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Introducing the Natcap Platform: Turning Nature Risks into Business Intelligence

Written by Natcap | 13 Jan, 2026

Nature is no longer a peripheral sustainability issue. From water scarcity and land-use change to biodiversity loss and tightening regulation, nature-related risks are now material business risks - affecting costs, supply chain resilience, financial performance, and long-term strategy.

Yet most organisations still struggle to answer some fundamental questions: Where do we depend on nature? Where are our biggest impacts and risks? Which of these are financially material, and what should we do about them?

Today, we’re proud to announce the launch of the Natcap platform: a nature intelligence platform designed to help organisations measure, report, and act on nature-related dependencies, impacts, risks, and opportunities across their value chains with precision and confidence.

 

Why Nature Risks Have Become a Business Imperative

Every business relies on nature. Companies depend on ecosystem services such as water availability, soil quality, and pollination, while simultaneously impacting nature through operations and supply chains. As ecosystems degrade and become less resilient, these dependencies and impacts increasingly translate into financial, operational, and reputational risks.

At the same time, expectations are rising. Regulators, investors, and customers are demanding credible, auditable disclosures aligned with frameworks such as the TNFD and CSRD. But for many organisations, existing approaches fall short.

Common challenges include:

  • Fragmented data spread across teams, systems, and suppliers
  • High-level or opaque methodologies and insights that don’t stand up to scrutiny
  • Limited internal capacity to translate complex nature data into decision-ready insights

The result is often qualitative assessments that are difficult to prioritise, hard to defend, and disconnected from business decision-making.

 

From Complexity to Clarity

The Natcap platform was built to close this gap.

It provides organisations with a single source of truth for nature-related analysis across their operations and value chain, combining high-resolution, location-specific nature data with financial and operational insight to turn complexity into clarity.

Built on best-in-class science and enterprise-grade technology, the platform enables companies to move beyond high-level assessments and generate credible, quantitative, and auditable intelligence that can be used with confidence by sustainability teams, risk managers, procurement leaders, executives, and boards.

 

Generate Decision-Ready Insight

Using the Natcap platform, organisations can:


Measure What Matters

  • Evaluate both the magnitude of impact and the state of nature, and compare your impacts across direct operations and supply chains in a standardised way
  • Identify critical risks by mapping dependencies on critical ecosystem services
  • Quantify both the likelihood and financial magnitude of nature-related physical and transition risks


Report with Credibility

  • Extract key metrics for disclosure in line with frameworks such as the TNFD and CSRD
  • Ensure auditability with a clear data trail linking every source and calculation
  • Manage data updates and communicate progress over time with a repeatable, scalable, and reliable process


Act with Confidence

  • Turn complex assessments into clear, prioritised actions tailored for teams, suppliers, and internal communication
  • Highlight the most critical risks (e.g., land use change, water use) and enable prioritisation by topic, activity, site, or supplier
  • Guide supplier engagement with targeted questions and actions based on identified risks (e.g., deforestation)

Together, these capabilities allow organisations to embed nature into business strategy—rather than treating it as a standalone reporting exercise.

 

How it Works

At the core of the Natcap platform is a robust, transparent analytical engine.

The platform ingests:

  • Customer location, operational, and supply chain data
  • Best-in-class third-party datasets

These inputs are analysed through our proprietary methods and datasets, applying standardised metrics, thresholds, and aggregation methods across sites, commodities, and value chains. The result is a set of contextualised nature insights, supported by auditable methodology and enriched by Natcap’s scientific expertise.

This approach ensures that insights are not only scientifically credible, but also comparable, repeatable, and decision-relevant, enabling organisations to track progress over time and respond as risks evolve . 


More than Software: Platform Plus Strategic Advisory Services

Natcap’s platform is released alongside expert technical advisory support.

Customers typically begin with an initial screening and location identification, followed by an assessment of dependencies and impacts. From there, they can drill deeper into site-specific, commodity-level, and supply-chain risk insights, supported by Natcap’s multidisciplinary team of scientists and advisors.

The platform integrates seamlessly into existing workflows, allowing teams across sustainability, procurement, risk, and leadership to collaborate around a shared, trusted evidence base.

Why Natcap

Founded in 2018 by scientists at the University of Oxford, Natcap combines scientific rigour with practical solutions for business.

Our platform is trusted by world-leading companies and partners and is built on:

  • High-resolution, location-specific metrics across over 200 commodities
  • Standardised, comparable methodologies aligned with TNFD and CSRD
  • World-leading capabilities to quantify financial exposure to nature-related risk
  • Transparent, peer-reviewed science supported by robust data governance

The result is nature intelligence that stands up to scrutiny from executives, boards, investors, and regulators alike.

 

See the Natcap Platform in Action

Nature risk is business risk, but it can also be a source of resilience, insight, and opportunity.

The Natcap platform helps organisations understand where nature matters most to their business, quantify the value at stake, and take action where it counts.

To learn more, download the brochure and take a short tour of the platform today here