Industry Experience
Climate-tech · Decarbonisation · Carbon markets · Adaptation

Sustainability & Climate

From pledge-era ESG to attestation-era climate. We deliver leadership that survives an SEC climate rule audit, a CSRD assurance cycle and a say-on-climate vote in the same fiscal year.

Climate has migrated from a CSR overlay to a primary disclosure regime with criminal and civil exposure. We have placed CEO, Chief Sustainability Officer, Chief Climate Officer, Chief Risk Officer and General Counsel benches across pure-play climate-tech, decarbonisation infrastructure, carbon-market participants and adaptation-finance platforms.

Global Practice Lead — Sustainability & Climate
London · Singapore (joint)
THE EVIDENTIARY RECORD
212
Sustainability mandates

Pure-play climate-tech, decarbonisation infrastructure, carbon markets, adaptation finance.

63
Chief Sustainability Officer placements

Including 17 with full board vote and proxy-vote accountability.

8
Chief Climate Officer inaugural appointments

Including the first CCO appointments at two G-SIBs and a global supermajor.

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Multi-framework calibration

Every successor scored against ISSB, CSRD, SEC climate rule and TNFD in parallel.

GLOBAL FOOTPRINT

212 mandates across four regions.

We deliver this sector out of five global hubs — Sydney (HQ), Singapore, London, New York and Dubai — anchored to discrete supervisory regimes. Regional Managing Partners hold the primary client relationship; the global sector lead governs methodology, calibration and quality.

Asia-Pacific
62
mandates delivered
Delivery Hubs

Sydney · Singapore · Tokyo · Seoul

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ASX climate-tech, ASEAN carbon markets, Australian Climate-Active certified entities.

EMEA
88
mandates delivered
Delivery Hubs

London · Amsterdam · Copenhagen · Berlin

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FTSE-listed decarbonisation, Nordic climate-tech, EU ETS infrastructure.

Americas
48
mandates delivered
Delivery Hubs

New York · San Francisco · São Paulo

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S&P 500 climate-tech, North-American adaptation infrastructure, Latin-American voluntary carbon.

Middle East & Africa
14
mandates delivered
Delivery Hubs

Dubai · Riyadh · Cape Town

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GCC sovereign climate programmes, African nature-based solutions, sovereign hydrogen.

SECTOR CAPABILITIES

What we are calibrated to deliver.

Chief Climate Officer benches

CCO scoring across ISSB IFRS S2, CSRD, SEC climate rule and TNFD obligations simultaneously.

Carbon-market governance

Operator scoring under ICVCM Core Carbon Principles and VCMI Claims Code of Practice.

Just-transition operating model

CSO and HR-bench scoring under ILO Just Transition Guidelines and SBTi corporate net-zero standard.

Adaptation-finance leadership

Capital-allocation bench scoring for physical-risk integration under TCFD and CDP frameworks.

SECTOR RISK VECTORS

The exposure pattern we price into every slate.

Greenwashing litigation

FTC, ACCC, CMA and EU UCPD enforcement now extends to board-level oversight of environmental claims.

Assurance-readiness gap

CSRD limited-assurance failures correlate with subsequent CSO and CFO removal within 12 months.

Carbon-credit credibility

ICVCM and VCMI alignment failures trigger immediate retail and institutional-buyer exit cascades.

TNFD nature-disclosure exposure

Nature-related dependency disclosure is the next-cycle equivalent of climate-risk attribution rigour.

SIGNATURE MANDATES

Anonymised by code; defensible by record.

Every engagement opens under NDA-by-default discretion. The mandates below are surfaced with code, region, remit and outcome — the underlying entity, candidate and counterparty detail remains under confidentiality envelope and is only disclosable on engagement under reciprocal NDA.

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EMEA
FTSE 100 decarbonisation programme · Chief Climate Officer

Inaugural CCO with full board vote; preceded successful say-on-climate vote with 94% support and CSRD limited-assurance pass.

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Americas
S&P 500 industrial · CSO + General Counsel for SEC climate rule readiness

Paired appointments installed 11 months ahead of compliance date; first audit cycle cleared with no remediation conditions.

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Asia-Pacific
ASX-listed carbon-market platform · CEO

Successor with combined ICVCM and ASEAN voluntary-market regulator credentials; preserved ACCU and ASEAN VCM operating posture.

SC-ME-003
Middle East
GCC sovereign hydrogen programme · Chair

First Chair across the GCC hydrogen consortium with combined IFI and EU-state regulator credentials.

SKILLS-MATRIX ANCHORS

The regulatory regimes encoded into every successor score.

Each successor in this sector is scored against the regimes below. The skills-matrix is refreshed continuously by the firm's Regulatory Architect team as supervisory expectations migrate — the most recent calibration was applied to every live slate in the current quarter.

ISSB IFRS S1 / S2 · CSRD ESRS · SEC climate rule · TNFD

Multi-framework calibration encoded into CSO/CCO bench requirements.

ICVCM Core Carbon Principles · VCMI Claims Code of Practice

Carbon-market governance encoded into operator scoring.

SBTi Corporate Net-Zero Standard

Net-zero target conformity scored as a board-level skills matrix item.

ILO Just Transition Guidelines

Just-transition operating model encoded into HR-bench scoring.

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Brief the Sustainability & Climate practice lead.

Every sector engagement opens under NDA-by-default discretion and is governed by the regional Managing Partner. Initial briefings are conducted in person or under secure-channel video — never over open email.