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.

Content Hub

Insight

Defense or offense: Sustainability and “complementary football” in private credit

07 November 2026

10 minutes read

This article explores the concept of "complementary football" and how sustainability can serve as both a defensive and offensive strategy in private credit investing. While lenders traditionally focus on risk mitigation, sustainability-related factors can also drive growth, strengthen cash flows, and enhance borrower resilience.

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.

Ryan Weymark

Global Minerals & Metals Director

Global

Biography

Ryan is a mining executive, entrepreneur, and professional engineer with extensive experience in mine development, corporate strategy, mergers and acquisitions, and building successful mining and professional services businesses. His career spans consulting, contracting and mine ownership, giving him experience across the mining lifecycle, from technical due diligence and economic studies through to permitting, construction, and operations across precious metals, base metals, and energy minerals.

Having also held executive and board positions across several publicly traded mining companies, Ryan brings a deep understanding of the technical, financial, and operational challenges faced by mine owners and developers, and the critical role of integrated technical consulting and advisory services in navigating them.

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Industry focuses

Mining