Areas of Expertise

 
 

ENVIRONMENTAL

  • Application of the "mitigation" hierarchy (avoid/reduce/remedy)

  • Biodiversity and ecosystem services; protection of rare/threatened/endangered species

    • Biodiversity offsetting

  • Waste management

    • Waste classification and inventorying

    • Waste generation avoidance and reuse/recycling

    • Hazardous and non-hazardous waste incineration and landfilling

    • Biotreatment of hydrocarbon-containing wastes

  • Groundwater protection and monitoring

  • Management of discharges to surface water bodies

  • Consumption/use of water resources

  • Air emissions, including greenhouse gases (GHGs)

    • Reduction/control

    • Upstream flaring

Social

  • Stakeholder engagement

  • Capacity building (business and employment opportunities, technical support)

  • Individual (damages) and community compensation

  • Indigenous peoples

  • Human rights

other

  • Environmental and social safeguard policies and requirements of multi-lateral (e.g., World Bank Group [including the International Finance Corporation], European Bank for Reconstruction and Development) and private sector (e.g., Equator Principles) financing institutions

  • Malaria and Sexually Transmitted Infections prevention and education

  • Not-for-profit biodiversity/conservation foundations/trust funds

  • Due diligence assessments of properties and service providers (e.g., waste management facilities)