Business Decisions: The Environment Business specialises in evaluating the business impact of environmental issues. This includes monitoring regulation, assessing opportunities, and risk analysis. Members of The Environment Business work with companies to shape their environmental policies, resulting in more effective strategies, lower environmental impact and often cost savings. We have developed a suite of tools to help companies assess the costs and benefits of emissions targets. This builds on the work commissioned by the DETR modelling the effects of incentives for companies to sign up to an emissions trading scheme. The Environment Business is uniquely able to advise companies on the whether they should sign up to such a scheme. We regularly run workshops on the how companies should approach the issues involved. Assessing the impact of any environmental issue or policy requires an understanding of the interaction between the costs to the business and its potential benefits. This requires including the likely reactions of competitors and other businesses to these issues. We specialise in building models of these processes which can include the likely price of, for example, markets in emissions permits and how this can affect individual decision making.