ERM Colombia LTDA (ERM)

Description:

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ERM established its first office in Mexico City in 1991, working for both local and multinational industries across the region. Now, our office has more than 130 professionals. 

ERM's Mexico team combines the responsiveness and local environmental knowledge of a medium-size firm with the resources of a large worldwide organization. Our Mexico operation has a strong presence and an excellent reputation in both the Mexican and international sustainability consulting community, as well with the stakeholders.

ERM’s Mexican operations include a mix of different disciplines including chemical, mechanical, environmental, and biochemical engineers, biologists, geologists, and lawyers, among others. Our professionals have an average 10 years' experience with some having as much as 32 years, most of whom have postgraduate studies. We provide a wide range of strategic and conventional services. We are unique in our capacity to development of sustainability strategies, with the board members and senior management teams, and to implement those strategies on the day-to-day operations at the facilities/sites. 

Our strategic services include, materiality assessment, digital transformation, reporting and disclosures, life cycle assessment, resources footprint reduction (water, energy, waste, emissions), among many other. Our conventional services include site selection, environmental and social impact assessment, stakeholder engagement, permitting, environmental site assessment, investigation and remediations. We also have wide experience supporting our client on the sustainable closure of their facilities. 

We help companies to transform their safety culture to improve their performance. The aim of our services it to help our client to obtain more from their current investment in health and safety. 

Additionally, we support the financial sector in the development of their risk management systems and assessing the project’s environmental and social risk helping them on their investment decision. We also support companies to secure financial resources by aligning their projects to the equator principles, IFC performance standard and other international standards.   

We have established good working relationships with Mexico's federal and state environmental regulatory agencies and, because of our credibility and the quality of our work, we have been successful at winning agency concurrence for our approaches to solving environmental problems within the constraints of the regulations and economics.