ESG Advisory

Providing comprehensive ESG risk assessments across multiple levels of analysis:

• Operational-level assessments: Evaluate ESG risks at the site level, including emissions, biodiversity, water use, human rights, and local engagement.
• Company-level risk analysis: Understand exposure across assets, operations, and corporate strategy maturity models and heatmaps.
• Commodity-level insights: Identify the ESG implications and life-cycle impacts of specific commodities, including lithium, cobalt, copper, nickel, rare earths, and PGMs.
• Regional and jurisdictional analysis: Map policy, regulatory, and social risks by geography to inform project development, permitting, and stakeholder strategies.

These assessments help clients quantify and prioritise risks, anticipate stakeholder concerns, and support ESG due diligence processes.

Delivering tailored ESG scoring and benchmarking solutions at the project level:

• Custom-built ESG performance scoring tools based on commodity-specific and regional considerations
• Diagnostic evaluations across key ESG themes such as environmental footprint, social license to operate, and governance maturity
• Peer group benchmarking to assess competitive ESG standing in relation to industry leaders and disclosure trends

This enables clients to understand where they stand, where they lag, and where opportunities exist to differentiate through sustainability.

Delivering tailored materiality analysis and ESG reporting support aligned with the latest global frameworks:

• Double materiality analysis incorporating both impact and financial perspectives
• Stakeholder engagement planning and mapping
• Materiality matrices tailored to corporate structure and commodity exposure
• Alignment with key ESG standards and disclosure frameworks including GRI, SASB, IFRS S1/S2, CSRD/ESRS, and ICMM principles

Our services support compliance-readiness, investor reporting, and transparency goals, helping clients build credible and defensible ESG narratives.

Benchmarking is at the core of our ESG methodology. We contextualise ESG performance :

• Peer comparisons within the same commodity or region
• Regulatory and policy-driven performance baselines
• Sectoral ESG trends and investor expectations

This comparative approach helps clients clearly demonstrate leadership, manage ESG-related reputational risks, and prepare for scrutiny from investors, regulators, and civil society.

Offering ESG advisory tailored specifically for financial institutions and investment products focused on the mining and metals sector. Our expertise supports:

• ESG risk screening and integration at asset, portfolio, and fund level
• Fund-level ESG policy development and reporting support
• Regulatory alignment with the EU Taxonomy, SFDR, and other sustainable finance regulations
• Investor and Limited Partner (LP) engagement on ESG product positioning
• Support in designing ESG investment strategies in critical minerals and responsible mining

CPT bring together technical ESG knowledge, commodity market insights, and finance-sector fluency to support credible, high-impact ESG positioning for financial actors.