Sustainability and ESG Solutions

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Our solutions support leaders, executives, and decision makers in meeting compliance requirements, strengthening resilience, and identifying opportunities that improve performance while reducing risk and negative impacts on society and the environment. With expertise spanning finance and economics, governance, climate science, engineering, and stakeholder engagement, our teams are uniquely positioned to bridge advisory with technical execution—supporting the development of sustainability strategies that are practical and action‑oriented.

Navigating today’s sustainability landscape

Companies, public agencies, and investors face growing expectations to manage, deliver, and disclose on sustainability and climate commitments. Sustainability performance shapes reputation, mitigates risk, and builds resilience.

We are committed to collaborating with our clients to manage interconnected sustainability impacts and develop customized solutions that align with their strategic goals. Paired with our Future Ready® approach, our tailored services can address each client's unique needs and objectives, delivering cost savings, greater resilience, and heightened regulatory compliance through the integration of our comprehensive sustainability and climate services into their projects.

At WSP, we can help you:

Comply with leading sustainability frameworks and emerging regulations
Manage sustainability and climate risks across operations, supply chains, and investments
Strengthen stakeholder confidence with compliant disclosures
Build strategies that align regulation with opportunity and business value

How we work with you

Every sustainability journey is unique. We tailor our support to your priorities — from regulatory compliance to full resilience strategies. Our deep experience across core environmental, social, and governance matters – from biodiversity and climate change to Indigenous relations and social impact – combined with our advisory expertise, enables us to plan, engineer, and implement end-to-end service and solutions for any complex context or challenge.

Our sustainability and climate advisory services include:

Strategy Development
Target and Goal Setting
Governance Systems and Policy Development
Transition and Action Planning
Risk Assessment and Materiality
Performance Analysis and Program Design
Executive Engagement and Training
Reporting and Disclosure

Environmental

From climate change to local environmental impacts, WSP’s sustainability professionals help clients manage an array of environmental risks and opportunities and build a more resilient future.

We help clients prioritize environmental and climate impacts and create and implement solutions that lead to positive impact.

Social

Whether workforce, value chain, or local communities, understanding and managing social impact is a critical consideration for every project and organization.

By collaborating closely with communities, Indigenous groups, and local stakeholders, we help our clients successfully manage social impact, mitigate risk, and address inequity so that they can deliver long-term success and positive outcomes for the communities in which they operate.

Governance

By combining strategic consulting with technical expertise, we develop strategies and governance systems for our clients that ground big-picture thinking and planning in implementation and execution.

We provide clients with tailored solutions to enable them to operationalize plans and governance principles at every level of their organization or project.

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Insights

Nature-Based Solutions For Our Nature-Positive Journey

The path to net zero carbon is nature-positive. We can tackle climate change, restore nature and support our communities.

Climate Action Requires Equitable Finance

Stacy Swann and Darius Nassiry explain why ensuring climate finance reaches the most vulnerable is better for everyone.

Managing ESG critical to the future of mining in Africa

Coinciding with the African Mining Indaba, Sean Doel and Ralph Heath discuss the practicalities that mining houses must consider to embed ESG best-practice at every level of the value chain.

Explore our service offering

WSP's greatest impact on a more sustainable and resilient society and environment is through our services and advice to clients.

Why WSP

WSP combines boardroom insight with deep technical expertise, helping make sustainability strategies credible and deliverable. We connect strategy with implementation, giving organizations confidence that their goals, plans, and roadmaps will achieve measurable results.

Multidisciplinary expertise: Advisory, engineering, science, policy, and finance
Global scale, local insight: Over 75,000 experts delivering projects on every continent
Trusted by industry leaders: Delivering resilience and value across sectors worldwide

Feature projects

Chicago, Illinois, USA

Working on Climate Action in Chicago

City’s new comprehensive plan sets ambitious goals to reduce carbon emissions, advance equity and environmental justice, improve community health and resilience, and increase household savings.

Copenhagen, Denmark

Copenhagen Climate Adaptation Project

Harrestrup River (Harrestrup Å) in Vigerslev Park (Vigerslevparken) is about to undergo a major transformation. The City of Copenhagen's Technical and Environmental Department aims to combine climate adaptation with biodiversity enhancements and increased recreational value throughout the site.

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Making health a priority for UK communities

Health and wellbeing is at the heart of our work with UK local authorities, replacing the decades-old obsession with single-occupancy car movement. Our street design guidance is helping councils create compact, sociable neighborhoods, while our active transportation advice seeks to take advantage of the cycling and walking boom since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. The hope is that many of the lessons learnt will remain long after the pandemic subsides, and that we can respond positively to seismic shifts in how we use the spaces around us. This will enable us to promote healthier lifestyles and cater for diverse communities, while tackling carbon impacts.

Sustainability and Climate Solutions