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What We Do

Nature is rising rapidly up the business, policy and regulatory agendas. Leading businesses and financial institutions are making nature-related commitments and piloting new measurement approaches, guided by an emerging plethora of standards, frameworks, and regulatory requirements. The complexity of nature and the relative immaturity of these frameworks create challenges for business.

We bring global expertise in biodiversity and risk management to help business leaders understand their environmental risks and dependencies and pursue commercially viable nature-related opportunities.

Collaborations

Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD)

We are a member of the TNFD Forum, providing advisory support on the assessment of current standards and metrics, ongoing initiatives and recommendations, and the development of corporate case studies on nature impacts and dependencies.

World Economic Forum

We are working with the World Economic Forum to provide sector-specific nature-positive transition guidance for four sectors: chemicals, construction materials, consumer goods, and meat, poultry and dairy.

African Natural Capital Alliance (ANCA)

We are a knowledge partner to ANCA. Our support ranges from developing thought leadership to organizing and participating in nature events with the private and public sectors.

What We Think

Biodiversity In Business — The Risks And Opportunities

Learn how nature and biodiversity can boost your business. Here our experts discuss navigating the risks and opportunities of nature-positive strategies.

Protecting Africa’s Natural Capital

Navigating nature may be a new challenge for the financial services sector – but finding solutions that help communities is a significant reward.

Nature-Positive Industry Sector Transitions

Understanding sector-specific priority actions that companies should take now to reduce negative impacts on nature and unlock opportunities across value chains.

Why Preserving Nature Is Key To Africa’s Financial Future

The degradation of natural ecosystems poses a risk to Africa’s financial and economic stability. We outline how regulators can act on nature-related risks now.

How Financial Institutions Can Help Restore Nature

As nature loss reaches a tipping point in Australia, we discuss five actions financial institutions can prioritize to help protect and restore nature.

Why We Need To Nurture Natural Capital In The Middle East

The consequences of environmental and nature degradation are severe for the world's economic output. Here’s what can we do to stop them.

Breakthroughs

Promoting Africa’s Voice On Nature

We helped FSD Africa pilot the draft Taskforce on Nature-Related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) framework with African Financial Institutions and test its suitability and applicability in the African context. Our efforts led to the development of best-in-class toolkits and roadmaps for financial institutions to build nature capabilities, as well as the launch of the African Natural Capital Alliance (ANCA).

Assessing Credit Risk Impacts

We helped a UK bank undertake an environmental risk materiality assessment, including identifying key nature-risk drivers for different sectors, identifying transmission channels for credit risk impacts, and undertaking loss sensitivity analysis for plausible worst-case changes in nature-risk drivers.

Refreshing Public Environment Plans

We helped the Ministry of Environment of a G20 country refresh its National Environment Strategy and develop the Deputy Ministry Of Environment’s capabilities towards implementing the strategy and enabling the success of the institutional players in the environment sector.