Zonamérica Environmental Strategic Plan and Operational Plan in Uruguay

Project duration
01/2015
|
06/2016
Location
Uruguay
Head of service line
Guido Fernández de Velasco
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Zonamérica
Project Coordinator
Guido Fernández de Velasco
Founder and Co-Director and Head of Environmental Management and Strategic Planning
Team

Diego Martino
Holly Parker

Services
Strategic Planning

Zonamerica has been developing and working for sustainability for years for the achievement of excellence as a company. The environment is part of their priorities as a company and as such should be planned in the short, medium and long term. Zonamérica decided to engage in a planning process that included environmental aspects at its core. To this end, it hired AAE consulting services for the development of its strategic plan and operational plan.

Main tasks

  • Participation in work sessions with focus group
  • Analysis and review of documents
  • Research and preparation of priority axes
  • Specification of priority axes
  • Development of the Results Framework
  • Matrix Development of Monitoring and Evaluation
  • Drafting of the Strategic Plan document
  • Work sessions with focus group
  • Design of activities
  • Budgeting
  • Drafting Annual Operating Plan

Main outputs

  • Reduction of energy consumption to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions
  • Improvement and adaptation of the external and internal transport system to reduce GHG emissions
  • First business park in the region to fix the objective to take concrete actions to be carbon neutral
  • Provision of a platform for the companies engaged in the fight with climate change that would allow them to accomplish the objective of reduction of the carbon footprint and biodiversity conservation
  • Reduction of volume of solid waste
  • Improvement of the efficiency of the collection and recycling system
  • The 3 substantive axes of the environmental strategic plan and its results potentiated through the communication

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