Biodiversity Impact Assessment

Purpose

Help organizations understand where and how their end-to-end value chain impacts biodiversity, prioritize what matters most, and translate findings into decision-grade outputs aligned with leading global frameworks.

Primary users

• Sustainability / ESG teams
• Risk committees and enterprise risk management (ERM)
• Procurement and supply-chain leaders
• Corporate strategy and executive leadership
• Compliance and reporting teams (CSRD/ESRS-facing)

Where it fits (process/stage/trigger)

• ESG materiality and nature/biodiversity assessments (baseline or refresh)
• Pre-CSRD reporting cycles and internal audit readiness
• Risk committee packs and board updates
• M&A / portfolio review, supplier segmentation, or major sourcing changes
• Strategy reviews where nature-related risks/opportunities need to be evidenced

Key capabilities / workflow

• Value chain-wide biodiversity scanning across upstream, operations, and downstream activities
• Identification of direct and indirect impacts, pressures, and dependencies
• Framework classification and mapping to TNFD, SBTN, and CSRD-aligned expectations
• Materiality-driven prioritization to focus on the most decision-relevant hotspots
• Generation of actionable reporting outputs and strategic recommendations for leadership

Inputs

• Value chain description (business units, geographies, key products/services)
• Supplier and sourcing categories (if available)
• Operational footprint and site lists (if available)
• Existing ESG documentation (policies, risk registers, prior assessments)
• Any known biodiversity-related incidents, commitments, or targets

Outputs / Deliverables

• Biodiversity impact heatmaps across the value chain (hotspots by activity/category)
• Regulatory/framework alignment assessment (TNFD, SBTN, CSRD)
• Prioritized list of material impacts with rationale and recommended actions

Ready-to-use narrative and bullet content for:

• ESG disclosures
• Risk committee materials
• Executive strategy reviews

Value

• Converts complex, diffuse nature-related information into prioritized, executive-ready insights
• Accelerates alignment to major global frameworks without starting from scratch
• Improves decision quality by linking biodiversity impacts to materiality and governance needs
• Creates reusable disclosure-ready content to reduce reporting burden