Finance for a sustainable future

Environmental factors may directly or indirectly affect a company’s financial position, including costs, revenues, and asset value.

Travel and tourism depends heavily on nature. Conditions in nature can affect people’s well-being, which shapes health care priorities. In many industries, there is more to nature-related impact than direct effects such as storms or floods.

The EU’s Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) and US state and federal rules and regulations in other jurisdictions impose detailed materiality, assessment, transparency, and methodology requirements.

Factoring nature into planning may unlock advantages in sourcing, manufacturing, or other areas.

Sustainability incentives and credits may reward planning with a nature lens.

From regenerative agriculture to data center cooling, telecommunications grids, pharmaceutical ingredients and more, nature-related visibility and planning may benefit many sectors in surprising ways.