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.
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 ConsultingKey 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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