Understanding and addressing pressures on biodiversity is the foundation of any robust hotspot screening and biodiversity footprint assessment. The key pressures — land use change (e.g., deforestation, habitat conversion), direct exploitation of resources (overfishing, overharvesting, water abstraction), pollution (nutrient loading, chemical discharge, plastic waste), climate change, and the spread of invasive alien species — are widely recognized as the primary drivers of biodiversity loss. Frameworks such as the Science Based Targets for Nature (SBTN) and the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) explicitly integrate these categories of pressures, ensuring consistency between measurement, target-setting, and disclosure. By mapping corporate activities against these pressures, organizations can identify biodiversity impact hotspots, prioritize actions, and build resilience into both operations and value chains.

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Depending on client needs, our assessments range from hotspot screening using tools such as ENCORE, the Biodiversity Risk Filter (BRF), or the Integrated Biodiversity Assessment Tool (IBAT), to more detailed evaluations of biodiversity impacts with tools like the Corporate Biodiversity Footprint (CBF) Detailed or the Global Biodiversity Score (GBS). This tiered approach enables companies to first identify pressure hotspots, and then, where relevant, move toward a deeper quantification of their biodiversity footprint.

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Our approach is aligned with measurement best practices and seeks to measure changes in the state of biodiversity, pressures, and responses from companies (practices such as closed-loop water systems). Actions are often easier to link to pressures such as deforestation (land use change), nitrogen and phosphorous emissions or plastic waste (pollution), presence of invasive alien species, water use (direct exploitation). while outcomes near to be verified at the biodiversity state level.