Nature-related Risks and Opportunities Assessment
Assess exposure to nature-related risks and opportunities
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Uncover how understanding nature interface, regulatory change, and stakeholder expectations can mitigate material risks and create strategic opportunities for your business
Why conduct a nature-related risks and opportunities assessment?
Enable your organization to identify, evaluate, and act on how its operations, value chains, and business model depend on—and affect—nature.
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.
Build resilience & value
Understanding your natural-capital exposure sets up the company to mitigate nature-related risks, seize nature-positive opportunities, innovate supply chains, and strengthen market positioning
Safeguard for the long term
Preserving the natural resources, ecosystems, and biodiversity that underpin your business model—such as water availability, pollination, soil fertility, and clean air—strengthens long-term business continuity and competitiveness
How our process works
Map your organization’s interface with nature (operations, value chains, investments) to understand how your business interacts with nature across geographies
Assess your organization’s dependencies (how your business relies on natural capital) and impacts (how your operations affect ecosystems, species, water, land, and climate)
Identify and prioritize nature-related risks and opportunities (physical, transition, systemic) based on severity, likelihood, and business materiality
Summarize key findings, gap analysis, and priority actions. This is your roadmap for integrating nature into your ESG and risk management systems and the foundation of strategies, metrics, and targets
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 ConsultingUnderstanding the Mission
You will receive a detailed report that maps how your business interfaces with nature, identifies your nature-related dependencies and impacts, prioritizes material nature-related risks and opportunities, outlines a gap analysis of your existing governance/strategy/metrics, and provides a road map with recommended actions tailored to your business.
Climate-related risks and opportunities assessments focus specifically on greenhouse gas emissions and the physical and transition risks and opportunities that may arise for a company given the impacts of climate change. Nature-related risks and opportunities assessments consider nature more broadly (i.e. biodiversity, ecosystem services, water, soil) and the risks and opportunities that may arise for a company given its dependencies and impacts on nature.
We consider three broad categories:
- Physical risks such as loss of ecosystem services (pollination decline, water scarcity, extreme events)
- Transition risks such as regulatory changes, market shifts (e.g., deforestation-free sourcing), reputational or liability risks tied to biodiversity
- Systemic risks like wider ecosystem collapse, supply-chain contagion, and macro-economic impacts triggered by nature loss
We link findings to your risk-management systems and business strategy. Risk-prioritization supports establishing tangible next-steps such as supply-chain sourcing changes, operational KPIs tied to natural capital, scenario-based stress-testing, and disclosure readiness for key stakeholders.
The ideal timing may be when you aim to enhance your ESG efforts and reporting, facing regulatory or investor pressure on nature, exploring supply-chain resilience, or planning to future-proof your business. Key stakeholders to include are board/senior-leadership, risk management, sustainability/ESG, procurement/supply chain, operations/asset management, and finance/investor relations. The assessment helps unify nature-risk across these functions.
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