The client, a global food and home health product leader, has an expansive operations portfolio spread across many locations worldwide. With a footprint in many different ecosystems, a strong connection to raw and genetic materials, and a value chain stretching across multiple sectors, the organization needed a cohesive understanding of their current dependencies and impacts on nature to draft effective sustainability strategies and consider science-based nature-positive targets for biodiversity and climate action.  

Aware that most of their biodiversity impacts were likely to come from sourcing, the company chose to start with operations to identify which of their many subsectors was most at risk. They also wanted a thorough assessment of the ways in which their manufacturing facilities impact and depend on nature, delivered in a manner that aligned with the Taskforce on Nature-Related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) framework. 

For this assessment, they turned to us, leading providers of biodiversity and nature assessments that enable organizations to conserve, enhance and protect ecosystems worldwide. Our team performed a comprehensive nature-related risk and opportunity assessment upon which the organization can build their future nature- and biodiversity-related strategies.

Practical and insightful, the results gave the organization a thorough understanding of the corporate nature action landscape through a science-based lens that provides them with robust information. Our findings gave the client the critical evidence they required to improve their nature and biodiversity governance, risk management, strategy, target setting, and disclosure.

Our tailored assessment identified the organization’s global risks and opportunities while examining local manufacturing impacts. This dual focus considered the company’s impacts on its operational communities as well as stakeholders across the worldwide value chain. Equally important, the assessment provided them with a benchmark, measuring their level of biodiversity efforts in comparison to 5 peers.

Today, the company has greater transparency into their current biodiversity ambitions and a unity of purpose shared across the global organization. Going forward, they understand the risks and opportunities to be included in their Board of Director discussions, their public disclosures, and the development of their corporate sustainability and environmental strategies. 

The results of the SBTN feasibility analysis put the organization ahead of the curve on nature-related target setting, disclosure, and regulatory compliance. Such stakeholder consensus makes the client future-ready, poised to decrease their risks and maximize their ESG opportunities.