Biodiversity Navigator

Why is it important?

Measuring your biodiversity footprint is crucial because it helps identify and prioritise across the interfaces with nature of your activities and investments. By uncovering and reducing this footprint, you can contribute to conservation efforts, support sustainable practices, and help maintain the ecological balance crucial for the planet’s health and future.

It is also pivotal for your business to integrate nature-related issues in investment, risk management and compliance processes, towards a more virtuous societal model driven by rising standards such as CSRD, SFDR or TNFD. Capital allocation processes integrate more and more non-financial information, making every layer of the financial system evolve and change.

“Impact Institute was a valuable partner for EDC as we embarked on the important step of seeking to understand the nature-related risks and impacts of our financial activities. Impact Institute’s team was highly adaptable to organization’s needs and created a fit-for-purpose insights platform that exceeded our expectations and supported meaningful conversations throughout EDC”.

LORRAINE AUDSLEY – Chief Risk and Sustainability Officer at Export Development Canada

Understand where to invest, divest and engage

Kick-off your biodiversity journey and gain immediate quantitative insights into impacts on biodiversity loss arising from your business operations or investment portfolio. Get ready to meet industry standards and regulatory requirements such as TNFD, FfB, PBAF with the Biodiversity Navigator. Progressively build your analysis to understand your risks in relation to biodiversity, and ultimately identify where to divest, where to invest, and on what to engage.

Know that you’re focusing on the right thing

Access the right data points and visualisations, leverage on our 10+ years of experience in measuring, reporting and communicating around impacts on biodiversity and beyond… all in one tool.

Distinguishing features for the Biodiversity Navigator

🐝 5 main drivers of biodiversity loss

We currently capture the effects of 5 drivers of biodiversity loss, as well as dependencies on 21 ecosystems in line with ENCORE analyses. We also constantly explore the limits of datasets available.

💶 Monetised impacts

Monetised impacts help to assess the impact on biodiversity loss, facilitating the integration into corporate and investment KPIs.

⿰ Value chains look-through

We measure and deliver not only on the effects linked to direct economic activity, but also the effects of all the supply chains and consumer chains linked to it.

💡 Standard and tailored attribution methodologies

We align with PCAF/PBAF standard attribution approaches, or can also apply IWAF methods, where we can identify value chain responsibility without double counting.

➰ Aligned with frameworks

Aligned with existing frameworks, including the TNFD LEAP approach, the Finance for Biodiversity Pledge, and the PBAF Standard.

🚜 Filter on 500+ sectors

Get a detailed view at sector level, in line with standard classifications (e.g. NACE, ISIC, GTAP). Identify and address sector-specific issues all at once.

🌏 Worldwide coverage

We cover the whole world with at least country-level data, and combine our location-specific data (e.g. on land use) with yours to make our analyses even more specific to your use cases

📈 Easy drill-down dashboard

An interactive way to view the results and make decisions based on your portfolio’s biodiversity impact and dependencies.

Why Impact Institute

We’re on a mission to help organisations to make decisions based on both finances and with impact in mind. Impact Institute is part of the TNFD Forum and TNFD Data Catalyst Working Group. Also, our GID Biodiversity has been included in the 2nd edition of the Finance For Biodiversity Guide on Biodiversity Measurement Approaches.

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