Brett Spicer

Executive summary

Brett is a Partner in BDO’s Sustainability team in Brisbane. He has over 20 years’ experience in carbon and natural capital management, commercial due diligence, and strategic and operational planning, with proven success across a range of industry sectors.

Brett brings strategic, tactical, and analytical insights to deliver innovative solutions that add value for his clients.

His diverse knowledge, experience, and demonstrated success in managing complex commercial relationships, paired with his strong business acumen, maximise his ability to consistently achieve critical business outcomes.

Expertise

• Climate-related financial risk disclosures
• Nature-related financial risk disclosures
• Enterprise and value chain decarbonisation strategies
• Sustainability assurance in mergers and acquisitions and project development activity
• ESG framework development, disclosure, and performance evaluation

Experience

• Advising multiple government agencies and listed and private companies on:
  • Enterprise decarbonisation strategies
  • Renewable energy infrastructure capital allocation
  • Abatement option identification
  • Business case development to inform investment decisions
  • Transitioning multi-site portfolios to the low carbon economy while achieving commercial and sustainability objectives.
• Advising multi-site REITs, complex industrials, mining, agricultural and not-for-profit sector entities on transition to mandatory climate-related reporting, and integrating climate-related risk management into enterprise frameworks
• Led multidisciplinary teams to develop net-zero strategies for a major airport, an ASX-listed healthcare company, ASX-listed critical minerals miner, and a private agriculture company.

Qualifications and affiliations

• Bachelor of Commerce
• Graduate Certificate in Coastal Zone Management
• Executive and Management Training

Professional engagements and activities

• BDO Global Climate Services Committee
• BDO National Sustainability Steering Committee
• Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures Forum
• Sustainability Advisory Committee Member, Business South Bank
• Non-Executive Director, Eco-Markets Australia