What is the size of the European market for consultancy linked to CO2 emissions?

This might be financial consultancy (likely to be focused on carbon
trading), technical consultancy (eg resolving how to meet emissions
targets) or strategic consultancy (developing long term strategies for
dealing with CO2 emissions).  There may also be legal consultancy
related to meeting Kyoto agreements, or environmental consultancy.

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Clarification of Question by mattb2b-ga on 22 Sep 2005 05:06 PDT

We suggest that this could be answered through contacting some of the
key companies offering consultancy in this area - eg PwC, Point
Carbon, or ICF Consulting.

If you need further clarification of our question, don't be afraid to ask!

Hi Mattb2b-ga

I've been checking to read the posted answer to your question, but see
it has not yet been tackled/answered.

First of all are you still interested in the answer?
Secondly, would the Researchers prefer me not to try and answer this?

I have been working in this field for some years and am EC based. I am
not a Google Researcher and will require (can ask for) no
renumeration. If I were to try and answer this I would need some
clarification....

1) What parameters and units do you need to quantify and qualify the information?

2)Are you interested in just commercial Consultancy? 
There is significant Consultancy provided by academia and government
funded Institutes on a not-for-profit (NFP) basis. They are often
involved in EC funded work alongside the large Utilities and
Manufacturers who themselves have considerable environmental
departments. Some of these additionally promote their consultancy
services to outside clients.

So, most technical (my field) consultancy is a mixture of commercial
SME, NFP and large company efforts - mostly jointly funded by the EC
with companies contributing "in kind" as well as financially.

Financial, strategic and environmental consultancy are also usualy
linked to joint industry and EC funded work. Legal Consultancy I'm not
so sure about.

I am not working til Wednesday (12th) and think this an interesting
question. If no objections are received from the Researchers and you
are still interested I will see what I can come up with over the next
few days.

re: the above comment --  this question has been open for a few weeks
now, without an answer (I'm a GA researcher and an environmental
specialist myself, but really don't know quite where to get started
with this one).

If a commenter has some information that would help out here, I say Go For It!

I look forward to seeing what gets posted.

pafalafa-ga