Sustainability Solutions

Solving your sustainability challenges

We help organisations to make the optimal decision, to act with conviction and to deliver with certainty in an uncertain world. We ensure our clients can balance environmental, social and commercial priorities, creating long-term value for their business and stakeholders.

Sectors

Supporting all sectors

SLR supports a wide range of industry sectors, partnering with organisations facing some of the world's toughest sustainability challenges. Working alongside clients locally while drawing on expertise from across the globe, we bring knowledge of acute challenges together with proven solutions from across sectors and geographies.

Services

Project partnership

We collaborate with clients throughout their project life-cycle, helping them chart their strategic path, protect their assets, strengthen operational resilience and deliver important projects.

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Insight

SBTi Corporate Net-Zero Standard Version 2.0

17 September 2026

12 minutes read

The new Corporate Net-Zero Standard is published. If you're a CSO, CFO or sustainability lead, you've probably caught fragments of what it says, and you’re wondering what it means for you, without the time to read it cover to cover.

About

Our mission

SLR’s purpose is Making Sustainability Happen.

We achieve this by bringing together strategic advisory expertise, deep scientific and engineering knowledge grounded in real-world experience, and trusted data and digital capabilities. Together, these integrated strengths help clients weigh risk, reward and resilience and move from ambition to practical action that delivers measurable, lasting impact.

Grant Benn

Practice Leader - Geospatial & Data Solutions

Middle East & Africa

Biography

Grant Benn has considerable (over 30 years) experience applying geospatial analysis technologies across a wide range of sectors. These sectors include biodiversity conservation, environmental management, conservation planning, environmental and biodiversity screening, and renewable energy.

He has led and contributed to numerous projects as a technical Geospatial specialist, delivering expertise in spatial data development, spatial analysis and modelling (vector, raster and 3D) and the design, implementation and maintenance of enterprise spatial information systems. Grant led the development and implementation of SLR’s proprietary biodiversity and environmental geographic screening tool. He has also collaborated on the development of SLR’s site selection and linear route optimisation tool, including contributing to the development of supporting spatial databases. Grant has extensive experience in screening, site selection, and route optimisation for major linear and non-linear infrastructure projects. His portfolio includes pipelines, onshore and offshore wind farms, solar energy developments, harbour infrastructure, mining operations, hydroelectric plants, railways, and road networks.

Grant has worked on projects across Africa, including Namibia, Lesotho, Swaziland, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Tanzania, Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritius, Mozambique, Ghana, Ethiopia, Egypt, Senegal, Libya, Rwanda, Burundi and South Africa. Outside of Africa, project experience includes Nepal and Tajikistan.

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Service focuses

Industry focuses

Energy

Solution focuses

Energy Transition