Industries

The major sectors EnviroStrat works in include marine, fisheries and aquaculture, energy, freshwater, and government. The nature of assignments varies from developing strategy and policy, through to major business growth initiatives and mergers and acquisitions.

Marine, Fisheries & Aquaculture

EnviroStrat has extensive experience in strategy and policy development and evaluation, economics, and major programme management in the coastal and marine sector. This includes:

  • Impact Investment feasibility in the seafood sector
  • Policy work with the United Nations and World Bank
  • Marine Spatial Planning
  • Deep Sea Mining

EnviroStrat Managing Director Dr Nigel Bradly is New Zealand’s most qualified person in the marine policy field, having completed a doctorate at the prestigious Center for the Study of Marine Policy in the United States – the only such programme in the world.

In addition to extensive work in New Zealand and United States public and private sector organisations, EnviroStrat has been retained by the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of the United Nations. In the role of lead author of the cross-United Nations agency initiative titled A Blueprint for Ocean and Coastal Sustainability, EnviroStrat drafted proposals for the future of management and protection of the worlds coasts and oceans for the Global Conference on Sustainable Development, held in Rio de Janeiro in June 2012.

Dr Bradly was a member of the New Zealand delegation to the first UN meeting dedicated to assessing nations progress in implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. He provided expert input relating to non point source pollution, cross-boundary (onshore-offshore, Territorial Sea – EEZ – High Seas) challenges, and the New Zealand Resource Management framework.

At a more practical level, Dr Bradly has undertaken numerous initiatives in the sector, including:

  • Leading the writing team for New Zealand’s first Marine Spatial Plan
  • Leading the response to a proposal for deep sea phosphate mining on behalf of tribes and the fishing sector
  • Leading development of a business plan for global rollout of Fisheries Performance Indicators on behalf of the World Bank Group

Freshwater

The freshwater sector is one of the most high profile and most controversial in the broader environment sector.

The EnviroStrat team has worked with public and private sector clients in a range of components of freshwater management, including:

  • Organisational and programme evaluation
  • Creating and executing central government strategy
  • Impact investment
  • Preparation of a Restoration Strategy for the Waikato and Waipa catchments
  • Watershed management planning and implementation in both New Zealand and the United States
  • Complex stakeholder engagement regarding a major hydro-electricity proposal

Energy & Resources

EnviroStrat has worked in the energy and resources sector in multiple countries, including strategic planning, business growth and development of new management systems.

Previous projects include:

  • Mobilising a cross-national wind farm development initiative
  • Developing an Environmental Management Strategy for a major resources company
  • Running the integration for a multi-billion dollar merger between two U.S power generators
  • Developing a joint venture between two demand-side energy technology providers
  • Leading the strategic business planning process for a Middle Eastern power generation facility
  • Running a major evaluation of the lead government agency responsible for oil, gas and mineral permitting in New Zealand

Government

EnviroStrat has worked with, and engaged government entities for the past two decades. This has included working with:

  • regional councils and several central government agencies in New Zealand
  • several State Owned Enterprises in New Zealand
  • local, state and federal agencies in the United States
  • United Nations and the World Bank Group

Very deep understanding of the workings of government included a doctoral dissertation that provided an in-depth institutional evaluation of the factors that influence government’s ability to implement core functions.

EnviroStrat was invited by the British Foreign Office to present to the Indonesian Government on the experience of New Zealand in creating and implementing green growth initiatives.

The type of work undertaken has included:

  • Strategy and public policy development in multiple sectors
  • Independent programme review and institutional evaluation, leading to regulatory change and intervention
  • Project management, including implementing change mandated by regulatory intervention
  • Jointly working between different levels of government and the private sector to bring differing perspectives together