The Biodiversity Consultancy (TBC) Agriculture Supply Chain Services
Where is your company on its nature journey?
Nature is Fundamental to Business
Every business depends on nature, whether through direct operations or global supply chains. As biodiversity declines and ecosystems degrade, the risks to business continuity, resilience, and reputation become increasingly material. Yet alongside these risks, significant opportunities exist. By integrating nature into strategic planning forward-thinking companies mitigate risk and unlock new sources of value through innovation, efficiency, stakeholder trust, and long-term sustainability.
The Biodiversity Consultancy (TBC) is experienced at guiding companies through every stage of their nature journey:
Transition Turning insight into strategy
Integration Embedding nature into business
Activation Understand key risks and opportunities
TBC helps businesses understand their nature-related risks and opportunities, build internal awareness, and establish the governance and data needed to begin their nature journey. Nature risk screening of dependencies, impacts, risks, and opportunities (DIROs) Determine regulatory materiality thresholds Stakeholder engagement Baseline assessments Capacity building Understand key nature risks and opportunities and data dependencies Gain stakeholders’ insights and build internal capacity Confidence to make public statements and enroll in industry nature initiatives
TBC works with companies to develop actionable nature strategies aligned with global frameworks, such as the TNFD and SBTN, that are tailored to their business.
TBC supports the integration of nature into core business functions, reporting, and decision-making to drive long-term value and resilience.
Sector and location-specific materiality assessments Target setting
Nature strategy implementation Year-on-year measurement, monitoring and reporting of nature-related KPIs Screening methodologies for identifying emergent nature-related risks amongst suppliers and new acquisitions Cross-functional integration of nature across business units Implementation plans and operational guidance approved and deployed Nature performance dashboards/ reports in place to inform decision-making Nature considerations integrated into company decision-making (including differentiated risk assumptions) Protocols in place to make corporate nature strategies living documents
Roadmap development Policy and strategy design Forward-looking scenario planning for financial materiality
Detailed mapping of material nature risks and opportunities to inform business decision-making Use of science-based targets and KPIs that are aligned with industry best practice Strategic roadmap to lead nature integration Enhanced confidence to make public statements/ commitments
The Biodiversity Consultancy brings deep, hands-on experience in shaping globally recognised biodiversity reporting standards; expertise we now apply to help our clients lead with confidence and credibility.
Standards and Metrics
The Biodiversity Consultancy has supported clients across food and beverage, commodities, apparel and textiles, and beauty and personal care, giving us a clear understanding of the nature-related challenges and opportunities unique to these sectors.
Deep Expertise in Nature Impacts Across Agricultural Supply Chains
Case Studies
What?
How?
Client Value?
Nestlé had identified biodiversity loss as a business risk because it can threaten the availability and quality of key ingredients and increase vulnerability to climate change. They wanted to complete the SBTN initial target validation, and to set and disclose ambitious and evidence-based targets for land use, becoming a market-leader in the process.
TBC used several in-house methodologies to assess and prioritise different operations and commodities in the client’s value chain. The results from TBC’s analysis were used to support the client to engage in an SBTN pilot and to set science-based targets, and TBC supported the completion the submissions forms and supplementary data sets as per SBTN requirements.
Client
Provided strategic advisory on nature positive strategy and framework alignment
Activation
Transition
Client
Creating a roadmap for action began with quantifying impacts and risks. Using LCA and in-house land footprint method, TBC quantified a biodiversity & land footprint. Next, TBC assessed biodiversity risks (e.g. presence of threatened species) of sourcing regions. These results were combined with qualitative insights on business priorities to produce a set of recommended actions and then synthesised in the Nature Roadmap.
TBC supported Ferrero to assess their nature-related risks and impacts, including dairy, sugar and cocoa products. TBC collaborated with multiple commodity sourcing specialists to identify sourcing locations with highest biodiversity significance and related risks. Findings were translated into a set of tangible actions and targets.
Nature risk assessment to underpin a Nature Strategy for a multinational FMCG
Activation
Transition
What?
How?
Client Value?
TBC conducted a gap analysis of the client’s existing strategy and developed a new strategy in line with the 5 key drivers of biodiversity loss. Utilising Life Cycle Assessments (LCA) and quantitative research, TBC performed a materiality assessment involving commodity deep dives and identified hotspots across their value chain. TBC also conducted in-depth land use footprinting to inform the materiality assessment. TBC then identified a list of potential targets across our client’s value chain that were aligned with SBTN A3RT, giving the company the freedom to then choose targets through internal workshopping. The client was looking to advance other key topics, including biodiversity, to make a positive difference and to become a recognised leader in the space. TBC has been working with the client since 2018. TBC conducted land occupancy footprint assessment of the entire global supply chain and provided recommendations for the formulation of biodiversity-specific goals. TBC also provide regular advice, including a set of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for their biodiversity commitments, and biodiversity management guidance for their operating sites.
The multinational fashion group has now effectively developed its internal capabilities and established science-based targets. Additionally, it has made a public commitment to support projects aimed at protecting, restoring, regenerating, or enhancing biodiversity across 5 million hectares by 2030.
Client
Multinational fashion group
Biodiversity strategy implementation plan
Activation
Transition
By streamlining the goals with science-based thinking on global biodiversity ambition, TBC were able to provide goals that would put the client ahead of its peers. Additionally, a tangible land occupancy ‘footprint’ value enabled the client to affect change across their supply chain & convince management to endorse investments.
Client
Provision of strategic recommendations for global post-2020 biodiversity goals
Activation
Transition
Client
TBC developed a series of guidance documents for the World Business Council for Sustainable Development identifying metrics to measure positive impacts of regenerative agriculture in delivering improvements to water, biodiversity, and soil health. This involved reviewing the scientific literature and several policy frameworks to identify best-practice approaches.
These documents guide corporate users in how to measure the effectiveness of regenerative agricultural practices, while also providing advice about which techniques are evidence-backed, and which are not. TBC provided reliable, high-quality indicators to effectively measure impact with minimal tradeoffs, ensuring alignment with existing frameworks to reduce reporting burdens and support broader sustainability goals.
Regenerative Agriculture Metrics for the World Business Council for Sustainable Development
Transition
Client
TBC undertook an assessment of the company's global biodiversity impacts and following this, corporate biodiversity targets were developed. A practical framework was developed for on-farm implementation of these targets, as well as for monitoring of the biodiversity outcomes. TBC is also developing an operating standard to support roll out of on-farm biodiversity protocols.
The client developed a new corporate position on nature, further clarifying and expanding their No Deforestation Commitment. At the site-level, the client expanded mitigation efforts at their plantation and supported the national government to meet their conservation targets.
Global forest and biodiversity policy; and national sustainable oil palm production Global agribusiness & commodities trader
Activation
Transition
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