Nature & Biodiversity Risk

The Nature & Biodiversity Risk dataset assesses nature-related impacts and dependencies across a company’s direct operations that can be applied at the asset, company, and portfolio level. The dataset applies the Nature Risk Profile, a new methodology for analyzing companies' impacts and dependencies on nature, launched by S&P Global Sustainable1 and the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) in January 2023.

The Nature & Biodiversity Risk dataset supports companies, investors, and entities as they seek to understand, manage, and mitigate exposure of corporates and portfolios to nature-related risks and impacts. It enables companies to benchmark against their relevant GICS sector averages and model nature and biodiversity risks for private companies based on their geographic operations and GICS sector classification. The dataset is in line with the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) LEAP approach and can be leveraged by market participants for more transparent alignment with the TNFD recommendations.

This dataset includes:

• 130+ metrics to measure impacts and dependencies on nature & biodiversity
• Ecosystem Footprint metrics to measure impact, and Dependency Scores to measure dependencies across 21 Ecosystem Services
• Impact and dependency metrics for 21,000+ public and private companies
• Leverages database of 2.9 million assets mapped to corporate owners, based on S&P Global and other third-party datasets
• Comprehensive analysis of average nature-related impact and dependency metrics across four GICS levels – Sub-industry, Industry, Industry Group, and Sector – covering 248 countries and territories, 23 regions, and a global level
• Overlap with Key Biodiversity Areas (KBA) and Protected Areas (PA) screening metrics and visualization
• Understand nature risk exposures using maps and results visualizations in desktop-enabled solution