Sustainable Environmental Consultants

Sustainability is more than an environmental concern; there is a substantial social and governance component to it as well. Reporting can provide companies with a way to demonstrate their efforts to date, measure progress over time and uncover opportunities for improvement. Enter Sustainable Environmental Consultants, a sustainability verification provider for the food and agriculture industries, which is helping farmers and their supply chains verify and quantify sustainable practices. The company helps measure everything from on-farm regenerative agriculture practices to environmental impact and outcomes as well as providing ESG reporting.

“Sustainability is multifactorial. It’s not just environmental,” says Sara Crawford, president at Sustainable Environmental Consultants. “Our professional team of experts focuses on all facets of sustainability, be it environmental, social or governance.”

Sustainable Environmental Consultants offers customized consulting services for Corporate Social Responsibility and ESG reporting to help food and agriculture businesses monitor their progression and communicate to their consumers, investors and business partners a commitment to sustainability. From framework completion to goal setting and corporate reporting, Sustainable Environmental Consultants helps clients meet their goals by providing a holistic, science-based viewpoint that is both trustworthy and transparent due to the use of publicly available environmental models.

To deliver on that promise, Sustainable Environmental Consultants works as a trusted advisor to tailor solutions to each clients’ specific needs, ranging from MMRV (measurement, monitoring, reporting and verification) services to sustainability risk management to agriculture compliance and engineering. With its proprietary, third-party platform, the company can offer multiple sustainability solutions, like GHG emissions analyses, comprehensive reports, life cycle assessments and continuous improvement plans. Their suite of tools also includes customized analysis of the financial and environmental return on investment for implementing regenerative agriculture practices. Ultimately, Sustainable Environmental Consultants leverages data collection, analysis and consultative expertise to help their clients get credit for current sustainability efforts in their supply chains and to help farmers and food companies set smart goals for an even more sustainable future.

In addition to strategic evaluation and planning, the company has an experienced agricultural engineering and environmental services team that can provide a full-scope of conservation design assistance, watershed services and environmental compliance, including in-field and edge-of-field conservation practices, wetland developments, livestock waste management systems and nutrient management planning. The team also provides survey, planning and engineering assistance to meet operational, environmental and compliance goals.

Sustainable Environmental Consultants has partnered with numerous clients since its formation in 2008, helping businesses all along the food and agriculture supply chain to meet their sustainability goals. For example, they work with one of the world’s largest dairy foods companies on its regenerative agriculture program, designed to protect soil, strengthen agriculture’s resilience and support the next generation of farmers. Thanks to Sustainable Environmental Consultants’ ability to partner with farmers supplying the company to collect on-farm data and then translate it into meaningful aggregate information, this major category leader is set to release a 5 year report showing significant progress toward its goals.

Sustainable Environmental Consultants is a trusted advisor for its clients, wherever they are on their sustainability journey. Its third-party, independent measurement, reporting and verification tools and a talented team of experts in agriculture, sustainability and data science help clients understand how to set, measure and report on sustainability goals today and then implement the best continuous improvement practices for tomorrow.