Milestones

2022:

This year, our 30th in business, was a busy one! We moved office, grew the team, and delivered on an exciting range of projects and expanded our services. 

Our highlights from this year can be found here.

Our 30th Anniversary page is here

 

2021:

Leading the publication of the first BSI (8632) Standard on Natural Capital Accounting for Organizations

Click here for a summary of the year

 

2020:

Opened a subsidiary in the Republic of Ireland

Started our 640th project

 

2019:

We hired our first natural scientist!

 

2018:

Commissioned by BEIS to estimate the economic value of freely available Companies House information to society – report is published here

 

2017:

The most comprehensive and quantitative review of the impacts of REACH Authorisation 

 

2016:

The first organisational scale Corporate Natural Capital Accounts for the Forest Enterprise England

 

2010:

The first (and to date the only) official UK guidance on value transfer

 

2004:

The UK Network for Environmental Economics and the first annual applied environmental economics conference

The first review of ecosystem services as a concept for use in UK environmental policy

 

2002:

The first stated preference study to measure the economic value of bathing waters in the UK

 

2001:

The first study on economic concept of damage and cost benefit analysis to draft the EU Environmental Liability Directive

 

1998:

The first stated preference study for a water company to estimate the impact of changing water levels in River Ouse (Yorkshire)

 

1992:

eftec was initiated by two graduates from University College London MSc on Environmental Economics and Natural Resource Management; with Professors David Pearce and Kerry Turner as patrons