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For lenders, regulators and operators

Review a submitted assessment against the standards you choose

Standards include the International Finance Corporation Performance Standards and the Equator Principles. For each requirement the artificial intelligence quotes the passages it finds, with the document and paragraph, and your reviewer records the finding. The same standard is applied to every review.

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A reviewer opens a requirement of the Infrastructure Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations 2017, reads what the evidence review found, and scrolls through the passages quoted from the submission, each with the document and section it came from. Hartsmoor Solar Farm is a fictional demo project.

How a review runs

Upload the submission, choose the standards and work through the evidence requirement by requirement.

The review is set up in the reviewer’s own workspace with the review type, the standards and the proponent, and the submission is uploaded into it. The platform copies each standard’s published requirements into the review. For each one the artificial intelligence reports what it found in the submission, cites the paragraphs it relied on and quotes the passages with the document each came from.

The reviewer records the finding for each requirement with a note, and gives a reason wherever the finding departs from what the evidence review reported. The reviewer decides every finding.

The overview of an independent review named Hartsmoor Solar Farm environmental and social due diligence, showing review progress, the standards it is reviewed against, document completeness and the review setup with proponent, jurisdiction, review type and category.
A review set up against the Equator Principles, the International Finance Corporation Performance Standards and the Common Approaches of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, with the category the reviewer recorded and a count of the expected documents provided.
A requirement card in an independent review. It shows the requirement text, the evidence status Partially addressed, what the evidence review found, quoted passages from the Outline Construction Environmental Management Plan with their paragraph numbers, and the reviewer’s recorded finding with her note.
A requirement of the International Finance Corporation Performance Standards with what the evidence review found in the submission, citing the paragraphs it relied on, the passages it quotes with the document each came from, and the finding the reviewer recorded.
A lender’s review of the Hartsmoor Environmental Statement against the International Finance Corporation Performance Standards and the Equator Principles: the evidence found for each requirement, the reviewer’s findings, the gap register and action plan, and the Gap Assessment Report.

Findings and the gap assessment report

Gaps tracked to closure, and a Gap Assessment Report for the decision.

A gap raised from a requirement carries its severity, the corrective action, an owner and a due date, and the gap register is the action plan. Information requests to the proponent are tied to the requirements they will answer. The Gap Assessment Report is assembled from the review, approved by a named reviewer and exported to Word, and the register exports to Word and to a workbook with the source of each row.

The Findings and actions screen listing the gaps raised in the review, each with a reference, severity, the requirement it relates to, the corrective action, the owner, the due date and the status.
The gap register, which is also the action plan: each gap with its severity, the corrective action, who owns it, when it is due and its status.

Lender due diligence

Due diligence before a lending decision, then monitoring against the agreed action plan.

The due diligence review records the category and the reasons for it, works through the Performance Standards and the Equator Principles, and ends in the Gap Assessment Report. A review set up as annual monitoring or action plan tracking runs on the same record, so each year’s monitoring reports are read against the same requirements and the gaps are closed and verified in the register.

For lenders and development finance institutions

A page of the exported Gap Assessment Report showing the gap register table with reference, severity, requirement, finding, corrective action, owner, due date and status.
The Gap Assessment Report exported to Word, with the gap register as its action plan.

Reviewing a submitted application

The same standard for every submission, with quoted passages for the officer to examine.

A submission review checks the Environmental Statement against the regulations the application is made under, with the consultation responses read alongside the chapters. The officer decides each finding, and requests for further information are tied to the requirements they will answer, so decisions are consistent across a caseload and the basis of each one is on record.

For regulators and reviewers

The card for regulation 14(2)(e) of the Infrastructure Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations 2017, the non-technical summary, marked Partially addressed with the proposed finding Information request, what the evidence review found, the cause, consequence and corrective action, and the first quoted passages with the documents they came from.
A requirement of the Infrastructure Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations 2017 checked against the submitted Environmental Statement: the non-technical summary is referred to but was not submitted, so the evidence review proposes an information request.

Commitments and conditions after consent

What the project has promised and what the consent requires, with an owner for each.

One register of what the project has promised and what the consent requires, with an owner for each, through construction and operation.

Commitments register entries for Hartsmoor Solar Farm. Each shows a reference, the commitment, its owner, how it is secured, the chapter and paragraph it came from and the quoted sentence.
Commitments with their owner, how each is secured, and the chapter, paragraph and sentence it came from.

See EcoSphere in a demo

A walkthrough on a sample review.

We show a submitted assessment reviewed against a standard, from the evidence for each requirement to the Gap Assessment Report.

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