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To turn the world’s industrial liabilities into regenerative assets that restore ecosystems, protect communities, and unlock sustainable economic value.
Industrial site remediation is trapped in a cycle of slow, data-poor planning and weak accountability. The result is persistent environmental harm, stalled projects, and cost estimates that can miss by up to 100 percent. Capital stays on the sidelines, communities live with risk, and valuable land cannot be repurposed.
1) Planning paralysis
Remediation planning typically consumes 12 to 24 months before any field action begins. Work starts with fragmented reports and late technical studies, so teams commit early to plans that later prove unworkable or unnecessarily expensive. Critical risks identified in risk assessments are rarely costed explicitly, and are often buried inside a single contingency line.
2) Data scarcity and fragmentation
Legacy sites lack reliable operational records. To understand the problem, teams must reconstruct decades of environmental and engineering history, then fill large evidence gaps across hydrology, geotechnical stability, and contaminant behaviour. This forensic workload slows decisions and inflates uncertainty.
3) Financial opacity
Disclosure of decommissioning and restoration is inconsistent, and methodologies vary site to site. Many operators still “guess and gross-up” with percentage contingencies, leading to provisions that are frequently revised late in the site's lifecycle. The absence of comparable, investment-grade costings makes remediation hard to finance.
4) Social outcomes without leverage
Companies often state a desire for a “positive legacy”, but there is rarely a clear, site-specific social vision with measurable criteria. Regulators and communities have limited leverage to secure outcomes, and internal project teams struggle to defend social budgets without a robust financial narrative.
5) Scale of the environmental liability
Our industrial legacy has contaminated vast tracts of land and water globally. Metal mining has contaminated an estimated ~480,000 kilometres of river channels and ~164,000 square kilometres of floodplains, with millions of people living on affected floodplains. This is a systemic issue.
Bottom line: Without a faster, evidence-rich, and financially transparent planning process, our industrial liabilities will remain stranded. The world needs a platform that creates a single source of truth from scattered data, makes risk explicit, and aligns environmental, social, and financial outcomes to make restoration investable.
