What You Send
Submit the decision under review, proposed next step, current project materials, and constraints or uncertainties that still matter to the commitment.
What You Receive
You receive an independent governance determination tied to that threshold. Depending on the stage of the matter, this may take the form of a Decision Exposure Review, a Pre-Commitment Admissibility Screen, or a Commitment Integrity Determination.
Each engagement resolves to a practical outcome that maps to proceed, defer, or refuse.
Eligibility to Submit
This page is for the people responsible for authorizing irreversible commitment under unresolved uncertainty:
- investment committees
- project sponsors
- boards
- development leads
- capital allocators
- institutional decision authorities
If you are approaching a step that may become difficult to reverse once authorized, this is the point of entry.
Conditions of Entry
Submit a decision when all of the following are true:
1. A real decision exists: the organization is approaching an actual commitment threshold.
2. Irreversible exposure may begin to form: the next step could harden capital, infrastructure, access, sequencing, authority, or counterpart expectations in ways that would become difficult to unwind.
3. Uncertainty remains material: the unresolved uncertainty still matters to whether the commitment should be permitted at all.
4. Deferral or refusal are still possible: the decision has not yet hardened to the point that governance can no longer operate.
This is not early ideation and it is not post-commitment oversight. It is the interval in which a real decision exists, but refusal still remains institutionally possible.
It is this interval that Sustainable Exploration governs: after a real decision has formed, before refusal loses credibility.
A delayed submission can allow capital, sequence, and internal alignment to harden beyond the point where refusal remains fully credible.
Recognizable Thresholds
Organizations typically engage Sustainable Exploration before decisions such as:
- interconnection queue entry
- site control or land acquisition
- integrated site and grid commitment
- staged capital release
- drilling, excavation, or injection authorization
- offshore corridor or cable commitment
- advancement from exploration into committed development
What Governance Review Assesses First
Submissions are reviewed to determine whether the matter falls within Sustainable Exploration’s jurisdiction. This means confirming that a live decision threshold is present, unresolved uncertainty remains structurally relevant, refusal or deferral are still institutionally available, and the matter involves a genuine irreversible commitment question rather than execution support or general advisory work.
If conditions are met, the matter proceeds into a Decision Exposure Review, a Pre-Commitment Admissibility Screen, or a Commitment Integrity Determination.
If conditions are not met, engagement is refused.
What Submissions Must Establish
Submissions should establish:
- the decision under consideration
- what would become difficult to unwind if it proceeds
- what uncertainty remains unresolved
- who currently holds decision authority
- whether deferral or refusal are acceptable outcomes