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CASE STUDIES
Examples of how we’ve helped organizations measure, manage, and improve their biodiversity performance.
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Our most comprehensive thinking on the methodologies, principles, and policies shaping biodiversity footprinting.
TNFD LEAP CASE STUDY
A practical walkthrough of a TNFD LEAP assessment, highlighting what worked, what didn’t, and lessons for future applications.
Unpacking corporate natural capital accounting (BS 8632, BD Protocol & UN SEEA): comparative analysis of case studies
A comparative analysis showing how leading corporate natural capital accounting (CNCA) approaches align, where they diverge, and what’s needed for a more standardised, complete CNCA
Accounting for net changes in ecosystem services due to changing land-uses: Case study on an agricultural-mining landscape mosaic in Carolina, Mpumalanga
A deep dive into how agricultural and mining land uses reshape natural-capital stocks and ecosystem-service dynamics in Carolina, Mpumalanga — and why net-impact accounting is
The Private Sector and Renewable Natural Capital in the Gaborone Declaration for Sustainability in Africa: Opportunities to bring the value of nature to business decision-making and planning
A roadmap for how African policy-makers and businesses are integrating renewable natural capital into planning, investment, and sector-level sustainability strategies.
Final Ecosystem Services for Corporate Metrics and Performance
Shows how the Final Ecosystem Services lens can strengthen materiality assessments, valuation accuracy, and corporate decision-making by bringing clarity to ecosystem service classification.
Impact of degraded freshwater ecosystems on tourism towards 2030 final technical report
Assesses how degrading freshwater ecosystems threaten South Africa’s tourism sector and highlights policy, restoration and community-based opportunities to safeguard long-term economic resilience.
Valuing nature’s contributions to people: the IPBES approach
Introduces the IPBES framework for valuing nature’s contributions to people and why inclusive, plural valuation matters for policy and business.
What natural capital disclosure for integrated reporting? Designing & modeling an Integrated Financial – Natural Capital Accounting and Reporting Framework
Proposes an integrated financial–natural capital accounting framework to help organisations better disclose their risks and performance.
Policy Gap 13 – Coping with Unsustainability (2). Critical analysis of Anglo American Platinum Corporation (Amplats). Sustainable Development Reporting (SDR) from 2003 to 2015.
Critically reviews Amplats’ sustainability reporting from 2003–2015, revealing major issues in disclosure, including socio-economic, environmental and community aspects.
2021 Biodiversity Performance Ratings of South African Companies
A benchmark of how South African companies recognise and manage biodiversity, highlighting improvements and the urgent gaps that remain.
2023 Corporate Disclosure Frameworks tracker
Compares leading voluntary disclosure frameworks to show how well they incorporate principles for quality biodiversity footprint assessment.
Natural Capital Protocol
A standardised framework that helps businesses measure, value and understand their dependencies and impacts on natural capital.
The 18 benefits of using ecosystem services classification systems
Lists the 18 practical benefits of using ecosystem services classification systems for policy, science and corporate decision-making.
Greenhouse gas accounting and net-zero target setting – the case for organisational ghg double-entry bookkeeping
Argues for rigorous GHG double-entry bookkeeping to improve net-zero credibility.
Time to Take Stock
Reflects on the shortcomings of current natural capital assessments and outlines steps for more rigorous, biophysical asset-based accounting aligned.