The phrase "a very different environment to" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when comparing two distinct settings or contexts, often to highlight contrasts.
Example: "The new office is a very different environment to the one we had before, with more open spaces and collaborative areas."
Alternatives: "a very different environment from" or "a significantly different setting than".
It is clear that banks will have to work – for the foreseeable future – in a very different environment to that in which deregulated, "smash and grab", short-term priorities provided the golden rules for the God-like City bankers.
"The bubble that the elite sports people live in is a very different environment to what people will go back to dealing with on a daily basis," he said.
It is of course a very different environment to Surf Office, which has now spurred me to consider co-living on future trips when a whole holiday is too much of a luxury.
This is a far cry from the kind of room for manoeuvre which directors such as Christopher Nolan and JJ Abrams have been handed with regard to the latest Batman and Star Trek films, and provides a very different environment to that experienced by Ross for The Hunger Games.
Wrap Patent owners and inventors have a very different environment to operate in.
"These animals have evolved in a very different environment to the one they're living in today".
It will be wrong to extrapolate our results in order to interpret the early evolution of APOE, since modern populations experience a very different environment compared to our early ancestors.
During my visit, many people expressed curiosity about jobs where the focus falls squarely on educating undergraduates, and where research is performed in a very different environment than they're used to.
All that makes the web a very different environment than the cutthroat entertainment industry familiar to the world from countless novels and movies -- "Day of the Locust," "The Player," or "Swimming With Sharks".
I started at Wayne State, putting myself through school by working nearly full-time, and finally I got a scholarship to go to Michigan, and it was a very different environment.
"Compared to six years ago this is a very different environment," said a second top executive at a major TV group.
