Services

Sustainability and Environment, Social, and Governance (ESG)

“Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.” – Warren Buffett

Sustainability / ESG Strategy and Governance

Sustainability/ESG strategy development and implementation
ESG governance design, training, and development
Benchmarking current sustainability/ESG practices and disclosures against industry peers and/or best practice
Materiality assessment
Gap assessment of current governance policies and practices against peers and/or best practice
Identification and disclosure of climate change risks and opportunities
Policies and procedures
Integration of sustainability/ESG factors in corporate strategy and risk management processes

Sustainability / ESG Integration

Policy, process, and management system integration and performance improvement
Sustainability/ESG education, training, and workshop facilitation for boards, senior management, and employees
Stakeholder engagement and communications
Research support on sustainability/ESG-related issues
Research support on funding sources and writing grant applications for provincial and federal renewable and other sustainability/ESG-related grants
Development of sustainability/ESG commitments, metrics, and targets
Non-financial assurance readiness assessment
Key performance indicator development

Sustainability / ESG Reporting and Disclosure

Gap assessments between existing disclosures (voluntary and non-voluntary) and key sustainability/ESG reporting standards and frameworks
Review of internally-developed draft content for ESG reports
Preparation of sustainability/ESG reports
Support on reporting in alignment with SASB, TCFD, GRI, CDP, and other reporting standards, frameworks, and schemes
Sustainability/ESG rating agency review, interpretation, and support

Social Performance Support

Indigenous and community engagement strategy and implementation
Benchmarking social sustainability factors against industry peers and best practice
Community investment strategy and implementation
Diversity, equity and inclusion
Project financing - Equator Principles (EP4) – compliance, review and drafting required environmental and social risk compliance documents
Equator Principles and human rights assessments
Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) implementation, reporting, and assessment

“In our every deliberation, we must consider the impact of our decisions on the next seven generations.”
– Iroquois maxim

Design, develop and implement Indigenous consultation strategies and plans
Provision of early and sustained engagement with Indigenous Groups
Managing complex regulatory reporting requirements including:
- Preparing regulatory application documentation packages for regulators (experienced with AER, AUC, AB NRCB, BC OCG, BC EAO, CER, IAA, Saskatchewan MER)
- Writing and producing communications materials and project updates
- Coordinating open houses and project information sessions
Develop, negotiate and prepare agreements, including (consultation work plans, capacity funding agreements, protocol agreements, impact / mutual benefit agreements, joint venture agreements, consortium agreements, equity support and financial agreements)
Support Indigenous equity, debt and financing strategies, negotiations and documentation
Developing and supporting corporate reconciliation strategies
Indigenous awareness training
Coordinating, negotiating and documenting opportunities available to Indigenous communities and their businesses

“Law is nothing else but the best reason of wise men applied for ages to the transactions and business of mankind.”
– Abraham Lincoln

Environmental law
Energy law
ESG compliance, liability and M&A support and advice
Regulatory and permitting advice and support focused on climate change, energy development (AER, ACO, BC OGC, BCUC, CER, IAA, Saskatchewan MER)
Regulatory compliance, permitting and projects approvals, including administrative hearing representation
Indigenous law
Human rights
Governance law
Negotiation and dispute resolution

We are happy to talk sustainability anytime, whether it is ESG, Indigenous Relations, or regulatory and legal support.