Nature Assessment

Location-Based Biodiversity Risk Assessment determines the likely state of nature in a specific area. This helps to prioritise which locations within your operations and supply chain are most significant in terms of biodiversity and may pose higher risks if these areas are impacted by business activities. 

Whether reviewing existing results or using proprietary methods, we leverage our biodiversity expertise to understand your specific business challenges and help you efficiently translate results into language that resonates for your key stakeholders. We work with you and your available data to provide insights that can be used for multiple reporting needs (including SBTN, TNFD, CSRD and GRI), keeping you ahead of competitors and ensuring assurance-ready results with full transparency. 

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Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) quantitatively estimates pressures—including land use, climate change, pollution and water use — from the activities in your value chain on nature, and the potential biodiversity loss. Drawing on years of experience, we interpret these results into pragmatic advice, specific to your business. Our experts can work with any existing LCA models to align biodiversity assessments with previous environmental analyses. 

This analysis can cover your entire value chain, from raw material sourcing to a product’s end-of-life, revealing both direct and indirect impacts on biodiversity. Impacts can be measured and compared across environmental pressures, commodities, and business activities. 

LCA results can be complex, difficult to interpret, and if used inappropriately could represent risks to your businesses. We’ll ensure that you can navigate this complexity, with robust, decision-grade guidance to inform your next steps. 

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Read our latest research partnership with University of Oxford on LCA.

Land use change is the leading cause of global biodiversity loss (IPBES) and can also act as a proxy for other impact drivers. Better land use estimates, when compared with traditional LCA methods, can be key for understanding value chain impacts. A biodiversity land use footprint estimates the area of land necessary for your operations and the potential associated impacts on biodiversity. This is combined with a location-based risk assessment to evaluate each location’s significance from a biodiversity conservation perspective. 

This approach is particularly useful if you have precise sourcing information or an agri-based value chain, either within your operations or supply chain. As pioneers in biodiversity data and metrics, we can work with a variety of datasets and levels of granularity to help you prioritise effectively and accurately, saving time and focussing on the most relevant actions for your business.

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