Across many industries, sustainability and stakeholder pressures are intensifying, putting significant value at stake for companies. In the resources sector in particular, such issues are increasingly giving rise to critical business risks and opportunities.
Our client work focuses on the areas below. Click on each for more detail and for brief examples of past projects, including some undertaken by our experts prior to joining Critical Resource. For confidentiality reasons, client names are not given. Please also see the News & Insights page.
- Rating, risk and impact assessment: assessments of the “socio-political license to operate” for resource projects using Critical Resource’s proprietary methodology, LicenseSecure™. Also analyses of social and human rights risks and impacts of projects.
- Policies, guidance & implementation: Development of policies, guidance and management systems on sustainability and stakeholder issues. Also support for on-the-ground implementation of these policies, including internal awareness building and training.
- Issue leadership: Content for advancing international debates across the range of stakeholder and sustainability issues.
- Strategy development: Advice on ways to create and protect shareholder value by embedding stakeholder and sustainability issues into core business strategy.
- Research: Analysis to support client decision-making & approaches.
Brief examples of past projects:
Client challenge: Client’s major oil & mining partners facing significant constraints in gaining & maintaining access to resources – uncertainty as to how to effectively (and responsibly) employ socio-political & sustainability levers
What we did: Developed analytical framework to examine how non-financial levers affect host country access decisions; analysed effectiveness of non-financial levers in over 20 large oil & mining projects
How it helped: Delivered fresh insights into ways of improving access outcomes, highlighting strategic potential (and also limits) of corporate sustainability and socio-economic performance
Client challenge: Leading financial institution clients of global professional services firm searching for ways to meet commitments to build sustainability issues into investment approach in a meaningful way
What we did: Researched innovative methods used by a sample of financial institutions to build sustainability issues into financial valuations models – and organisational and other barriers to this
How it helped: Findings being used in client discussions, external reputation building & in other related research
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