Environmental and social performance
We work with organisations managing environmental and social risk — from strategy through to risk management, impact assessment, management systems, to due diligence, monitoring and reporting. Our support is built around teams or individuals, and designed to be removed once it is no longer needed.
From strategy to operationalisation, with a focus on E&S risk, impact assessment, due diligence, management systems, monitoring, assurance and capability building.
Direct advisory work for business leaders, project developers and lenders, globally. We help clients define strategy in complex emerging contexts with competing priorities — finding a way forward that reduces risk and amplifies the opportunities, while recognising the needs of the business.
Advisory services for a full range of clients across many sectors, covering the standard areas of environmental and social practice — from impact assessment and risk through to lender compliance and reporting.
Expert support, built around your people.
Critical review of philanthropic programmes for meaningful impact — for social investment programme managers and investors who want to know whether the money is doing what they intended.
Whether the work is a strategy, a due diligence exercise or support for one person, the shape of an Ambient engagement is the same.
Before anything is scoped or costed, we want to understand the decision you face, who is affected by it and what has already been tried. That conversation is free and carries no obligation.
The associates who scope the work are the ones who do it. We work with a network of partners, each with over 30 years' experience, so the expertise is matched to the problem rather than to who happens to be free.
Our support is designed to leave your organisation able to implement, manage and deliver the work itself. That means plans that work in real life — proportionate, fit for purpose, and not gold-plated or more complicated than the situation needs.
Our work routinely touches material that is commercially sensitive, contested or pre-disclosure. We work under NDA as standard, and are glad to sign yours before the first substantive conversation — you never need to share anything sensitive to find out whether we can help.