Biodiversity & nature impact
Biodiversity and nature impact
Biodiversity loss is no longer just an environmental issue; it’s a material business risk. With six out of nine planetary boundaries already breached and ecosystems under extreme pressure, the consequences for companies are real: disrupted supply chains, higher operating costs, increased regulatory scrutiny, and declining asset values. Over half of global GDP depends on healthy ecosystems – yet most companies still lack visibility into how their operations impact or depend on nature.
We help businesses assess and act on their biodiversity footprint and dependencies
We do this while aligning with leading frameworks while unlocking tangible business benefits. This includes building more resilient value chains, reducing operational risks, and supporting CSRD-aligned reporting on material environmental topics.
Impact assessment
We conduct value chain assessments to identify where operations are putting pressure on nature. Using frameworks such as Science Based Targets for Nature (SBTN) and Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD), we map critical impact hotspots and quantify pressures using advanced Life Cycle Impact Assessment (LCIA) methods. This creates a clear baseline and a foundation for setting targets, prioritising action, and strengthening nature-related decision-making across the organisation.
Dependency assessment
We evaluate how business operations depend on critical ecosystem services, such as water availability, pollination, or soil health, and what that means for production and supply chain risk. Our work goes beyond identifying risks: we explore how rethinking sourcing, production models, or supply structures can both mitigate vulnerabilities and create new opportunities for growth and innovation, such as new products, services and business models to unlock new markets.
Nature biodiversity strategy
We translate impact and dependency insights into a targeted biodiversity strategy – with measurable ambitions, clear KPIs, and embedded governance. We align these efforts with existing sustainability strategies (such as climate targets), identifying synergies and ensuring a cohesive approach. The result is an integrated strategy that drives nature-positive action while creating long-term business value.
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“We turn nature and biodiversity from a blind spot into a strategic priority, helping companies understand their impacts and dependencies, mitigate risk, and unlock long-term value by aligning business with the planet’s boundaries.”
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Summa Equity
Establishing the foundation for Biodiversity & Nature work across investment portfolio for impact fund
Summa Equity is a thematic investment firm created to solve global challenges and has to date contributed to this through three funds and 33 investments. The investment focus spans four investment themes: Circularity, Sustainable Food, Energy Transition and Tech-Enabled Resilience. As a frontrunner in impact investing within Private Equity, Summa Equity has early on recognised the need to accelerate efforts within nature and biodiversity and engaged The Footprint Firm to conduct an impact assessment across its investments.
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The project
Summa Equity sought to conduct a comprehensive nature & biodiversity impact assessment across its portfolio companies as a key step towards developing a strategic and effective response to the global environmental crisis and enable structured work with these topics from both a risk and a value-creation perspective.
Our approach
The Footprint Firm assisted Summa Equity in a two-phased approach:
- A qualitative impact assessment across the value chains of all portfolio companies applying established tools and frameworks from the Science Based Targets Network
- A quantitative impact analysis focused on energy use in the portfolio companies based on Life Cycle Assessment (“LCAs”) in line with the European Commission’s Environmental Footprint (“EF”) method
The impact
The assessments gave Summa Equity a clear and data-backed view of where nature and biodiversity impacts were most concentrated, both across the full portfolio and within individual companies and their value chains. These insights now serve as a strong foundation for prioritising targeted action and delivering measurable reductions in nature and biodiversity-related impacts.