Sustainability
The environmental component settled, and sustainability you can measure
Compliance current, resources optimized and indicators that get reported. Our AI-assisted carbon footprint measurement puts numbers to everything else.
The problem
Managing the environment well is not just complying: it is understanding how much water, energy and waste the operation consumes, what impact it generates and how to reduce it. Without that measurement, resources are overspent, pollution accumulates and sustainability stays an intention.
Most operations have the data scattered: permits on one side, consumption on another, reports half done. Putting that in order turns environmental management into strategy: less impact, lower costs and an operation that can prove what it does.
For operations with environmental obligations or sustainability targets that want to manage their impact, not just answer for it.
The result of what we do
- Footprints
- Carbon (CO₂e) and water (m³) calculated, with a baseline and targets.
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- Expired permits: environmental obligations current, with early warning.
- PMA · PGIRS
- Environmental management and waste management plans implemented.
Scope
Compliance and filings
Legal requirements, permits and environmental authorities.
- Comprehensive environmental assessment and evaluation of environmental aspects and impacts.
- Design and implementation of environmental management plans (PMA).
- Formulation and implementation of integrated solid waste management plans (PGIRS).
- Compliance management for the applicable environmental legal requirements.
- Technical support before environmental authorities and in regulatory proceedings.
- Filing and management of environmental licenses, permits and authorizations.
Strategy and performance
Sustainability applied to the daily operation.
- Design and implementation of corporate sustainability programs.
- Environmental education and training for operational and administrative staff.
- Monitoring, control and improvement of organizational environmental performance.
Footprints and resources
Measuring the impact so it can be managed.
- Resource efficiency strategies for water, energy and waste.
- Calculation of environmental footprints (carbon and water).
- Campaigns on the use and optimization of water, energy and waste.
Social and ESG
The social dimension of sustainability, and how it gets reported.
- Social performance assessment: relations with communities, contractors and staff.
- Definition of ESG metrics and a tracking dashboard for the board and the parent company.
- Structuring of sustainability reports under international standards.
- Human rights due diligence applied to the supply chain.
Frequently asked questions
How do I know which environmental permits my operation needs?
From an environmental legal requirements register built on the actual economic activity, the location and the resources used or affected. The initial assessment identifies missing permits, expired ones and filings in progress before the competent authority: ANLA, the national environmental licensing agency, or the regional environmental authority (corporación autónoma regional, CAR), depending on the case.
What is a PGIRS and who has to have one?
It is the integrated solid waste management plan (Plan de Gestión Integral de Residuos Sólidos): it defines how the waste an organization generates, hazardous waste included, is separated, stored, transported and disposed of. It is required of generators covered by the regulation and, in practice, of any operation that wants to control disposal cost and avoid penalties.
Is calculating the carbon footprint good for anything beyond reporting?
Yes. The emissions inventory pinpoints where the real energy and fuel consumption sits, which almost always coincides with where the avoidable cost sits. The value is in the reduction plan that comes out of the calculation, not in the number.
Do you support visits and formal requests from the environmental authority?
Yes. We prepare the documentation, provide technical support during the visit and structure the response to formal requests within the statutory deadlines.