Notes on Heritage Risk.
Practical commentary for sponsors, EPC contractors, environmental and social advisors and planning teams.
Climate Risk to Heritage: The Risk Nobody Is Measuring
Climate change is a compounding risk to heritage that rarely reaches a financed project's baseline. Why it goes unmeasured, and where it belongs.
Read the article →Heritage Disaster Risk: Planning for What You Cannot Rebuild
The disaster that does the most lasting harm to heritage is often not the collapsed wall but the lost record. Planning for what cannot be rebuilt.
Read the article →Carrying Capacity Is Not a Headcount
Carrying capacity is not a visitor cap. Damage concentrates at a few fragile points. Managing it is fragility times footfall, not headcount.
Read the article →What the Borehole Knows: Geotechnics and Heritage
Ground investigation and heritage protection overlap more than either profession admits. How the borehole already holds heritage data.
Read the article →Restoration Is the Start, Not the Finish
Restoration is a starting condition, not a finish line. Why heritage funded without a stewardship plan is money at risk.
Read the article →When Resettlement Meets the Graves
Graves fall between the resettlement standard and the heritage standard. Why moving them is a cultural and legal task, not a clearance item.
Read the article →Consultation Is Not a Signature
A signed attendance sheet is not consent. Why consultation treated as a form, not a relationship, moves heritage risk downstream.
Read the article →What Lenders Actually Check on Cultural Heritage
The evidence chain an independent reviewer walks, behind IFC PS8 and EBRD ESR 8, and where it usually breaks.
Read the article →Heritage Risk Starts at Exploration, Not Construction
In mining, heritage is usually managed at construction. By then the most dangerous phase, exploration, has already passed.
Read the article →You Have to Show There Is No Heritage, Not Just Say So
On a financed project you are asked to demonstrate there is no heritage, not assert it. Why a clean survey result is an asset, not a wasted cost.
Read the article →Derisking Is a Decision, Not a Caveat
The heritage risk that sinks a project is the one noted in the assumptions register that nobody owned. Three questions that reshape the whole response.
Read the article →The Five Heritage Risks That Derail Mining Projects
Heritage risk does not stop at permitting. It compounds across the mine lifecycle, from consultation through chance finds, tailings and closure. The five failure points, and how they happen.
Read the article →PS8, ESS8 and ESR 8: the practical differences
How the major lender heritage standards diverge in practice, and what that means for your documentation.
Read the article →Juukan Gorge and the Limits of Legal Compliance
Rio Tinto destroyed 46,000 years of heritage at Juukan Gorge, legally. Why a permit is not protection, and legal compliance is the floor, not the defence.
Read the article →Cultural Heritage Does Not Stop at the Waterline
Offshore cultural heritage is appraised to a narrower standard than heritage on land, yet the lender standards do not stop at the waterline. The exposure that matters is the intangible half.
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