Natural Capital Impact Group introduces new biodiversity metric to help companies and investors improve impact on natural environment

On World Biodiversity Day, the Natural Capital Impact Group, including Kering, Interserve, Mars and Asda, working together to determine how business can sustain the natural world and its resources, has released the initial stage of their work in developing a metric to help corporates improve their impact on the natural environment.

Company productivity is dependent upon a resilient environment. It therefore makes business sense for investors and companies to demonstrate positive impacts and show they are reversing the trend of natural environment degradation. The challenge is to identify metrics that are relevant for businesses’ decision-making processes, whilst being simple and practical for investors to use.

The metric is based on the impact of a company upon the quality and quantity of biodiversity, soil and water. A working paper published today, Healthy ecosystem metric framework by NCIG, details how this metric is constructed and provides insight into the impacts on biodiversity.