Insights

RSK Renewable Energy Director Mike Kelly explores the opportunity for offshore wind to contribute significantly to the UK’s response to the climate crisis and national energy demand. 

RSK’s Climate Realities series explores the effects of the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports across our global business.

Binnies Singapore and the RSK Centre for Sustainability Excellence discuss the impacts and challenges to consider when achieving climate resilience through smart city infrastructure.

To mark Earth Overshoot Day 2022, Lucy Thomas, RSK group Chief Scientist, sat down with colleagues from across the RSK family of businesses to discuss why this day is so important

Sara Blackmore has been Associate Director of RSK Asbestos for over a year, and describes the role as “extremely varied”.

Mark Smith, RSK’s Strategic Business Development Director in the water sector, assesses the current situation and explains the concept of the storm overflow system.

Across almost every continent, we now see pioneering governments taking up the mantle. And in Asia, Singapore leads the way.

Since March this year, Ellen Lapworth-Maisey has held the role of wellbeing and equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) manager at RSK

23 June is International Women in Engineering Day which celebrates and raises awareness of women’s careers in engineering disciplines.

From 13–17 June, the UK will mark Men’s Health Week, which is hosted annually by the Men’s Health Forum. The theme for this year is #ManMOT

eWATERservices has developed groundbreaking technology to ensure the supply of clean and safe water to communities across drought-prone Tanzania.

RSK’s Environment and Planning Divisional Director Sarah Mogford has been part of the RSK family for more than 20 years.

Later this year, world leaders will gather in Kunming, China, for the fifteenth meeting of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (COP15) to agree an ambitious Global Biodiversity Framework.

Why is healthy soil so important?
We rarely pay much attention to it, but the soil beneath our feet is the foundation of all Earth’s ecosystems.

Phillip Loseby is no stranger to incredible views. In his job as a Bridges and Structures Inspector for RSK business Up and Under, he’s used to witnessing sights from perspectives most of us will never even come close to.

As of April 2022, it is now mandatory in the United Kingdom for any company with 500+ employees and over £500 million in turnover to report climate-related financial data in line with the Task Force for Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) recommendations.

As populations grow, supplying sufficient amounts of nutrient-rich food will become a greater challenge.

Oil palm cultivation provides us with a vital commodity that is used around the globe in products from foodstuffs to cosmetics, but it is also one that presents a number of sustainability and environmental challenges.

Green bond sales rocketed across Asia–Pacific in 2021. USD 185.22 billion of green debt was sold in one year alone, representing a 117% increase from 2020.

Sustainability extends far beyond the solutions offered to clients: it is central to all areas of work from sourcing to delivery. David Holland at Salix, an RSK group company, explains why it is so crucial to ensure the solutions offered to clients support sustainable practices across the whole value chain.

South East Asia has been a driving force behind Asia’s rapid economic growth in recent decades. The ten Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) economies are home to 650 million people and a three trillion USD economy, growing at an average 5% per year over the past 20 years.

An introduction to BNG.
Biodiversity is an issue that has risen up the development policy agenda in recent years. In 2018, the UK government first consulted on making biodiversity net gain (BNG) mandatory for new development through the planning system and included provisions for mandatory BNG in the 2021 Environment Act.

RSK’s joint venture eWATERservices is committed to solving one of humanity’s biggest challenges: the sustainable provision of water across Africa.

Our recent C-suite survey suggests the majority of businesses (73%) are ready to report from 6 April, but we scratched beneath this optimism to see how the Task Force for Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) is really perceived by the business community.

Today is World Water Day, and the theme this year is “Groundwater: Making the invisible visible”. But what exactly is groundwater and why is it so critical?

Environmental consultancy firm Amphos 21 has offices in Spain, Chile and Peru and offers scientific and strategic environmental consulting to the nuclear, mining, water resources, sustainability and oil and gas sectors.

Binnies Principal Leakage Consultant Colin Cox discusses his career and day-to-day. He has worked in water networks for more than 30 years.

RSK’s Green Dialogues series successfully culminated in our event, “RSK live from COP26: Greening the Blue Chips” on 10 November.

We are in the run up to COP26 at which the UK government will play host to the most critical meeting of its kind to date.