Environmental and biodiversity consulting

Our client, a food manufacturer, wanted to systematically assess the sustainability of its products as part of its CSR commitments.

To achieve this, our team developed an objective and quantifiable methodology for assessing the sustainability and environmental impact of our client’s product portfolio. This assessment was implemented in a dedicated, flexible and automated tool, enabling our client’s team to dynamically measure changes in the sustainability of existing products, as well as assessing the sustainability of new products.

This methodology and tool have not only enabled our customer to meet its CSR commitment, but also to gain an insight into the sustainability of its new products, enabling it to identify the sensitive points of its products so that it can innovate. In addition, generating this data gave them material for internal and external communication.

Our team supported a chemical company generating ash through its activity in its valorization strategy. As part of a circularity initiative, this industrial player wanted to valorize these wastes being produced throughout the world.

We first established ‘product sheets’ describing the performances associated with these new materials, before analyzing more than 10 industrial sectors to identify relevant applications according to pre-identified performance criteria. We then directly contacted the manufacturers concerned and validated their interest.

The result for our client? A list of new qualified partners ready to test the products offered.

Alcimed supported an environmental player in putting together a presentation pack for a technological platform for sorting waste as part of a Call for Expression of Interest.

This involved our team coaching the editorial team for several weeks on the management of the project and more particularly on the overall structuring of the pack, particularly at the offer level. At the same time, our team carried out a market study of the impact of the platform to help determine the possible pricing of the services offered.

This meant that our client was able to adapt their project to the requirements linked to the formalism imposed by the exercise, to submit a complete and finalized pack.

We worked on rethinking the clinical trials of a healthcare actor in order to limit their environmental impacts.

To achieve this, our teams first estimated the six main environmental effects of clinical trials after identifying and modeling the standard stages of such trials, including drug and personnel transportation, accommodation, waste management, devices, and data. Next, we modeled traditional scenarios to quantitatively evaluate their respective environmental footprints and identify the key contributors. To do so, we developed an interactive tool that calculates these impacts based on various environmental endpoints such as carbon footprint, water impact, biodiversity, and more.

Finally, based on this analysis, our teams were able to recommend the best ways for the client to optimize the transformation of clinical trials from an environmental perspective. We also provided a communication plan to facilitate the internal and external dissemination of these changes.

In the context of the transition to electric mobility, we supported an environmental actor specializing in the collection of automotive waste to help them anticipate the impact of this transition on their business.

A comprehensive prospective analysis of the automotive market, the objectives of manufacturers, suppliers, garages, collection sites, and recycling facilities, as well as the current regulations, allowed us to estimate the evolution of the typology and volumes of waste that our client will have to manage by 2035. We also analyzed the value chains associated with battery production, identified potential recyclable products, and assessed the role of various stakeholders (such as gigafactories and new production units established by manufacturers).

This analysis enabled us to help our client adjust their positioning in this emerging market.

An eco-organisation wanted to have a better understanding of the possibilities for incorporating recycled materials so that it could define the right support for its manufacturers.

For this project, we intervened on two levels:

• At the industry level, by carrying out an inventory of the markets concerned: typologies of players, assessment of French production and imports, assessment of associated deposits, identification of families of materials.
• At stakeholder level, by conducting interviews with different types of stakeholder (producers, importers, distributors) to gain a better understanding of the opportunities, risks and obstacles to integrating recycled materials.

In addition to recycling issues, we also looked at questions of eco-design and the durability of items.

This study provided our customer with the information they needed to consider the mechanisms that could be put in place to support the industry.

Alcimed helped its client, an international aerospace player, to assess greenhouse gas emissions downstream of its space systems, as well as to draw up a more global picture of its environmental and societal impact.

To achieve this, our team worked within a consortium to first identify all downstream emissions from two space systems and carry out qualitative assessments of their impact on climate and the environment. The consortium then developed a methodology capable of estimating the emissions avoided and induced by a satellite. Finally, the team was able to successfully apply the methodology to two satellite programs in the course of two case studies aimed at calculating the greenhouse gas emissions of each.

Our recommendations have enabled our customer to continue assessing and reducing its greenhouse gas emissions, and to identify the areas on which to focus efforts to reduce its environmental footprint.

In order to improve the performance of its equipment and offer new services to its customers, a manufacturer wanted to add a digital layer to the equipment it was producing and be able to use the data. However, they were also concerned about the carbon footprint of the new equipment and the digital overlay.

We therefore helped this player to study the impact of this digitalisation, aimed at replacing mechanical components with IT components (such as servers), by establishing different development scenarios.

We helped them optimise their IT installations and define action plans to limit the carbon footprint of the new intelligent equipment.