yet we realize that many of the solutions and much of the opportunity will be developed through working with our customers to provide tailored responses to unfolding situations.
EcoNomics™ is a careful balance of green and black. However, it is clear that driving efficiency, reducing impact and creating sustainable assets is good for business and good for the environment. In this sense green IS black.
Through links with leading research institutions, scientific organizations and industry groups, we are able to overlay our internal capabilities with access to emerging technologies and link to the latest thinking supporting sustainable developments. One example of such a link is our sponsorship of the WorleyParsons lectureship in Environmental Engineering and Climate Change at Imperial College, London.
The future for our business will be impacted deeply by these changes, as it will be for our customers’. It is our absolute conviction that these impacts can be positive – creating opportunities for innovation, efficiency and improvement in both the financial and ecological performance of business.