S&P Global Sustainable1, the sustainability intelligence hub from the rating agency S&P Global, has launched a new “Nature & Biodiversity Risk” dataset assessing nature-related impacts and dependencies across a company’s direct operations that can be applied at the asset, company and portfolio level. This new dataset will support companies, investors and entities as they seek to understand, manage and mitigate exposure of corporates and portfolios to nature related risks and impacts.

The dataset includes dependency scores, describing the level of risk associated with a company’s reliance on 21 different ecosystem services, and the ecosystem footprint for companies, a new metric measuring operational impact on nature and biodiversity. A research based on the new dataset shows that 85% of the world’s largest companies have a significant dependency on nature across their direct operations.