Capital is more selective than ever. Whether you're developing a new project, raising finance, evaluating an acquisition, or allocating investment across a portfolio, success depends on understanding risk before it impacts value. ERM helps mining companies, investors, and lenders carefully evaluate assets’ risks, strengthen investment cases, and deploy capital with greater confidence.
Critical minerals are now embedded in the value chains of the world's fastest-growing and most strategically important industries, including AI, advanced data centres, electrification, energy storage and national security.
As governments and investors race to secure reliable supplies of these materials, expectations of mining companies are rising beyond resource quality and production volumes.
Economic success increasingly depends on a company's ability to develop projects responsibly, manage environmental and social impacts, build stakeholder trust and demonstrate long-term resilience.
Embedding sustainability into strategy and decision-making is becoming a prerequisite for growth, helping companies attract investment, secure permits, strengthen their licence to operate and bring projects online faster, while reducing barriers to capital, approvals and long-term value creation.
Recorded on 14 October 2026, this webinar explores how changing sustainability expectations are reshaping access to capital in the mining sector.
The discussion brings together Louise Pearce, Global Leader of Sustainability and Risk, ERM; Silvio Lima, Chief Sustainability Officer, Appian; and Ignacio de Calonje, Chief Investment Officer & Sustainable Finance Lead, IFC, moderated by Conor Grieve, ERM.
Together, they explore the new pools of capital entering mining, what investors and financiers expect from companies seeking funding, and the sustainability readiness gaps that can influence access to capital and the terms on which it is provided.
Watch the recording for practical perspectives on what mining companies need to demonstrate to attract investment and finance.
In today's mining sector, investors and lenders are evaluating more than resource quality and production potential. They want confidence that projects can navigate permitting, manage environmental and social risks, secure stakeholder support and deliver long-term value in an increasingly complex operating environment. ERM helps mining companies build that confidence through an integrated approach that combines technical, sustainability, geopolitical and value chain expertise. By identifying risks and opportunities early, quantifying their impact on project value, and translating complex findings into boardroom-ready insights, we help clients strengthen investment cases, secure financing and attract the capital needed to grow.
ERM turns technical mining data into actionable orebody intelligence that uncovers value opportunities and strengthens decision-making. By clarifying risks and reducing uncertainty, it supports better investment, development and operational outcomes.
Permitting, community consent, environmental performance and financing are managed as one lifecycle plan, not separate workstreams. This accelerates approvals, strengthens stakeholder confidence and keeps projects on schedule with financing and regulatory requirements aligned.
Once operations begin, the focus shifts to protecting people, performance and licence to operate through stronger safety, compliance and workforce capability. This reduces disruptions, improves regulatory performance and preserves asset value while maintaining stable production throughout the mine life.
Closure outcomes are shaped decades before a mine stops producing, so we help owners understand and reduce liabilities early through progressive rehabilitation and long-term planning. The result is lower closure risk, greater financial certainty and a clear path to sustainable relinquishment.
In a transaction, fragmented advice slows everything down. ERM consolidates technical, ESG, political and value-chain assessment into one view, quantified inside the valuation model rather than appended to it. A single accountable M&A team delivers boardroom-ready analysis spelling out what each issue means for price, structure and post-deal commitments — so investment committees move with conviction and speed.
We connect operational, environmental and sustainability data to improve transparency, strengthen reporting and support better risk-based decisions. Our team identifies high-value AI opportunities, from predictive insights to workflow automation, while ensuring solutions align with enterprise architecture, cybersecurity, governance and data requirements.
Helping organizations understand how risk impacts valuation, financing, execution certainty, and long-term performance.
Advising miners, investors, lenders, and strategic partners throughout the investment lifecycle.
Combining environmental, social, regulatory, technical, closure, and stakeholder considerations in a single view of asset risk.
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