Environment & Climate Change
Environmental management and climate change adaptation are now business imperatives. As risks abound and litigation increases, clients turn to HKA for specialist scientific support.
Mounting environmental risks
The transition to carbon neutrality exposes businesses to unprecedented scrutiny from regulators, investors and consumers. HKA’s pioneering Environment & Climate practice has assembled a global team of over 150 experts with the diverse skills needed to provide comprehensive solutions for all environmental challenges.
Our experts – working in teams, where appropriate, with colleagues from across our multi-disciplinary firm – help clients navigate risks ranging from stranded assets and class actions to compliance penalties and unforeseen liabilities.
As environmental and climate-related cases increase in variety as well as volume, HKA’s support is necessarily wide-ranging, addressing challenges including:
- Environmental impact assessment
- Risk & contamination to air, land & water
- Waste management hazards and facilities
- Emerging contaminants (e.g. PFAS)
- Investor-state disputes
- Class actions & greenwashing claims
- ESG strategy & reporting
- Climate-related structural damage
- Insurance claims & loss assessment
- Regulatory investigations
Why HKA
Our experts help clients avoid disputes and manage risks, as well as supporting them through arbitration, adjudication and litigation. Eminent specialists in their fields, they combine industry insights with the well-honed testifying and presentational skills critical for communication and credibility.
We have handled complex environmental case across the globe – from a hurricane-hit oil refinery to international Energy Charter Treaty arbitrations, and from alleged ‘forever chemicals’ contamination to stranded assets.
Our Environment & Climate practice resolves the challenges facing clients across five broad areas:
Tighter regulations and landmark court decisions are transforming compliance requirements and compensation rights. Our team of air and noise experts includes specialists in industrial air emissions and air quality assessment, management and modelling.
Contaminated land can be a lottery with missed hotspots, historic contaminants mobilised during remediation or construction, bounce-back risks for sellers, and indemnities for unknown liabilities. HKA commands the diverse expertise needed to achieve certainty.
Pollutant-free water is a human right driving regulation, enforcement and litigation. Our expertise spans onshore and offshore, clean and dirty water assessment from a position of global leadership in policy and science.
Waste is both a potential hazard to human health and a material resource. Amid tightening legislation, we are supporting clients in disputes over the definition of waste, asbestos, forever chemicals, landfill reuse, waste facility construction and project stewardship, among other issues.
Waste is both a potential hazard to human health and a material resource. Amid tightening legislation, we are supporting clients in disputes over the definition of waste, asbestos, forever chemicals, landfill reuse, waste facility construction and project stewardship, among other issues.
Tighter regulations and landmark court decisions are transforming compliance requirements and compensation rights. Our team of air and noise experts includes specialists in industrial air emissions and air quality assessment, management and modelling.
Contaminated land can be a lottery with missed hotspots, historic contaminants mobilised during remediation or construction, bounce-back risks for sellers, and indemnities for unknown liabilities. HKA commands the diverse expertise needed to achieve certainty.
Pollutant-free water is a human right driving regulation, enforcement and litigation. Our expertise spans onshore and offshore, clean and dirty water assessment from a position of global leadership in policy and science.
Waste is both a potential hazard to human health and a material resource. Amid tightening legislation, we are supporting clients in disputes over the definition of waste, asbestos, forever chemicals, landfill reuse, waste facility construction and project stewardship, among other issues.
Waste is both a potential hazard to human health and a material resource. Amid tightening legislation, we are supporting clients in disputes over the definition of waste, asbestos, forever chemicals, landfill reuse, waste facility construction and project stewardship, among other issues.
Complementary services
Our environmental services can also draw on HKA’s global network of forensic experts in other technical fields – from the built environment to financial accounting and digital analytics. They provide complementary services in diverse areas such as:
- Project delay, disruption and quantum analysis
- Strategy at enterprise, project and case level
- Climate adaptation and resilience
- Responsible sourcing & producer responsibility
- Damage assessment & valuation of losses
