WHAT WE DO

To help businesses and organizations transform towards achieving environmental sustainability, we
apply our specialized expertise in the following way :

Phase 1

Establish your business operational performance status against each planetary boundary limit
relevant in your business or industry sector. Systems thinking approach is used to support thorough
analysis.

phase 2

Based on findings from phase 1, we identify strategies that delivers healthy environmental outcomes
at the same time for multiple boundaries: cost effectively, and within your operational needs.

phase 3

With knowhow, insights, and strategies, we collaboratively implement approaches that helps the
business to operate within multiple planetary limits. Solutions are tailored to be fit-for-purpose
considering: geographical operational area(s), business (sector) unique features (agriculture, clothing,
mining, etc.), contextual operating procedures, or phase in the value- or supply-chain.

With our approach we aim to deliver two-fold outcomes.

I: Enhance management of non-marketed assets


Improve management of sharply diminishing non-marketed ecosystem goods and services – the environmental assets like water, good climate, fertile land, diverse species – through avoidance of exceeding their limits. Stable environmental assets are the platform that glues long-term economic prosperity, social development, wellbeing, and prosperity.

II: Optimize use of finite assets


Enhance your business’s ability to: manage effectively use of finite asset(s) where increasing scarcity is accounted for, and to design appropriate incentives, and investments to address planetary boundaries identified as of concern. Our Solutions not only consider each business’s unique and contextual operating conditions, but also to reinforce guardrails that protect humanity’s shared resource – the natural capital.

Brief background

For public and private entities to adopt planetary boundaries (hereafter PBs) as a platform to protect nature, its value and benefits must be clear – and tangible. Besides benefits, there is an undeniable truth. At the core of human wellbeing fulfilment of societal and economic needs – nature is the provider.

This raises urgency to preserve nature. Why? Because its loss impacts many dimensions of our lives including food and water security as well as businesses disruptions with respect to: operations, supply chains, and markets.

Earth systems that make it habitable are not just climate, but extent to freshwater, air, biodiversity, oceans, land, and nutrient cycles. In turn, this means nature-based risks are beyond climate change. Until recently, there was lack of science-based approach to address nature-based risks from company or entity level, region, country to global level.

Thanks to PBs framework. Now that is possible, and several businesses have started to adopt the framework as a tool to evaluate and address nature-based risks associated with their operations.

What are the PBs?

Planetary boundaries are a framework that defines limits at which humanity can operate safely
without exceeding the stability of the earth system. This would, for example, avoid destabilization of
nutrient cycles, stabilize desirable liveable state, and reduce probable risks of irreversible environmental change.

Nine PBs defines “the safe operating space for humanity”, and are: biodiversity loss, freshwater use,
climate change, biogeochemical flows, stratospheric ozone depletion, ocean acidification, land-use
change, chemical pollution (novel entities), and atmospheric aerosol loading.

They serve as the guardrails of human development without causing irreversible and catastrophic societal and environmental outcomes, if transgressed. The PBs are interwoven, and having complex feedback loops among themselves.

This raises need for businesses to consider ALL material PBs applicable in their sector and value- or supply-chains.  A sure future-facing approach not only to address nature-risks associated with a given business operations – but also safeguard its economic performance, and meet societal needs.

Benefits

Integration of PBs into business strategy and operations offers many benefits, namely:

  1. Enhance brand reputation.
  2. Reduce operational unit economic costs.
  3. Access or tap into new markets, e.g., through certification.
  4. Meet regulatory obligations by addressing multi-nature related risks
  5. Long-term business viability as most have moderate to high dependence on nature
  6. Meet customer, insurers and investors’ demand for eco-friendly products and services
  7. Accentuate actual risks to avert: ecological degradation, and supply chain disruptions
  8. Drive innovation and competitive edge including new revenue streams and partnerships

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