About Pro Enviro

Pro Enviro Ltd is a multi-disciplinary consultancy which specialises in low carbon technologies, low carbon skills and resource efficiency.

With international roots, Pro Enviro have a national influence over the policies, strategies and skills that companies need to progress towards a low carbon economy. Our knowledge portfolio is rooted in the energy-expertise of our Managing Director, Nersi Salehi, and his 30-year career. This extends from his role in the growing oil and gas industry of the 1970s, through on-going involvement in energy technology to 1994, when he established Pro Enviro. After a more than decade of operating across three continents, Pro Enviro foresaw the environmental trends and relinquished international energy management to concentrate on developing the UK low carbon technology and skills sectors, .

Market Development

Our missionary zeal is helping the UK move towards a minimal carbon-base. We seek to help every size and type of business respond to complex legislative challenges created by an ever-increasing range of environmental and business targets and regulations, whilst also improving companies overall business performance.

To do this we have developed key processes – such as Resource Efficiency Diagnostic Tools, Carbon Indexing and EnviroTrack – that reflect our strategic approach to on-going business and environmental improvement. We can help clients to turn climate change threats into business opportunities, whilst dealing positively with regulatory issues.

Results

As low carbon objectives become increasingly central to regional economic development policy, our expertise has become much sought after. Our industrial successes led to us being commissioned by the East Midlands Development Agency (emda) to help formulate its regional policy to underpin growth, but not at the expense of the environment. As a result, emda developed a Regional Energy Strategy with business and industry partners. It first mapped potential climate change effects on its economy, which led to its Programme for Implementing Resource Efficiency (PIRE) encompassing principles subsequently also adopted by East Midlands Business Link. emda’s initiative has influenced the West Midlands and several other UK regions.

Crucially, our activities also led being commissioned by three government departments (Defra in conjunction with DIUS and BERR), to produce the 2008 report: ‘Skills for a Low Carbon and Resource Efficient Economy’. This considered the UK’s skill requirements relevant to realistic development of a ‘Low Carbon and Resource Efficient Economy’, (LCREE). Research focused on factors driving demand for such skills, and gaps in current training provision that needed to be overcome.

Future Strategy

Our report for Defra identified the skills to support LCREE as ‘currently weak’. With little requirement yet actively expressed by employers for such skills, the demand-led style of UK-training provision meant it was ‘unprepared to respond’ to the anticipated upswing in market-need. An escalation of demand is certain to accompany the UK’s need to accelerate towards the challenging target of reducing carbon emissions by 80% by 2050. We are currently working with government, regional development agencies, education providers and every size of business, to develop the skills provision to tackle what is increasingly thought to be the drastic action needed to face the climate-change issues relevant to achieving LCREE.