About EarthPLAN
Our Mission
Our Experience
Our Services
EarthPLAN exists to close the gap between engineering and environmental practice, translating complex, multi-regional climate policy and environmental science into decisions engineers can act on, whether that's through direct advisory work, published reference material, or structured training.
Our Services
Our Experience
Our Services
Our advisory work spans Environmental & Climate Science, Sustainable Finance, and Project Managementl, supporting infrastructure, construction, and heavy industry clients through specialist surveys, permitting, ESG compliance, sustainable finance reporting, and training & facilitation. See our (Environmental Services), (Sustainable Transi
Our advisory work spans Environmental & Climate Science, Sustainable Finance, and Project Managementl, supporting infrastructure, construction, and heavy industry clients through specialist surveys, permitting, ESG compliance, sustainable finance reporting, and training & facilitation. See our (Environmental Services), (Sustainable Transition), and (Training & Facilitation) pages for the full detail.
Our Experience
Our Experience
Our Experience
Over 25 years of industry experience across Mining & Minerals, Heavy Industry, and Agro- and Forestry sectors, with deep insight into ESG compliance, IFC Performance Standards, Equator Principles, and international sustainable finance frameworks. That same expertise now underpins EarthPLAN Press, our publishing imprint, home to EarthPLAN:
Over 25 years of industry experience across Mining & Minerals, Heavy Industry, and Agro- and Forestry sectors, with deep insight into ESG compliance, IFC Performance Standards, Equator Principles, and international sustainable finance frameworks. That same expertise now underpins EarthPLAN Press, our publishing imprint, home to EarthPLAN: The Engineer's Guide to Collaborative Sustainability, and EarthPLAN Learning, our training and cohort programmes for early-career engineers.
Paul S Vermaak ▪ Pr.Sci.Nat.
Paul S Vermaak ▪ Pr.Sci.Nat.
Paul is the author of EarthPLAN: The Engineer's Guide to Collaborative Sustainability and the founder of EarthPLAN's advisory, publishing, and training work.
Paul has a dual engineering and natural science background. His career has spanned 25+ years, working on site, all over Africa and south-east Asia. He’s undertaken both specialist
Paul is the author of EarthPLAN: The Engineer's Guide to Collaborative Sustainability and the founder of EarthPLAN's advisory, publishing, and training work.
Paul has a dual engineering and natural science background. His career has spanned 25+ years, working on site, all over Africa and south-east Asia. He’s undertaken both specialist studies, permitting programmes and audits for various large- and mega-scale projects, working in various sectors, including Mining & Minerals (extractives), Oil & Gas, heavy industry (power, chemicals mostly), forestry and farming. He’s also led teams developing financial standards for Sustainable (green) Financial institutions.
He is currently leaning into sharing that knowledge through learning platforms and publishing, to help bridge the gap between early career engineers and the ever essential environmental specialists they encounter.
For me, it boils down to a simple philosophy: Good engineering, demands that: Sustainability isn’t a constraint, rather that it’s a design opportunity.
From advisory to authorship
Paul S Vermaak ▪ Pr.Sci.Nat.
Paul's consulting background spans Mining & Minerals, Heavy Industry, and Agro- and Forestry, working across ESG compliance, sustainable finance, and environmental science.
That direct project experience, the translation failures between engineering and environmental teams, seen repeatedly across projects, is what EarthPLAN the book, and EarthPLAN the training programme, are built to solve.
EarthPLAN today
EarthPLAN today
We're a full service offering, partnering with some of the best people in the industry.
- Consulting & Advisory: ongoing environmental and sustainability advisory services for infrastructure and heavy industry clients. (All our services)
- EarthPLAN Press: our publishing imprint. (Do you want to find out more about the book)
- EarthPLAN Learning:
We're a full service offering, partnering with some of the best people in the industry.
- Consulting & Advisory: ongoing environmental and sustainability advisory services for infrastructure and heavy industry clients. (All our services)
- EarthPLAN Press: our publishing imprint. (Do you want to find out more about the book)
- EarthPLAN Learning: training and cohort-based programmes for early-career engineers, launching soon. (See upcoming courses)