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Climate - Financial Reporting

Our expertise in due diligence and costing enables lenders and funders to ensure the projects they support are climate resilient. Experienced in reporting, we also help banks, investors and other organisations disclose how resilient their portfolios are to climate risks.

Supporting climate-resilient financing

How do organisations such as development banks make sure the projects they invest in are resilient to climate change? Lenders and funders benefit from our:

  • Market analysis and due diligence.
  • Financial analysis and costing of options.
  • Proposal and business case preparation.

We can be involved at the feasibility stage, identifying risks to a proposed asset and exploring how its design could be adapted. Or we can assist you later in the project, providing due diligence to assess whether all relevant climate-related risks have been properly considered.

Working with our in-house economists and engineers, we also produce cost estimates for climate adaptation measures. This can involve ‘hard’ engineering solutions such as a flood barrier or ‘soft’ solutions such as developing policy or building adaptive capacity in an organisation.

Effective disclosure and reporting

Globally, trillions of pounds of investments are at risk from climate change. Understandably, investors, lenders, insurers and other stakeholders want to know about the nature and size of these risks so they can plan their responses. To help organisations disclose how resilient their portfolios are to climate risks, we:

  • Produce focussed, practical, plain-English, evidence-led, accessible reports that communicate complex information clearly.
  • Develop monitoring frameworks and plans to help your organisation build on lessons learnt and increase its resilience to climate- and weather-related risks.
  • Apply reporting frameworks, including Adaptation Reporting Power (ARP) and Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD).

We have significant experience in reporting frameworks, particularly the emerging TCFD gold standard. Whatever your industry, by aligning to the TCFD recommended disclosures, we provide you with consistent, transparent financial risk disclosure that considers the physical, liability and transition risks associated with climate change. Aligned with investors’ needs, these disclosures give the financial markets the information they want and help you put climate change at the heart of all aspects of your decision making.

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Related Projects

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Project

Kaituna River Rediversion and Maketu Estuary Enhancement

The Kaituna River Re-diversion and Maketū Estuary Enhancement Project was established to significantly increase the volume of freshwater flowing from the Kaituna River into Te Awa o Ngātoroirangi/Maketū Estuary and re-create 20ha of wetland.

The project sought to address the long-standing negative effects of the 1956 Kaituna Cut and associated works on the health of the estuary and the local community. Re-diverting the rivers flow would restore freshwater connections in the upper estuary, stop the process of sand infilling the lower estuary, and significantly improve the ecological health of the middle and upper estuary.

Along with the re-creation of 20ha of wetland and increased opportunities for public access, the project would help to make the estuary healthier for people to swim and fish in.