Our team work closely with our client in a workshop context to assess their relationship with nature, identify nature-related risks, identify nature-related opportunities and set targets and performance indicators. A Nature Strategy is then developed using the ACT-D (Assess, Commit, Transform and Disclose) framework and aligning with global sustainability, corporate disclosure and science-based target initiatives. Through a collaborative and consultative approach to determining material impacts and risks, we help clients identify clear science-based targets and indicators to address nature risks and impacts and work towards a Nature Positive outcome.

We draw on Australia’s largest private ecology practice and knowledge of ecological processes to identify, develop and optimise nature-based solutions (NbS) as a means to enhance the ecological and social outcomes from projects. Considering the eight core criteria from the IUCN Global Standard for Nature-based Solutions, along with the criteria indicators, we develop innovative solutions with multiple co-benefits that adhere to the Global Standard. This ensures that the NbS that are developed are holistic, systematic, integrated, evidence-based and clearly align with the accepted definition of NbS.

Natural Capital Accounting (NCA) considers the ecosystem services provided by an area containing an ecosystem, whether natural or developed. Our team use the United Nations System of Environmental Economic Accounting and applied at the site or project level, to conduct NCA. This enables a holistic consideration of social value, natural value and economic value and changes in these values over time (actual or forecast) to enhance the standard cost-benefit analysis.

Ecological restoration can enhance ecosystem services and ecological values and can provide value to clients, beyond the use of restoration for offsetting purposes. Our ecologists and restoration practitioners start with an opportunity lens to provide restoration planning by integrating the International Standards for Ecological Restoration and associated ecological and social recovery wheels with a systematic analysis of threatening processes and enabling conditions.

We work with companies to identify their nature-related dependencies, impacts, risks and opportunities in their areas of influence through a spatially-based and engagement-based approach with an integrated team of ecological, water, environmental and social engagement practitioners to support you along the way. The Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) has developed a set of disclosure recommendations and guidance that enable businesses and financial institutions to assess, report and act on their nature-related dependencies, impacts, risks and opportunities. The TNFD builds on the Taskforce for Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) framework both of which use the same pillars as used by the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB). As climate disclosures start becoming mandatory and ASIC flags that Australia will follow, there are strong indications that requirements for nature disclosures are likely to follow and that businesses should start preparing now.