Green Due Diligence
Early-stage risk screening for land and property development.
Green Due Diligence (GDD) screens a site for the nature and environment-related risks that quietly determine whether a project hits its timeline, its volumes, and its margins. By surfacing those risks before the business case is signed off, GDD lets you price them in, or walk away, instead of discovering them mid-investigation, when it's already too late to renegotiate.
Why nature-related risks belong in the early business case.
Wetlands, protected biotopes, soil conditions, climate exposure. Any one of these can trigger permit processes with long lead times, season-bound surveys, volume restrictions, or outright project stops. The problem isn't the regulation itself; it's when it shows up. By the time the risks surface in the formal investigation phase, the land is bought, the business case is built, and the only option left is to absorb the cost.
For developers, that means timelines that slip, square meters that disappear from the plan, and exposure to EU Taxonomy and SFDR criteria that can affect both financing and reputation. The traditional sequence of buying first and investigating later leaves the most expensive risks for last.
Site screening that turns open data into a risk profile.
GDD combines 100+ open and proprietary datasets, including wetlands, biotopes, soil, climate risk, and the legal frameworks attached to each, and runs them through a scoring model that produces a clear risk profile for the site. Each layer is scored, summed, and translated into something a decision-maker can act on: a numerical risk score, a category (clear go, investigate further, or stop), and a Value-at-Risk figure in square meters that flags the area you may not be able to build on.
The output isn't a long-form consultancy report. It's a structured deliverable, available as PDF, Excel, or via API, that covers the identified risks, their legal basis, a recommendation for next steps, and where relevant, a Taxonomy and SFDR screening. From here, the risks are priceable, the timeline is defensible, and the conversation with the municipality starts on solid ground.
When to use Green Due Diligence.
GDD is built for the points in the property cycle where a wrong assumption about the land becomes expensive:
- Before buying raw land for development. Know what you're acquiring before you commit.
- Before acquiring an existing property to redevelop. See what your redevelopment plans will actually trigger.
- Before starting development on land you already own. Size investigations and permit work before they become path-dependent.
- Before divesting a property. Understand the risks a buyer will surface, and price them in yourself.
