14Enabling Future Value
ESG & Sustainability
Building Resilient Institutions. Creating Sustainable Value.
Sustainability is no longer a separate corporate initiative. It shapes investment decisions, access to capital, regulatory confidence, institutional legitimacy and long-term enterprise value.
Environmental, social and governance considerations now determine how governments make policy, how financiers allocate capital and how communities judge development.
Purpose
The ESG & Sustainability platform exists to help clients embed sustainability into governance, strategy, operations and investment decisions.
Our approach extends beyond regulatory compliance. We help clients build resilient institutions, manage emerging risks, strengthen stakeholder confidence and create enduring economic, environmental and social value.
Why this matters
The expectations placed on organisations are changing rapidly. Investors increasingly evaluate ESG performance alongside financial performance, governments are strengthening environmental regulation and climate commitments, and communities expect meaningful participation and responsible development.
Customers increasingly favour organisations that demonstrate responsible business practices, and boards are expected to oversee sustainability risks with the same discipline applied to financial and operational risks.
Organisations that fail to respond face increasing exposure through:
- Reduced access to capital
- Regulatory intervention
- Community opposition
- Supply chain disruption
- Reputational damage
- Climate-related risks
- Governance failures
- Litigation and enforcement
Conversely, organisations that integrate sustainability into decision-making are better positioned to attract investment, strengthen resilience and create long-term value.
What we do
The ESG & Sustainability platform provides integrated advisory across the three pillars of sustainability together with strategic governance and responsible investment.
Environmental Stewardship
- Environmental governance
- Climate strategy
- Climate risk assessment
- Carbon markets
- Carbon credit projects
- Natural resource stewardship
- Biodiversity conservation
- Water stewardship
- Pollution prevention
- Circular economy strategies
- Environmental permitting
- Environmental compliance
Climate Finance & Energy Transition
- Green finance
- Sustainable finance
- Climate investment
- Transition finance
- Renewable energy investment
- Adaptation and resilience projects
- Blended finance
- Climate-related funding opportunities
Social Sustainability
- Human rights due diligence
- Community engagement
- Social impact assessments
- Stakeholder engagement strategies
- Local content
- Diversity, equity and inclusion
- Labour and workforce governance
- Responsible supply chains
- Social licence to operate
Governance Excellence
- Board governance
- Ethics and integrity frameworks
- Corporate governance reviews
- Risk governance
- Compliance systems
- Whistleblowing frameworks
- Anti-corruption programmes
- Governance reporting
- Institutional accountability
Responsible Investment
- ESG due diligence
- Responsible investment frameworks
- Sustainable infrastructure
- Green investment
- Development finance
- Impact investment
- Investment governance
- ESG integration into transactions
ESG Reporting & Disclosure
- Sustainability reporting
- ESG performance measurement
- Materiality assessments
- Board reporting
- Disclosure frameworks
- Assurance readiness
- Performance indicators
- Integrated reporting support
ESG in Strategic Transactions
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Project finance
- Infrastructure investments
- Mining developments
- Manufacturing expansion
- Supply chain investments
- Cross-border transactions
- Investment risk assessments
Institutional Sustainability
- Develop sustainability strategies
- Build ESG governance structures
- Strengthen organisational resilience
- Integrate sustainability into planning
- Improve long-term institutional performance
- Align operations with national and international sustainability objectives
Signature solutions
Defined pieces of work that address the needs this platform meets most often. Each can be scoped and commissioned on its own.
E&S Safeguards Compliance Programme
Compliance with the standards financiers actually apply, including the IFC Performance Standards, the AfDB Integrated Safeguards System and comparable frameworks, translated into environmental and social action plans, disbursement conditions and covenant reporting that survive supervision.
Gender-Lens Investment & 2X Alignment Review
An enterprise, fund or portfolio assessed against gender-lens investment criteria across ownership, leadership, employment, supply chain and product, with the governance, data and reporting built to evidence the position to investors. We bring practical experience of the same evidence standards that investors apply to advisers and portfolio companies.
Climate Strategy, Transition & Carbon Market Readiness Programme
Climate risks and opportunities identified, a practical transition and resilience strategy built, and carbon project eligibility, governance, contracting and revenue structures assessed for credible participation in carbon markets — including climate-smart production and financing structures that keep farms and agribusinesses productive, insurable and bankable.
How we deliver
- Understand the client's strategic objectives and stakeholder expectations
- Assess environmental, social, governance and regulatory risks
- Identify opportunities for long-term value creation
- Develop an integrated ESG and sustainability strategy
- Support implementation across governance, operations and investments
- Monitor performance, strengthen reporting and enhance accountability
- Promote continuous improvement and institutional resilience
Representative mandates
- Advising governments on ESG policy and regulatory frameworks
- Supporting financiers in responsible investment programmes
- Developing sustainability governance frameworks for boards
- Advising infrastructure and mining projects on stakeholder engagement and environmental governance
- Supporting climate finance and carbon market initiatives
- Conducting ESG due diligence for strategic investments
- Designing institutional sustainability strategies
Illustrative. Client names and commercial details are withheld where confidentiality obligations apply.
Why Ligomarc
Sustainability is ultimately about creating institutions and enterprises that remain trusted, resilient and competitive over the long term.
Ligomarc approaches ESG through the lens of strategy rather than compliance. We integrate expertise in governance, finance, infrastructure, energy, mining, manufacturing, technology, tax, disputes and public policy to help clients make sustainability a driver of institutional strength and commercial success.
Institutional experience applied. We have managed workforce transition, union engagement and pension exposure through a restructuring conducted under court supervision and in full public view. We have also designed and chaired disciplinary and complaints processes in a constitutional office. Those two experiences are the foundation of our approach to the social and governance dimensions of this platform: grievance mechanisms, integrity systems and just transition planning that are built to be used, not merely to be published.
Regional & continental frameworks
The Paris Agreement including Article 6; the AU Climate Change and Resilient Development Strategy; AU Agenda 2063 environmental sustainability aspirations; the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights; the AU Convention for the Protection and Assistance of Internally Displaced Persons, adopted at Kampala; the African Charter for African Cultural Renaissance; the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights; IFC Performance Standards and the Equator Principles; ISSB sustainability disclosure standards; national environmental and labour legislation.
Contribution to the African Purposes
Honours African Culture & Heritage by embedding context, legitimacy, stewardship and social licence into development projects. Advances African Institutional Stewardship through regulatory design, integrity systems and accountable governance. Advances African Continental Integration through regional ESG standards and sustainable investment frameworks. Supports African Family Businesses by bringing governance discipline into founder-led enterprises.
Who we serve on this platform
AIMS sectors
- Agriculture & Food Security
- Infrastructure, Utilities & Energy, including Oil & Gas
- Mining, Manufacturing & Industry
- Supply Chain & Trade
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