Yep, I know a couple of recent grads who've gone into environmental consultancy of one form or another.
I'm also a geographer graduating this year by the way
I am also looking to pursue an environmental route. However, I have some reservations about consultancy. Whilst I recognize that corporate responsibility is generally improving regarding the environment, a lot of the work seems to be in compliance consulting of one form or another, helping companies just to tick the relevant boxes to meet legal guidelines and minimize outlay via environmental levies. This is likely to frustrate me because legislation isn't all that tight in a lot of areas and in my view doesn't do enough to protect biodiversity and guard against resource overexploitation, climatic impacts and other damages. EI assessment work is perhaps more dubious, because whilst your job is ostensibly to asses environmental (sometimes also social) impacts, I fear there may be significant pressure to support the interests of the company or client you're working for (through careful data representation/ statistical manipulation and so on). I don't wish to be conspiratorial, but I think it would be naive to assume the vast majority of corporations have any concern for the environment beyond economics, legal restrictions and a veneer for brand image. In short, to use a cliche, I'm concerned that the genuine environmentalist in me might have to 'sell his soul' in this sort of business.
Have you thought about the ethical side of corporate environmentalism? What's your take?