Nature degradation is no longer a distant environmental concern - it’s a direct and growing threat to global supply chains. Extreme weather events, declining soil health, water scarcity, and ecosystem loss are already disrupting production, raising input costs, and increasing volatility across critical commodities. And for most companies, these risks lie not in their direct operations but deep within their supply chains, where visibility is limited and data is fragmented.
Despite the urgency, businesses struggle to act on nature risk in their supply chains. Supplier locations are often incomplete or inaccurate. Many existing tools offer only qualitative, country-level insights that are too general to support confident decision-making. Sustainability teams face tight budgets, limited time, and insufficient analytical capacity. As a result, even leaders committed to addressing nature-related risk lack the defensible, decision-ready intelligence needed to respond.
Natcap’s new Nature Intelligence Suite for Supply Chains changes this.
Built on world-leading science , the suite delivers the quantitative, transparent, and actionable insights organisations need to identify nature-related risks early, prioritise mitigation, and strengthen the resilience of their supply chains with confidence.
Understanding nature-related risk in supply chains requires precision: knowing not just what commodities you source, but where they come from and how they interact with the natural environment. Today, companies face three core challenges:
Natcap’s new suite is built to overcome these barriers, offering a scalable, automated, and scientifically rigorous way to understand the true nature-related risks and opportunities across global supply chains.
Natcap’s Nature Intelligence Suite for Supply Chains equips companies to evaluate nature-related dependencies, impacts, risks, and opportunities across their supply chains, even when company-specific data is limited.
The suite provides:
Together, these capabilities give companies a holistic, defensible, and decision-ready understanding of where nature risk lies, and what to do about it.
Dependency & Impact Evaluation
Natcap’s Nature Intelligence for Supply Chains Suite makes it easy for companies to target and prioritise impact mitigation efforts to achieve the highest return on investment. It does this by identifying which products, commodities, suppliers, and locations drive the greatest impacts on nature. With the Suite, it is easy to compare impacts between sites and commodities, and across impact drivers, commodities, products, regions and suppliers. With global coverage of 200+ commodities across six impact drivers, companies can be confident that all critical commodities have been assessed.
Learn more here.
Risk & Opportunity Assessment
The Nature Intelligence for Supply Chains Suite enables companies to evaluate both physical and transition risks across more than 200 commodities and more than 1,000 nature-related risk types. The Suite quantifies both the likelihood and financial magnitude of risks, giving organisations a clear view of potential supply chain disruption and cost implications, and ultimately, how to prioritise mitigation efforts effectively.
Beyond risks, the suite highlights nature-related opportunities that create business value while restoring and protecting nature. Companies will be equipped with quantitative outputs to justify its opportunities assessment and estimate the return on investment for both the business and nature:
Learn more here.
This followed five years of poor crops, owing to severe drought and disease, specifically citrus greening, a disease caused by bacteria spread by insects that reduces sugar content, making oranges less sweet.
It was compounded by two major simultaneous supply shocks.
Brazil: Brazil, which is the world’s leading exporter of orange juice, accounting for 75% of the global market, had its worst crop since 1988. Severe drought and heat stress drastically reduced crop yields and tree health. In some parts of Brazil’s citrus belt, ⅔ orange trees were affected.
Florida: Florida is another major exporter of oranges, but output over the past year has been the lowest since the Great Depression, amid a high number of hurricanes and long-term problems caused by citrus greening.
How producers are responding:
Research and development: Some major commercial producers, including Coca-Cola (which owns Minute Maid and Innocent) have contributed to a project called Save the Orange which is using AI to find a way to combat citrus greening.
Product innovation: One of Tropicana’s recent product innovations in the US has been to launch an “essentials” brand of orange juice “blends”, combining orange, apple and pear juice, at a lower price.
The companies that thrive in the coming decade will be the ones that understand - and act on - their nature-related risks. Natcap’s Nature Intelligence Suite for Supply Chains gives businesses the scientific rigour, data precision, and actionable intelligence they need to: