Specialist Consultancy Services
We offer specialist practical planning and implementation support for lenders, borrowers and companies. As complex, new and emerging regulations or frameworks continue to evolve, we can help you stay on top of the most current requirements and turn them into a workable plan.
Supporting lending institutions
Our team have worked for and with lenders on simple and complex transactions and assisted in the development and revision of existing policies. We provide support with:
- Environmental and social policy, including a review of your existing policies and benchmarking those with other MDB policies
- Preparation of templates to promote borrower alignment with lender policy requirements
- Borrower due diligence and monitoring
- Borrower capacity-building support
Enabling borrowers to understand lender requirements
Our people have a wealth of in-depth technical expertise and diverse practical experience in borrowing solutions. We adapt this knowledge to your specific needs and support you in:
- Screening lender requirements and implementation planning, including organisation, budget planning and integration into project execution plans
- Due diligence preparation
- Capacity-building and Environmental and Social Action Plan (ESAP) implementation
- Environmental and Social Management System and performance reporting system development
- Monitoring visit preparation and project performance reporting
Workplace and labour management
The Energies Group specialists have worked across a wide range of sectors and jurisdictions; supporting improvements in labour management policies and procedures, employment practices and human rights outcomes. We’ll guide you through:
- Benchmarking your labour management systems – covering employees, contractors, subcontractors and supply chains – against regulation, MDB and voluntary standards
- Developing labour policies and procedures aligned with applicable standards, labour performance metrics and monitoring frameworks
- Developing worker management assurance systems to promote and monitor compliance with applicable standards, including training and reporting support
- Conducting labour audits
Grievance management systems implementation
From single sites to international corporations with complex systems that manage thousands of grievances, we understand what it takes to develop and implement robust and reliable community and worker systems. Our specialists can:
- Revise your existing grievance management procedures or develop new worker and community and systems in alignment with MDB and international best practice, including gender-based violence and harassment grievances
- Provide you with system management support, including grievance investigation, resolution and verification of closure and development of remedy solutions
Contaminated land management
If managing risk from land contamination is a component of your business or supply chain, there are many complexities and liabilities to assess. Our support in this area focuses on:
- Designing and implementing the investigation and remediation of contaminated land to understand and manage associated liabilities
- Detailed Quantitative Risk Assessment (DQRA), which is used to minimise remediation and ensure maximum benefit where remediation is required
Biodiversity and nature
Our team and network of specialists deploy practical biodiversity solutions, even on the most challenging of projects. We’ll help you assess, avoid and manage your business impacts and dependencies on nature, through:
- Baseline survey design and management
- Monitoring programme development, review and implementation
- Establishing business policies and operational procedures, including supply chain governance
- Biodiversity offset programme design and assurance
Occupational health and safety (OHS)
We work with clients to improve health and safety performance by enhancing existing or building new processes and programmes, assessing and mitigating risks, and driving performance improvements. We can provide you with:
- Comprehensive OHS management support throughout the project lifecycle, from planning and risk identification, and the assessment of contractors and suppliers, to subsequent management of contractors during project execution and operations
- OHS policy and management system development, including assurance and verification, performance monitoring and reporting
- Incident investigation and audit
Climate risk assessment and GHG accounting
The need to report climate-related financial risks and opportunities aligned with the Task Force on Climate Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) pillars of governance, strategy, risk management, and metrics and targets, has evolved from a voluntary to a regulated requirement in some jurisdictions.
Regulation is also mandating the quantification and reporting of direct (Scope 1) and indirect (Scope 2) emissions, as well as Scope 3 emissions from within the value chain. The Energies Group team can support you in:
- Navigating the different climate targets, and reporting and disclosure standards within regulation and voluntary frameworks
- Identifying, assessing and prioritising physical and transition risks, supporting your understanding of exposure and vulnerability and applying scenarios that are relevant to your business
- Defining your financial and operational impacts and supporting adaptation and resilience measures
- GHG quantification, management and reporting, extending to your upstream and downstream emissions
