Environmental and Safety Solutions Industry Update August 2013
Environmental and Safety Solutions Industry Update │ August 2013 Harris Williams & Co. Environmental and Safety Solutions │August 2013 MONTHLY SPOTLIGHT CONTENTS MONTHLY SPOTLIGHT Four Important Trends for Global Air Quality and Pollution Solutions WHAT WE’RE READING Despite several decades of tightening air quality and pollution regulations in many RELEVANT HW&CO. TRANSACTIONS PUBLIC MARKETS developed countries, there remains a major global focus on the subject with a variety of PUBLIC COMPARABLES implications for governments, businesses, investors, and individuals. Although daily, NOTABLE M&A ACTIVITY weekly, and monthly reports out of China dominate the headlines with respect to air M&A TRANSACTION DETAIL pollution issues, there are a variety of important global considerations that will either directly support or supplement investor returns across certain of our focus sectors, OUR PRACTICE including engineering, construction, and consulting as well as test, measurement, and control. This month, we present several considerations for various market participants Harris Williams & Co. is a leading advisor regarding global air quality and pollution developments. to the environmental and safety solutions M&A market. Our Environmental and 1 Climate Change Will Dominate Shifts in Global Air Emissions Standards Safety Solutions Practice includes experience across a broad range of sectors, Efforts to significantly reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, particularly carbon including products and services that meet dioxide, are inevitable and will have a considerable impact on virtually every area of environmental and safety demands for a economic activity in coming decades, with dramatic effects for particular industries and variety of end markets. sectors. The open question on the topic pertains mostly to how quickly major policies around the world will develop to affect meaningful and permanent reductions in GHG E&S Sectors emissions (not “if” such policies will eventually occur).
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