What does nature actually return?
Step 3 of the journey, in full: what a change in nature is worth to companies sourcing from or operating within the landscape.
Imagery © Esri, Maxar, Earthstar Geographics, USDA, USGS, AeroGRID, IGN and the GIS user community
Every landscape in the tool, sized by programme hectares. Drag to spin.
Imagery © Esri, Maxar, Earthstar Geographics, USDA, USGS, AeroGRID, IGN and the GIS user community
Every landscape in the tool, sized by programme hectares. Drag to spin.
The same six steps, whatever the asset
Every case in the tool runs through one method. Only the landscape changes.
Pick the landscape
an asset and the landscape it depends on.
State the baseline
what happens to it with no intervention at all.
Cost the intervention
what is done, over how long, and who pays for it.
Value what changes
the same landscape, run twice, and the gap between the two.
Buy credits or fund it yourself
buy the outcome, or build it yourself.
Leave with a case
a number, its assumptions, and what would change it.
What the tool covers
Five kinds of asset, each with its own way of depending on nature.
Agriculture
Sourcing landscapes where a warming climate slowly takes away the land's ability to grow the crop, and the buyer pays for it in cost of goods.
Forestry
Stands where growth, stocking and the size of what comes out of the mill decide the value, and where the intervention is a change in how the forest is managed.
Data centres
Sites that cool with water from a stressed catchment. When it runs short they pay more to cool, and in the driest years run less.
Hydropower
Stations that sell the power their turbines make. When the catchment sends less water than usual, they make less, and those sales are not made up later.
Nuclear
Plants that cool with river water. When the catchment runs short they make less power, and those sales are not made up later.
Your industry isn’t here?
The method is the same wherever a business depends on nature. This explains how to apply it to your own case.