ESG & Impact

Bioenergy creates more positive SDG impacts per kWh of electricity than any other source of renewable energy

Lasting impact from long-term direct employment, and indirect energy grid benefits

  • Employment: 5.5 direct employees per MW

  • Growth: Electricity access is a key driver of economic growth: the most potent force for poverty alleviation​

  • Health: Benefits from replacing kerosene and open fires, particularly for women and children​

  • Clean Energy: High-quality baseload electricity and heat

  • Plantations: supports plantations and carbon sinks by improving revenues for forestry and cane farmers​

  • Distributed/rural: Distributed bio-electricity generation stabilises the grid, and drives electrification: ​high impact in under-served rural areas

  • Modern processes: Supports development of modern agricultural and forestry processing

  • Environment: ​Reduces waste and adverse local impacts from agricultural and wood residuals​

  • Carbon efficiency: facilitating energy efficiency in Agri and forest value chains and providing clean baseload for mini-grids. Mitigates climate change

Integrated Impact and ESG Reporting

Proper and extensive ESG, H&S and Impact reporting are equally important as financial reporting.  There is a myriad of impact and ESG reporting standards, being complicated by individual development banks and international organisations having separate reporting requirements.  NAB Partners developed an integrated Environmental and Social Impact reporting system based around Global Reporting Initiative’s G4 and Global Impact Investor Network’s IRIS. At the same time, it took FSC, DFI reporting requirements, IFC performance standards and carbon reporting into consideration, greatly simplifying and enhancing the usefulness of the overall reporting, making it a key part of day-to-day operations.

FSC Certification and Operationalisation

FSC is the world's leading standard for sustainable forest management and a foundation for successful greenfield forest plantations because it:

  • Facilitates organisational decentralisation and hiring of local professionals

  • Supports the creation of high-quality forest

  • Monitors community relations

  • Ensures high environmental standards

FSC audits can be used as key management tools for improvement of the forestry operations and measure of operational performance.  NAB Partners have worked with FSC as an integral part of forestry operations for more than a decade.