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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Flamingos in a desert landscape in Chile

Insight

Permisos ambientales en Chile: de un desafío regulatorio a una estrategia para viabilizar grandes proyectos

09 November 2026

6 minutes read

Chile enfrenta una oportunidad significativa para convertir su potencial minero, energético y de infraestructura en nuevas inversiones. Una planificación temprana, antecedentes robustos y una visión integrada de ingeniería, territorio y permisos pueden contribuir a procesos de evaluación más eficientes y predecibles.

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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.

Luke Stephens

Manager - ESG

USA

Biography

Luke Stephens is a senior ESG and social performance advisor with more than 25 years of international experience across Africa, the Americas, Eastern Europe, Central Asia, and Southeast Asia. He specializes in lender due diligence and Independent Environmental and Social Consultant (IESC) roles, supporting compliance with IFC Performance Standards, Equator Principles IV, and IRMA. Luke provides strategic advice on social performance, Indigenous relations, stakeholder engagement, land access, resettlement, and community risk management. His experience includes operational and leadership roles at mine sites globally, bringing practical insight to responsible resource development and community-mine relations.

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Service focuses

Mining Advisory

Solution focuses

Social Impact