Climate
Specialist, multidisciplinary consultancy for projects supporting the green transition.
The green transition demands expertise
We specialise in advising on projects related to the green transition. Our expertise ranges from assessing climate impacts and identifying suitable sites for renewable energy facilities to multifunctional land consolidation and taking carbon-rich lowland soils out of agricultural production. We identify the potential impacts of new facilities on nature and the environment, and provide surveying, setting-out and land rights acquisition services for both the facilities themselves and the surrounding infrastructure. In short, we provide advice before, during and after each project.
Our experience has shown that our role as advisers enables us to influence processes and projects by applying the knowledge we gain through our involvement in a wide variety of projects. Our advisers work across departments and disciplines, providing advice both internally and externally.
It may sound obvious, but we can only overcome the challenges facing the world if we work together.
Examples of LE34’s climate-related services and consultancy:
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Preliminary studies
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Landowner engagement using our Common Ground method
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Land consolidation
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Peatland restoration
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Afforestation
Meeting the Green Tripartite Agreement’s target of establishing a total of 250,000 hectares of new forest by 2045 will require dedicated collaboration.
LE34 helps deliver afforestation projects in partnership with municipalities, utility companies, the Danish Nature Agency and landowners. We manage land and rights acquisition, conduct negotiations with landowners and carry out land consolidation. We also safeguard the future of the new forests by registering covenants in the Land Register to ensure that they are retained.
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Cloudburst tunnels
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Integrated water management plans
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Coastal protection
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Sewer separation
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Data for hydraulic modelling
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Stormwater parks and sustainable drainage systems (SuDS)
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Solar farms
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Wind turbines – onshore and offshore
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BESS: batteries
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Power2X plants
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BNBO – wellhead protection areas
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Afforestation
Forests provide an effective means of protecting the groundwater from which our drinking water is sourced. This is why the Green Tripartite Agreement also sets targets for afforestation.
LE34 helps deliver afforestation projects in partnership with municipalities, utility companies, the Danish Nature Agency and landowners. We manage land and rights acquisition, conduct negotiations with landowners and carry out land consolidation. We also safeguard the long-term future of the new forests by registering covenants in the Land Register to ensure that the land remains forested.
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CO2 storage onshore and offshore
The Danish Government has allocated funding for the development of carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology. In simple terms, CCS involves capturing CO2 from industrial facilities before it is released into the atmosphere and injecting it into geological formations underground or beneath the seabed.
As advisers, we can help establish both the legal and technical foundations for these projects, which are currently at the preliminary investigation stage. At this stage, we provide landowner engagement, negotiate and enter into voluntary agreements, and undertake surveying and reviews of registered easements and covenants.
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Peatland restoration
The purpose of peatland restoration is to curb CO2 emissions from carbon-rich soils. When land is taken out of agricultural production and rewetted for all or part of the year, the reduced availability of oxygen slows the decomposition of organic matter in the soil, thereby reducing CO2 emissions.
LE34 provides consultancy services covering both technical/biological and property-related feasibility studies.
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Construction – surveys for BR18 climate compliance
Area schedules for the new climate requirements in the Building Regulations: Under the revised Building Regulations, you must submit an area schedule for calculating the building’s climate impact.
At LE34, we understand the regulatory requirements and provide the information you need. Everything is quality-assured by a chartered land surveyor and an architectural technologist.
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Electricity grid expansion
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Environmental assessment of plans and programmes
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Environmental impact assessment of projects
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Project visualisation for environmental assessment
The urgency driving change in our consultancy
New assignments, new projects and new ways of working are all professionally stimulating. However, the reasons our clients’ projects and consultancy needs are changing are sobering.
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) describes the situation as follows: “The world is in a climate emergency. Unless greenhouse gas emissions fall dramatically, warming could pass 2.9°C this century.”
Changes in the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere are measured in parts per million (ppm). According to GEUS, atmospheric CO2 concentrations were last as high as they are today millions of years ago.
Conference on the Green Tripartite Agreement – Land-use Transition U...
Who is successfully driving progress – and how? Meet the organisations already turning ambitions into tangible results. HortenDahl and LE34 bring together be...
Landowner engagement must not become an afterthought in the Green Tr...
If we are to turn political plans into tangible changes to the landscape, we must view landowners not as an obstacle but as essential to the success of the G...
We are launching a new method amid a historic transformation of Denm...
Common Ground is LE34’s method for landowner engagement, combining research, anthropological insights and many years of experience. We developed it because t...
Multifunctional land use in Solbjerg
Martin Korgaard represented LE34 at a press conference with Denmark’s Minister for the Environment, Magnus Heunicke, in Solbjerg Forest in February. The focu...
THE WATER’S WAYS: Kolindsund – A Landscape Back to the Future
The Green Tripartite Agreement raises major and complex questions for local communities and politicians alike. Can we open the sluice gates to greater volume...
Landowner negotiations for Energinet’s West Coast Connection
Land and rights acquisition through negotiations with landowners has helped deliver an important milestone for Denmark’s electricity infrastructure: Energine...
Cloudburst tunnels in Svanemøllen and Valby
How do you secure permission to construct Denmark’s largest cloudburst tunnel, stretching 10 km through the heart of a densely populated capital?That is esse...
Multifunctional land consolidation for the Fehmarn Belt Link
You must plant a tree… multifunctional land use has been incorporated into the development of the Fehmarn Belt Link. An infrastructure project that affects e...
72 %
of our fleet is electric
In 2021, LE34’s first electric vehicles took to the roads. Before then, we had invested in charging infrastructure at our four largest offices. Today, 77% of our offices in Denmark have charging points.
When charged with renewable electricity – as they are at our charging points – our electric vehicles account for 0 g of CO2 emissions per kilometre driven. This meant that by 2023, in just three years, we had reduced our annual CO2 emissions by 203 tonnes.
100 %
renewable energy
With more electric vehicles in daily use, more virtual meetings and greater use of digital communications and servers, switching to renewable electricity has been an important initiative.
On the 1st of January 2023, we switched to electricity supplied by NRGi. This means that 100% of the electricity we purchase directly comes from renewable sources, accounting for 90% of our total electricity consumption.
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sustainability reporting
From 2026, new sustainability reporting requirements will apply to companies of our size. The new ESG legislation forms part of the European Commission’s Action Plan on Financing Sustainable Growth, which is intended to help the EU become the first continent to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement.
We have chosen to view the directive as an opportunity to take responsibility now. That is why, in 2022, we began LE34’s sustainability transition across environmental, social and governance matters, enabling us to start reporting as early as 2023.