Biodiversity risks and regulations
Closing in on
Is your business ready to navigate the complexity of ecosystems in a changing regulatory landscape?
Develop a biodiversity strategy that tackles complexity and builds resilience
Biodiversity is the variety of all life and the intricate interactions between organisms and their environment. As society and as companies, we all depend on the health of our ecosystems and must act to protect and restore them. But where do you strategically begin working with biodiversity?
By closing in on the complexity of biodiversity itself and related regulatory frameworks, organisations can focus their efforts, set targets and act. Similarly, by identifying biodiversity-related risks and taking early action, you can build resilience and turn business risks into innovation-driven opportunities.
With our global biodiversity expertise and proven track record, we help you develop a biodiversity strategy, gain science-based insights and inspiration to progress, and meet your corporate sustainability goals.
Let’s close the gap on biodiversity.
$10.1 trillion of annual business opportunities
and 395 million jobs could be generated by 2030 from nature-positive transitions across three socioeconomic systems:
- Food, land, and ocean use
- Infrastructure and the built environment
- Energy and extractives
(World Economic Forum, 2024)
Ready to navigate biodiversity complexity?
Every business’s biodiversity journey is unique. What actions should you take to cut through complexity?
Principal Ecologist, Lis Nelis, shares her insights and recommendations.
Watch the video to learn more
Three steps in the transition to a nature positive future
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Make the business case
Determine which issues matter materially to your business by locating and assessing your impacts and dependencies on nature, both onsite and in the supply chain, and evaluate the risks they pose.
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Develop the roadmap
Measure your biodiversity baseline, agree biodiversity ambition, and set science-based targets. Review and monitor progress to ensure your efforts are impactful, focused, yet adaptable.
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Look at the market
Investigate opportunities to invest in nature-based solutions to environmental and social issues that positively influence your value chain.
Act now to gain biodiversity advantages
Taking early action on biodiversity creates opportunities that make your business attractive to investors, customers, and employees.
Take a minute to watch Lars Tappert, Biodiversity Lead, explain which actions to take.
Turn biodiversity risk into opportunity
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Collaborate with value chain
Working in partnership with your supply chain and other stakeholders on sustainability issues can improve company performance on economic, environmental, and social metrics.
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Innovate processes and procedures
New technologies and new ways of thinking increase the possibilities of production and process innovation. Introduce circular economy principles to avoid and reduce impacts and dependencies on nature.
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Communicate using science-based evidence
Substantiate claims and content with science-backed strategies and data to avoid mistakes, reputational issues, and greenwashing risks.
EXPLORE OUR BIODIVERSITY PROJECTS
Our biodiversity and ecosystems specialists work with clients and projects around the world and across industries. Explore the challenges we help our clients solve through nature-positive solutions.
Biodiversity strategy cuts through complexity and mitigates risks in Pharma
We developed a comprehensive biodiversity strategy roadmap encompassing more than 40 sites for a global pharmaceutical company. Examining more than 60 global regulations, initiatives, and frameworks, we assessed impacts and dependencies on biodiversity and ecosystems, and assisted with EU CSRD reporting guidance.
Collaboration to understand interactions with nature
Ramboll worked with Valio, Finland’s leading dairy operator, to understand the company’s impacts on biodiversity, helping them pursue actions to conserve biodiversity and sustain the natural systems integral to its business.
Advancing on nature net positive ambitions for DFW International Airport
A global aviation leader, the Dallas Fort Worth International Airport (DFW) became North America’s first carbon-neutral airport in 2016. Now the airport is advancing toward being nature positive by 2040 by implementing a sustainability strategy including monitoring and enhancing biodiversity.
Nature-positive strategy and site biodiversity net gain
Ramboll advised a global pharmaceutical company on increasing the biodiversity value at key global sites as part of the client’s nature-positive ambitions. A biodiverse and vibrant corporate campus was created using a regenerative design approach informed by ecological principles, where people and nature flourish.
Monitoring in Silver Bow Creek Conservation Area
A long-term ecosystem services monitoring programme designed and implemented by Ramboll that monitors the effectiveness and remediation outcomes of historic mine contamination in the state of Montana, using nature-based solutions.
Biodiversity data driving nature net gain for infrastructure projects
Discover how Ramboll’s Galago team helped the UK National Highways to understand their interaction with nature and work towards a 10% biodiversity net gain across 7,000 km road network.
FEATURED INSIGHTS
The risk of greenwashing arises as companies seek to pursue ambitious nature and climate goals to meet stakeholder demands for sustainability. We explore how companies can safeguard against greenwashing by using science-based approaches to underpin their climate and nature strategies.
How to reduce business risk and stay ahead of the curve, as international policies to address biodiversity loss take effect.
FEATURED INSIGHTS
CONTACT A BIODIVERSITY EXPERT TODAY
Lis Nelis
Principal, Ecology and Biodiversity
+1 206-336-1659
United States of America
Lars Draht
Managing Consultant, Biodiversity & Ecosystems
+49 89 978970182
Germany
Mark Skelton
Global Service Line Director, Impact Assessment and Biodiversity & Ecosystems
+44(0)7810856383
United Kingdom