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Understand your dependencies and impacts on nature to identify risks, spot opportunities, and build a clearer business case.
Your business depends on nature and can also affect it. Changes in ecosystems, regulations, and customer expectations can turn these connections into business risks and opportunities.
Illustrative examples. Figures are hypothetical, and benefits depend on your circumstances.
01Protect capitalWhere could costs or disruption arise?
02Find opportunitiesWhere could your business gain?
03Build your caseWhat can the evidence support?
Water scarcity, soil degradation, and pollinator decline can disrupt supply and increase costs.
Mapping your dependencies on water supply, soil health, pollination, and other ecosystem services helps you identify where your business relies on nature. Combine this with local environmental conditions and information about your operations and suppliers to assess potential disruption and additional costs.
Nature reporting, deforestation regulations, and permit conditions can affect costs and market access.
Reliable biodiversity and sourcing information can support reporting, customer requests, and due diligence. The Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) provides voluntary disclosure recommendations and assessment guidance. Where relevant, the information gathered can also support biodiversity-related reporting under the European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS) and due diligence under the EU Deforestation Regulation.
Ecosystem degradation, water constraints, or changes in land-use and conservation requirements can affect how assets are used and what they are worth.
Nature-related exposure may influence lenders’ and investors’ assessments of your business.
Evidence on nature dependencies, impacts, and management responses helps you explain your exposure to lenders and investors. It also provides a basis for discussing how water stewardship and ecosystem protection support your investment plans.
Explore water reuse, circular resource use, and farming practices that support healthier soils.
Assessing water and material use can reveal waste and opportunities for reuse. In agricultural supply chains, soil-health and moisture-retention practices can help identify ways to reduce input costs and improve production stability.
Use traceability and verified nature performance to strengthen your response to customer requirements.
Information on sourcing locations, biodiversity impacts, and restoration outcomes helps you demonstrate how your offer meets customer priorities. It can support bids where traceability, deforestation-free sourcing, or improved nature performance matter.
Explore responsibly sourced products, verified restoration outcomes, and ecosystem-service opportunities.
Explore nature-related financing, restoration grants, and payments for ecosystem services.
Nature measurements help establish a baseline and assess what an investment could achieve. They can support proposals for restoration grants, payments for ecosystem services, or financing linked to measurable nature outcomes. Biodiversity credits offer a potential financing route for additional, measured, and verified biodiversity outcomes. Assess the project’s eligibility, community participation, benefit-sharing arrangements, and buyer interest.
Show the evidence, the risk you could reduce, and the opportunity you could pursue.
THE DATAA sourcing assessment identifies suppliers in a watershed facing high water stress.
THE RISK REDUCED Work with suppliers on soil and water management to help reduce vulnerability to water-related disruption.
THE OPPORTUNITYReduce supply disruption costs and protect revenue through more reliable access to raw materials.
THE BUSINESS CASEUse evidence of improved sourcing practices to strengthen a bid for a $10 million supply contract.
Illustrative example. Use evidence of improved water resilience and supply reliability to build a strong business case for protecting revenue and reducing disruption costs.
THE DATAA project covers 2,000 hectares under restoration, with monitoring of ecosystem condition and biodiversity recovery.
THE RISK REDUCED Support delivery of restoration commitments and reduce exposure to related compliance and stakeholder concerns.
THE OPPORTUNITYAttract funding for measurable biodiversity improvements, including through eligible biodiversity-credit schemes.
THE BUSINESS CASEGenerate revenue from verified biodiversity gains to help fund restoration and its long-term maintenance.
Illustrative project. Use measured and verified biodiversity improvements to attract buyers and generate revenue that helps fund restoration and long-term maintenance.
1. Choose one nature dependency or impact linked to a specific operation or supplier.
2. Examine how your dependencies and impacts on nature could lead to operational disruptions, higher costs, or lost revenue.
3. Identify a response and the potential benefits for your business and nature.
4. Use the evidence to build a business case for reducing costs, protecting revenue, or creating new income.
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