Why would you conduct a Nature-Related Risk Assessment?

Help your organization identify, evaluate and act on how your operations, value chains and financial model depend on — and impact — natural ecosystems and biodiversity.

Stay Compliant

Investors, regulators and financial institutions are demanding greater transparency on nature-related dependencies and impacts. The TNFD framework is rapidly becoming a strategic standard.

Builds Resilience and Value

Organizations that understand their natural-capital exposure can seize nature-positive opportunities, innovate supply-chains, and strengthen market positioning.

Safeguard for the Long-term

Protecting ecosystem services that underpin your business model—such as water availability, pollination, soil fertility, clean air—helps safeguard your long-term continuity and competitiveness.

How our process works

Map your interface with nature (operations, supply chain, value chain, investments, geographies) to pinpoint where nature’s services or assets underpin your business.

Assess dependencies (how your business relies on natural capital) and impacts (how your operations affect ecosystems, species, water, land, climate) in those locations.

Identify and prioritize nature-related risks and opportunities (physical, transition, systemic) based on severity, likelihood and business materiality.

Develop response options, embed nature-risk management into governance and strategy, define metrics and targets (and disclosure readiness if needed).

Deliver a comprehensive summary including key findings, priority actions, gap-analysis, and a roadmap for monitoring and integration into your ESG / risk-management systems.

Client

Understanding your organization’s dependence on nature isn’t just environmental due diligence—it’s strategic foresight. A nature-related risk assessment reveals where ecosystem decline could disrupt operations, supply chains, or value creation, allowing leaders to act before those risks become costly realities.

Annie Roberts

Senior Vice President - Climate Consulting

Key Questions and Considerations

You will receive a detailed report that identifies and maps your nature-interfaces, dependencies and impacts; prioritizes the highest-material nature-related risks and opportunities; outlines a gap-analysis of your existing governance/strategy/metrics; and provides a clear roadmap with recommended actions and metrics tailored to your business.

While climate risk assessments focus on greenhouse-gas emissions, transition scenarios and physical climate impacts, a nature-related risk assessment addresses ecosystem services, biodiversity loss, land-use change, water-and-soil conditions and how they interconnect with your operations and value chain. Opportunity sets and disclosure frameworks (such as TNFD) are also distinct.

We consider three broad categories:

  • Physical nature risks: e.g., loss of ecosystem services (pollination decline, water scarcity, extreme events).
  • Transition risks: regulatory changes, market shifts (e.g., deforestation-free sourcing), reputational or liability risks tied to biodiversity.
  • Systemic risks: wider ecosystem collapse, supply-chain contagion and macro-economic impacts triggered by nature-loss.

We link findings to your specific risk-management architecture and business strategy. From risk-prioritization we generate tangible next-steps: e.g., supply-chain sourcing changes, operational KPIs tied to natural capital, scenario-based stress-testing, disclosure readiness for board and stakeholders. We embed monitoring structures so nature-risk becomes part of ongoing governance.

Ideal when you are: embarking on ESG/ESG-reporting enhancement, facing regulatory or investor pressure on nature/biodiversity, exploring supply-chain resilience, or want to future-proof value chains. Key stakeholders: board/senior-leadership (governance), risk/methodology teams, sustainability/ESG function, procurement/supply-chain leads, operations/asset-management, finance/investor-relations. The assessment helps unify nature-risk across these functions.

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