Critical Resource Strategy & Analysis

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.

Brief examples of past projects:

Client challenge: Client’s oil industry partners looking to develop strategies to capture greater value, and more effectively manage risks, from sustainability pressures
What we did: Identified main win-win opportunities across industry through mapping and analysis
How it helped: Helped client open doors and support business development with its oil industry partners

Client challenge: Major oil firm under scrutiny for plans to construct off-shore oil platforms in environmentally sensitive area in Asia-Pacific region
What we did: Advised on approach to mitigate risks and allow investment to proceed without significant opposition
How it helped: Supported development of project while taking into account environmental sensitivities

Research: Analysis to support client decision-making & approaches.

In terms of approach, Critical Resource will assist clients to achieve improved sustainability outcomes and responsiveness to external expectations. It will work with organisations which have a genuine commitment to responsibility. Some services are outside the scope of Critical Resource's work. Critical Resource is not a PR or lobbying firm. While able to provide fact-based content for potential external use, Critical Resource does not undertake media relations itself or represent clients externally. Client confidentiality is a core principle for Critical Resource.