Nature guidance series
IImagine a supplier that provides your business with services. The supplier provides essential raw materials, mitigates environmental risks and helps reduce your carbon emissions. Going further, this business partner also enhances the wellbeing of your workforce and strengthens the resilience of the markets and society you operate within. All for zero cost. Is nature the best business partner your organization has ever had?
Nature is the foundation on which all organizations depend. However, nature’s lack of visibility in our financial system means business operations have caused a significant decline in nature and biodiversity, amplified by the capital markets. That loss presents an existential risk to people and the economy.
The good news is that accounting and finance professionals have a vital role to play in shaping a nature-positive economy that supports long-term value creation. Finance teams can help their organizations to understand their nature-related impacts and dependencies and take steps to integrate nature-related risks and opportunities into business strategy and decision-making processes – essential activities for supporting your organization’s most important business partner.
A4S’s nature guidance series is was created to give finance teams the practical guidance and tools to help them fulfil this role.
Developing a business case for nature
You can access the first guide in the series – The Business Case for Nature – below. This guide explains why nature is vital to business and offers clear steps and practical tips for developing the business case for your organization.
Integrating nature and climate into financial decision making
You can access the second guide in the series – The Links Between Nature and Climate and the Implications for Financial Decision Making – below. This guide explores the interactions between nature loss and climate change, and why finance teams need to consider the resulting trade-offs and synergies in business decision making.
It provides practical guidance on integrating nature and climate considerations into key financial activities, including risk assessment, capital investment, scenario analysis, transition planning and reporting.
