Zonamérica 2014-2018 Environmental Strategic Plan and 2015 Operational Plan
Strategic Planning, Environmental Management
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Uruguay

Zonamérica 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.

AAE´s team included Environmentalists, Geographer, Communication experts and Sustainable transport experts.