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Asset-Level Biodiversity Risk Assessment

As global sustainability regulations tighten, financial institutions and corporations must assess and mitigate biodiversity risks across their assets. Infrastructure developments, corporate operations, and investment portfolios all interact with the natural world—sometimes in ways that pose significant environmental risks. Without precise, location-specific data, businesses may unknowingly operate in or invest in areas with high biodiversity sensitivity, leading to regulatory, financial, and reputational consequences.

NatureAlpha provides a powerful solution, using advanced geospatial analytics to assess whether asset infrastructure overlaps with sensitive or protected areas. This enables investors and businesses to identify and mitigate potential environmental risks before they become liabilities.

Why Asset-Level Risk Assessment Matters

Regulatory Compliance – Align with Taskforce on Nature-Related FinancialDisclosures (TNFD) and Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD)standards by accurately assessing nature-related risks.

Risk Mitigation – Avoid financial losses, legal challenges, and reputationaldamage by proactively identifying conflicts with protected ecosystems.

Better Investment & Business Decisions – Assess and adapt development plans, supply chains, and investment strategies with location-specific biodiversity intelligence.

How NatureAlpha Helps You Manage Nature And Biodiversity Risk

Geospatial Risk Mapping – Analyze 8.5 million asset locations using 28biodiversity and ecosystem layers to determine exposure to sensitive areas.

Proactive Impact Mitigation – Identify high-risk assets and implementstrategies to reduce environmental impact while maintaining businessperformance.

Automated, AI-Powered Insights – Eliminate manual guesswork withscience-backed, real-time biodiversity risk data at the asset, company, andportfolio levels.

Turn Risk into Opportunity

With NatureAlpha’s Geoverse 2.0, companies and investors can assess, report,and mitigate biodiversity risks with confidence, ensuring their assets arealigned with sustainability goals.

Start your asset-level biodiversity risk assessment with NatureAlpha today.

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NatureAlpha Team
April 11, 2025

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Transitional: Litigation and liability risk

As environmental regulations tighten and public scrutiny intensifies, litigation and liability risk is becoming a critical transitional issue for businesses and financial institutions.

Transitional: Supply chains, systems & processes

As the global economy undergoes a transition toward sustainability, companies face increasing pressure to re-evaluate the supply chains, systems, and processes that underpin their operations.

Transitional: Policy change and activism

As awareness of biodiversity loss and environmental degradation rises, policy change and activism are rapidly reshaping the operating environment for businesses and investors.

Transitional: Natural resource availability

As the global economy shifts toward sustainability, natural resource availability is becoming a central transitional risk. Businesses that rely heavily on finite or declining resources are increasingly exposed.

Transitional: Regulatory and compliance changes

As global momentum builds around sustainability and biodiversity protection, regulatory and compliance changes are emerging as a key transitional risk for businesses and financial institutions.

Physical: Pandemics and social impact

The interconnectedness of human health, biodiversity, and business has never been more evident. Pandemics and their cascading social impacts present significant physical risks to businesses.

Physical: Biodiversity & ecosystem loss

As the natural world continues to degrade, biodiversity and ecosystem loss is becoming a major driver of physical risk—undermining the very systems businesses rely on for resources, resilience, and stability.

Physical: Water risk and rising sea levels

As global temperatures rise, physical water risks and sea level rise are emerging as some of the most material threats to infrastructure, economies, and investment portfolios.

Physical: Droughts, deforestation and landslides

As climate change accelerates and ecosystems are degraded, physical risks such as droughts, deforestation, and landslides are becoming more severe and financially consequential.