INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL CONSULTANCY
Navigating complexity. Protecting what matters.
The bridge where legal advice meets real-world delivery. Veld and Vale is an expert advisory practice that oversees international compliance, coordinates specialist teams, and drives policy and research — ensuring sustainability objectives are met across jurisdictions in the energy, infrastructure, mining, construction and sports sectors.
Principal Advisor
Samantha Martin
Advocate · Environmental Counsel
International Consultancy Founder
Carbon · Biodiversity · ESG · Infrastructure · Mining · Global Sports
Environmental Counsel · Strategic Advisory
Industries at the frontier of environmental obligation
We work with organisations navigating complex environmental, social, and regulatory terrain — from project inception through to operational compliance and board-level governance. Beyond advisory, we develop policy and lead research that shapes how sustainability obligations are understood and met.
Energy
Renewable and conventional energy producers managing environmental authorisations, carbon commitments, and regulatory interfaces.
Infrastructure
Road, rail, ports, and utilities developers requiring biodiversity offset planning, co-management frameworks, and project coordination.
Mining
Mining houses and juniors seeking credible, technically grounded advisory on offset obligations, social compacts, and ESG disclosure.
Construction
Contractors and developers integrating environmental best-practice, training, and policy compliance into project delivery cycles..
Environmental Counsel · Strategic Advisory
Beyond compliance: Africa's transition in practice
As Africa navigates the Just Energy Transition, a maturing carbon credit market, and the National Biodiversity Offset Guidelines, organisations need more than an understanding of the rules — they need to know what these frameworks mean on the ground.
We advise on the practical implications of each: how a just transition reshapes operational and workforce realities, how to participate in carbon markets with integrity, and how offset obligations translate into workable commitments.
Our focus is implementation, not box-ticking — turning policy and compliance into decisions your organisation can act on with confidence.
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ESG at director level
Governance that goes beyond the checkbox
Directors in extractive and infrastructure sectors face growing personal exposure from environmental and social governance failures. Our ESG training and mentorship builds the substantive knowledge boards need — not just to comply, but to lead.
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Environmental
Climate risk governance, biodiversity disclosure, TCFD and TNFD alignment, carbon accounting fundamentals, permit condition oversight, and environmental liability at board level. We translate technical environmental obligations into governance language that directors can act on.
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Social
Community engagement oversight, free prior and informed consent (FPIC), social licence to operate, human rights due diligence, grievance mechanism design, and benefit-sharing governance. We help boards understand what meaningful social performance looks like — and how to verify it.
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Governance
ESG committee structuring, board information flows on environmental risk, integrated reporting oversight, anti-greenwash governance, and stakeholder accountability. We work with chairs and audit committee members to embed ESG into the governance architecture — not just the sustainability report.
Our Approach
How we engage
Every engagement is structured around your specific context, regulatory environment, and commercial objectives. We do not offer templated advice — we coordinate, facilitate, and advise with precision.
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Diagnostic
We begin with a structured diagnostic of your environmental obligations, governance posture, and strategic exposure — mapping gaps and prioritising opportunities for the engagement ahead.
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Expert Assembly
Where specialist technical input is required, we identify and brief the right experts — ecologists, climate scientists, economists — coordinating their work into coherent, integrated deliverables.
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Advisory & Training
We deliver our advisory, training, or research through the medium most useful to you — workshop, written report, board briefing, or ongoing retainer support aligned to project milestones.
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Ongoing Mentorship
For executive and board clients, we offer structured mentorship throughout a project lifecycle — building internal capacity so your team leads with environmental intelligence, not just compliance.