Peer-group ESG benchmarking
ESG value chain consulting
Trusted ESG benchmarking from an expert team
SFA (Oxford)'s benchmarking of PGM producers on material environmental, social and governance factors generates high-resolution insights for sustainability-conscious investors to find best-in-class ESG performers and to inform stakeholder engagement. Incorporating our ESG benchmarking metrics into your investment decision-making can reduce risk and enhance returns. Using our novel insights into investment rationale we can help lower costs and increase efficiency, reduce the impact of fines and externalities, as well as improving adaptability to future market demand and technological shifts.
The push towards disclosure, accountability and transparency
In 2020, SFA began covering the upstream PGM sector, with comprehensive ESG market sector analytics, and their related economics, connecting all upstream, downstream and recycling-loop linkages of worldwide producers and users along the PGM food chain.
As organisations and institutions are assessed on their ethical and sustainability practices spanning environmental, social and governance (ESG) areas, ESG-compatible investment vehicles have been gathering traction amongst investors of all types as public awareness of companies' social and environmental influences increases.
In the face of new global social and environmental challenges, compliance with ESG initiatives has moved to the forefront of investor priorities. Understanding and mitigating regulatory, political and stakeholder issues are key to longevity in the natural resource sector. The pressures surrounding these factors are set to increase over the coming years.
To improve company accountability of their environmental footprints, SFA can help investors by benchmarking the peer PGM group in numerous ways to show new trends and sector outperformance. Some of the key ESG areas we look at include:
Environmental benchmarking
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Tracking company air emissions (greenhouse gas emissions, pollutants - sulfur dioxide, nitrous oxides, and particulate matter).
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Analysing energy usage (Scope 1, 2 and 3) and renewable energy utilisation.
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Monitoring water consumption and water recycling.
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Dissecting land use from mining and waste storage.
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Measuring waste generate and storage from tailings and rock dumps.
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Carbon taxation.
Social benchmarking
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Mapping employee demographics.
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Surveying employee health.
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Reporting on safety-related incidents.
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Calculating employee development and training spend.
Governance benchmarking
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Summarising board structure.
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Scrutinising board demographics.
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Assessing ethics and integrity policies.
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Reviewing company risk profiles.
Let us benchmark your ESG performance
Contact one of our team for more details.
Henk de Hoop
Chief Executive Officer
Adele Rouleau
ESG and Critical Minerals Lead
Daniel Croft
Commodity Analyst
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Augmenting ESG strategy, planning and Board support
SFA works closely with value chain players to understand how materially significant ESG issues can be integrated into their wider company strategy.
Battery life cycle analysis and ESG impact
SFA evaluates the long and complex life cycle analysis of battery metals and materials to improve the recycling opportunities available for market stakeholders.
Cradle-to-grave ESG recycling studies
SFA's analysis of environmental footprints from recycled material in terms of GHGs, waste generation and processing is helping future PGM recycling investments.
Sustainable investing and portfolio realignment
SFA supports investors finance new projects and opportunities through analysing clean energy investment targets and portfolios to reach their sustainability goals.
Asset optimisation and energy sustainability
SFA assists clients in capital-intensive industries to optimise assets and energy processes to reduce their environmental footprint to achieve higher returns.
Balancing the grid and energy storage
With the energy transition well underway, SFA helps energy-intensive industries with energy storage assessments to reduce their reliance on the grid.
Regulatory landscape and policy implications
SFA delivers detailed insights into climate change policies and sustainability targets to support industry stakeholders sustainability targets and market impacts.
ESG investor board packs and roadshows
SFA provides institutional investors and industrial players with sustainability and energy insights to enhance their pathway to net-zero strategies.
'Black box' ESG scenario and modelling
SFA executes scenario analysis to evaluate the impact of ESG development and clean energy to meet sustainability goals and optimise investment returns.
Sustainable mobility strategies for tomorrow
SFA supports mobility companies with their strategies providing global or local industry context, benchmarking competitors and identifying new opportunities.
Charging infrastructure and sustainable energy
SFA can help you analyse the rise of electric vehicle charging, grid development and clean energy to enhance your sustainable transport and air pollution strategies.
Decarbonising PGMs, BRM and the Hydrogen economy
SFA evaluates mine-to-market carbon reduction opportunities for producers to OEMs by tracking product carbon footprints and process emissions.
Establish a new 'green' premium market price
SFA can help you unlock a green carbon price premium and identify new opportunities by assisting your transition away from high emissions-intensive processes.
Human capital and organisational planning
The SFA team has completed many labour workforce projects analysing demographic trends and forecasting future labour requirements.
Country-wide ESG investment reviews
SFA’s regional industry ESG assessments analyse and peer-review your competitors to help discover the environmental leaders, and sector underperformers to measure future value opportunities.
Carbon trading and emissions intelligence
SFA can help industrial clients accelerate investments into low carbon energy sources with in-depth research into carbon trading systems and credit mechanisms to help offset and reduce their carbon emissions.
Carbon capture, utilisation and storage
SFA's insights of CCUS evaluates opportunities and technology risks for circular-economy players seeking to optimise their clean energy transition and long-term sustainability goals.
How can we help you?
SFA (Oxford) provides bespoke, independent intelligence on the strategic metal markets, specifically tailored to your needs. To find out more about what we can offer you, please contact us.