The Biodiversity Consultancy Agriculture Supply Chain
Where business and nature thrive
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, risks extend beyond raw material availability to include supply chain disruptions, increased input costs, regulatory pressures, and operational shutdowns. These challenges can jeopardise business continuity, resilience, and reputation, making nature-related risks a material concern for manufacturers. Yet opportunities exist: by integrating nature into strategic planning, forward-thinking companies can mitigate risk and unlock value through innovation, efficiency, stakeholder trust, and long-term sustainability.
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The Biodiversity Consultancy (TBC) is experienced at guiding companies through every stage of their nature journey:
STAGE
TYPICAL ACTIVITIES
BENEFITS TO THE BUSINESS
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 enrol in industry nature initiatives.
Activation Understand key risks and opportunities
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.
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.
Sector and location-specific materiality assessments. Target setting. Roadmap development. Policy and strategy design. Forward-looking scenario planning for financial materiality.
Transition Turning insight into strategy
TBC supports the integration of nature into core business functions, reporting, and decision-making to drive long-term value and resilience.
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.
Integration Embedding nature into business
Nature considerations integrated into company decision-making (including differentiated risk assumptions). Protocols in place to make corporate nature strategies living documents.
TBC 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 Deep Expertise in Nature Impacts Across Agricultural Supply Chains TBC 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.
"What I appreciated about TBC was you really have a feeling that they're core experts, they really have core expertise on the topic. We're working with people that have a PhD, so to me that means a lot when it comes to reliability and knowing the topic and really knowing what they're talking about." — Anders Saxbol , Senior Sustainability Strategist, Ferrero
CASE STUDIES
What?
How?
Client Value?
Client
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 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 AR³T, giving the company the freedom to then choose targets through internal workshopping.
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.
Provided strategic advisory on nature positive strategy and framework alignment.
Activation
Transition
Client
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.
Multinational fashion group
Biodiversity strategy implementation plan.
Activation
Transition
What?
How?
Client Value?
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. 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. 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. 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.
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
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 agribusiness & commodities trader
Global forest and biodiversity policy; and national sustainable oil palm production.
Activation
Transition
Client
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.
Provision of strategic recommendations for global post-2020 biodiversity goals.
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.
Nature risk assessment to underpin a Nature Strategy for a multinational FMCG.
Activation
Transition
Contact the team For more information about our services
Juliette Pugliesi, Business Director, Nature Services juliette.pugliesi@thebiodiversityconsultancy.com
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