Nature Positive Corporate Assessment Guide for Financial Institutions 2025
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A company’s nature ambition represents its intended
contribution to the nature transition, clarifying the
outcomes it wants to achieve, where it will focus
and the role it wants to play. A nature ambition is
a higher-level indicator compared to nature targets.
Financial institutions seek the following information
from companies when assessing this indicator:
–Overall objectives and priority areas the
company aims to address, linked to the
company’s impacts and dependencies, and
risks and opportunities –Alignment of the ambition with the 2030 targets
and 2050 goals of the GBF
–Span of the business model and value chain
considered, including location of direct
operations and activities by sector, value chain
and geography
–Period in which the ambition is to be achieved
(e.g. 2030, 2050)
–Links to climate ambition where relevant2.3 Indicator 3: Nature ambition
CASE STUDY 3
Swiss Re
Swiss Re aims to support clients with tools to assess data on
nature and climate-related dependencies and risks.
To support clients in understanding and mitigating their
nature risks, Swiss Re provides services designed to support
nature-related risk assessment and reporting capabilities.
These include data and analytics services that can identify
locations of high nature and climate risk and offer bespoke,
actionable risk recommendations.
For example, as part of its service offering for reinsurance
and corporate clients, Swiss Re provides an interactive online
platform – called the Risk Data & Services (RDS) platform.
This platform combines climate risk assessments with nature
risk data and natural catastrophe risk profiles of client assets
or supply chains. Swiss Re supports clients in responding to
their regulatory reporting requirements, and approximating
the role of climate change and nature dependency in their
assets and business models.Furthermore, the internationally patented Biodiversity and
Ecosystem Services (BES) Index provides peer-reviewed
data on the capacity of 10 different BES categories (e.g.
water security, contribution of wild pollinators, water quality
and soil fertility) at a resolution of 1 km² across the globe. The
platform combines the BES Index with ENCORE’s materiality
ratings for sector dependency and impact on nature.
To complement the analysis using the BES Index, clients
can further analyse their assets and supply chains against
the biodiversity datasets available through the Integrated
Biodiversity Assessment Tool (IBAT) – namely key
biodiversity areas, protected areas and the IUCN Red List
of Threatened Species.
These services and capabilities can support clients towards
the goal of conducting multi-location comparisons across
portfolios (e.g. for insurers) or suppliers (e.g. for corporates).
Source: Swiss Re.
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