SLR adds Anchor Environmental Consultants to environmental sciences unit

UK-based sustainability consultancy SLR has introduced the acquisition of marine and pure capital consultancy Anchor Environmental Consultants. In addition to increasing its capabilities in coastal growth, biodiversity, and pure capital advisory companies, the transfer additionally grows SLR’s presence throughout southern Africa.

Based by Barry Clark and Jane Turpie, Anchor Environmental Consultants is house to 45 professionals in South Africa and Namibia. Based mostly in Cape City, the agency offers companies together with ecological, social and financial evaluation, analysis, monitoring, ecosystem companies evaluation, and pure capital accounting – advising shoppers together with NGOs, mining, vitality, fisheries, and governments – whereas additionally working a marine taxonomy laboratory within the South African metropolis.

SLR is a  world environmental and advisory consultancy, with a workforce of greater than 5,000 professionals working from a community of workplaces in Europe, the Americas, Asia-Pacific, the Center East, and Africa. SLR has beforehand collaborated with Anchor on environmental and social impression evaluation (ESIA) tasks for main inexperienced hydrogen and ammonia developments; and in mining, infrastructure, offshore fuel, and offshore wind engagements.

The buying agency mentioned that the mixed groups will leverage their shared experience and create new alternatives to assist shoppers speed up sustainability outcomes. Anchor will rebrand underneath SLR’s environmental sciences unit. The unit will now be led by Jane Turpie, former CEO of Anchor, who will turn out to be director for environmental sciences.

Turpie mentioned, “Becoming a member of the SLR world community considerably enhances Anchor’s attain and capabilities, enabling improved consumer service and elevated impression within the marine science, pure capital and environmental economics and coverage area.”

Wanting forward, the acquisition will strengthen SLR’s functionality to assist shoppers navigating more and more advanced marine and coastal developments, in addition to its capability to assist shoppers all through their sustainability journey, from planning and evaluation via implementation. It constitutes the newest in a string of purchases by SLR, which additionally not too long ago bolstered its climate-modelling and analytics choices with offers for the platforms Planetrics and ClimSystems; whereas the agency additionally added sustainability advisory agency SB&CO, and sustainability consulting, software program and ESG knowledge options supplier WAP Sustainability to its ranks.

Tasman Graham, SLR’s managing director for the Center East & Africa, commented, “The mixing of Anchor into SLR’s Center East and Africa workforce strengthens our place as a number one supplier of companies in estuarine, coastal, marine and offshore environments, and aligns with SLR’s technique to develop world functionality within the ports and marine sector. Anchor’s work in pure capital is world-class, and this mixture will additional improve supply, supported by SLR’s strengths in sustainable finance, company sustainability, ecology, and digital companies.”