Political Context offers environmental service

Lobbying firm Political Context has launched an environmental

strategy and communications consultancy.

Called Environmental Context, the agency will advise clients on how to

improve their impact on the environment, and on their environmental

policy and communications.

The consultancy will be headed by managing director Simon Propper. He

joins from Aspinwall and Company, an agency which advises companies

including Scottish Power and Thames water on how to make their

organisations more environmentally friendly.

Propper, who was client director of corporate environmental strategy at

Aspinwall, will help Context clients to prepare environmental

reports.

Political Context chairman Leighton Andrews said: ’In our first year a

significant amount of work which clients have brought us has concerned

environmental regulation. We see a real synergy between our political

work in this field and the kind of corporate environmental reporting in

which Simon specialises.’

Propper’s team includes Peter Knight, previously an environmental writer

for the Financial Times, Richard Dalley, an environmental systems

auditor, and Anne Grafe, an EU policy expert and lecturer at Imperial

College.

Environmental Context has a strategic alliance with Aspinwall and the

agencies will work jointly for selected clients.