Sustainability for the energy sector

Human rights strategies

A strong human rights agenda will help you meet your stakeholders’ needs and expectations including creating social value, protecting human rights and managing regulatory requirements at both a firm and portfolio company level.

A Human Rights Impact Assessment (HRIA) can help a company assess and address the legal requirements relating to its existing or potential human rights impacts, and meet its responsibility to address all human rights.

The TDi team can help you determine if the specific human rights issues that affect your company are covered by other impact assessments or due diligence processes, and whether they  require a separate HRIA – ensuring compliance with sustainable business regulations.

Case study: Human Rights Impact Assessment in Nicaragua

Our team are experts in the intricate process of Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC), which safeguards the rights of Indigenous people and requires firms to consult and cooperate with Indigenous communities before initiating any project that could affect their lands, livelihoods, or cultural heritage. This involves detailed negotiations, transparency, and a deep understanding of local cultures and legal frameworks. 

Community engagement and social impact strategies

Our community engagement services offer comprehensive solutions to help organisations define their sustainability ambitions, build a business case, and develop a strategy that aligns with the latest legislation, regulations, and sustainable initiatives.  

We can help build social acceptance through the development of stakeholder management plans, social impact investment strategies, human rights initiatives and community relations programmes. 

Strategic communications

We work with organisations across energy value chains to communicate the data behind the work that they’re doing.

Whether you’re looking for data analysis and report writing, to run a webinar, develop a podcast, or communicate the work that your company is doing to mitigate the risks in your renewable energy supply chain, TDi’s technically led communications team can develop the creative and engaging solutions that you need. 

Training and capacity building

We develop and implement bespoke training programmes and create and provide resources to build the capacity of teams within energy companies, and their suppliers, enabling them to deliver higher ESG performance.

Industry leadership

TDi has cross-industry expertise in bringing together disparate organisations in a non-competitive environment to engender industry-wide change. In the energy industry, coordinated action and ESG expectations from buyers can ensure consistent messaging to suppliers and allow buyers’ resources to be pooled and target improvements more effectively. This in turn ensures that suppliers can more easily and efficiently demonstrate how they are meeting buyers’ ESG expectations.

Standard setting

The TDi team has been involved in developing and setting many of the standards in the responsible sourcing space. We’re ideally placed both to advise and work with you on the creation of standards, but also to evaluate and map the standards that apply to your operations and suppliers.

Read about TDi’s work with Equitable Origin in the development of the EO100™ Standard for energy development projects

Second and third-party audits

As experienced auditors, TDi conducts audits against client-specific requirements, client codes of conduct and a variety of key sustainability, traceability, chain of custody and responsible sourcing standards.  

These include:

• The Copper, Nickel, Zinc and Molybdenum Mark
• RECOSI Coal Programme (Bettercoal)
• RMI Responsible Minerals Assurance Process (RMAP) and Downstream Assessment Programme (DAP)
• London Metal Exchange Track A and Track B
• EO100™ Standard for Responsible Energy Development
• Mining Association of Canada (MAC) TSM Protocols
• IRMA Standard for Responsible Mining
• ITSCI Programme for Responsible Mineral Supply Chains
• OECD Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Supply Chains of Materials from Conflict-Affected and High-Risk Areas (CAHRAs)

Creation of insights and reports

TDi’s data analysts and responsible sourcing experts produce insight reports and data-driven research and analysis for a wide range of clients.

TDi is known for its knowledge and data on ESG risks in minerals and metals supply chains – enabling industry-wide comparisons of ESG issues and their significance for the energy sector. Get in touch with your research requirements.