The EBS Screen is a composite repository holding a diverse range of existing baseline environmental, biodiversity, and social data of India, based on authenticated and downscaled data from global datasets, government sources and other available public databases.
Key Features:
- Cloud based solution, with secure online access – no additional plug-ins required
- Geospatially enabled and intuitive interface to explore EBS sensitivities
- Functionality to efficiently stack up, query, and consolidate information in the form of a EBS Risk Screening Report in just 2 minutes.
With EBS Screen
- Enable informed planning and early avoidance by identifying environmental and social sensitivities at the outset, allowing developers to apply the mitigation hierarchy correctly and prioritize avoidance through site selection, layout optimization, and design choices.
- Reduce downstream costs and redesign risks by shifting risk management upstream, minimizing reliance on late-stage mitigation measures, supplementary studies, and costly project redesigns.
- Support faster, more predictable approvals by proactively and proportionately addressing environmental and social risks from the earliest stages of development, improving regulatory and lender confidence.
Without EBS Screen
- Slower and resource-intensive screening, relying on manual dataset collation, consultant-led reviews, and spreadsheet-based analysis, typically requiring 2 to 6 weeks per site and the involvement of multiple specialists.
- Higher manpower and lower consistency, with two to three times more human effort, repeated iterations to assemble baselines and check regulatory triggers, and variable outputs across projects.
- Weaker early avoidance decisions, as risk identification depends heavily on individual experience and interpretation rather than standardised, evidence-based screening at the planning stage.
EBS Screen constricts this effort into a repeatable, digital workflow. What typically takes weeks of manual effort can be completed within minutes, requiring significantly lower specialist input, while ensuring consistent, defensible outputs across sites and portfolios. This allows developers to screen more locations, compare alternatives quickly, and apply avoidance strategies early, without escalating costs or internal workload.
EBS Screen is India’s only platform that helps in developing an accurate, comprehensive Environmental, Biodiversity and Social Screening Report for a location, anywhere in the country, in just 2 minutes!