Major project approval conditions are a compliance mountain.
Transmission and infrastructure projects carry hundreds of SEARs/EIS conditions, each needing evidence, each reportable. Tracking them in spreadsheets across a multi-year build with rotating contractors is where findings are born.
Greenwashing scrutiny means evidence, not dashboards.
Heads of sustainability are rightly sceptical of platforms that display numbers without validating them. Boards and regulators now ask how you know the evidence behind a claim is current, correct and complete.
Contractor data is the weakest link.
Fuel, materials and emissions data from delivery contractors arrives late, inconsistent, or not at all, and it has to roll up from project level to organisational NGER and AASB S2 reporting without breaking.
Scope 3 hides in the capital program.
For utilities in a near-zero grid, the footprint isn't energy: one water utility's indicative Scope 3 came out around 95,000 tCO₂e a year with roughly 70% sitting in capital works. Procurement and finance hold the data, sustainability holds the obligation.
GOC accountability without GOC resources.
Government-owned corporations face NGER, AASB S2, ministerial reporting and public scrutiny simultaneously, usually with a sustainability team you can count on one hand.