Pharmaceuticals

Strengthen Resilience Across Pharmaceutical Supply Chains and Manufacturing

Identify, quantify, and prioritise environmental risk across critical raw materials, CDMOs and API manufacturing to protect supply continuity, mitigate operational disruptions, support compliance and strengthen business decision-making.

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The Challenge

Pharmaceutical companies depend heavily on nature. Around 80% of medicines trace their origins to natural sources (source), and pharmaceutical value chains rely on stable ecosystems for bio-based ingredients and animal-derived inputs.

Limited upstream traceability, particularly of more obscure pharmaceutical commodities, complex global sourcing chains and unclear methodologies can make it difficult to identify where risk is concentrated, assess which inputs and sites are most exposed, and decide where action is most needed.

30 drugs The US Food & Drug Administration reported that 30 drugs were at risk of national shortages after Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico, home to ~25% of US pharmaceutical exports.*

7.5% In 2024, 7.5% of Lilly’s total water intake occurred at sites in geographies that are defined as “water stressed”.**

3x increase In 2018, the price of medical-grade agar increased 3x due to shrinking supply of wild red seaweed, compared to prices before the scarcities began.***

How Natcap Helps

With Natcap, pharmaceutical companies can identify, quantify, prioritise and communicate environmental risks across manufacturing sites, sourcing regions and supply chains.

We combine location-specific environmental intelligence with business context to show where risks are concentrated across critical raw materials, products, suppliers and direct operations. This helps companies move beyond broad screening and focus on the exposures most relevant to procurement, manufacturing resilience, strategy and reporting. This enables pharmaceutical companies to:

Understand Dependencies

Understand how complex supply chains interact with nature.

Identify & Prioritise Risks

Identify priority risk hotspots across critical inputs, suppliers, sourcing regions and sites, including risks that could disrupt manufacturing continuity, product availability and patient access. Prioritise exposures across water-dependent sites, supplier networks and sourcing regions.

Protect Access & Safeguard Supply Protect access to the natural inputs and ecosystem conditions that support future drug discovery and development and safeguard the supply of critical raw materials and inputs used in existing medicines.

Build the Case for Action Build stronger business cases for action across procurement, operations, risk and leadership teams and support more mature and actionable environmental strategies linked to compliance and long-term resilience.

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Corporate Environmental Risk & Opportunity

Quantify environmental risk to strengthen business resilience.

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Supply Chain Risk & Resilience

Pinpoint where environmental risks threaten your supply chain.

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Environmental Risk Reporting & Disclosure

Prepare audit-ready disclosures with confidence.

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Advisory Services

Future-proof your business with a robust environmental strategy.

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Why Natcap

Environmental intelligence built for better business decisions.

Unrivalled Precision & Accuracy

Identify where nature-related risk is concentrated across bio-based ingredients, agricultural feedstocks, animal-derived inputs and upstream supplier networks.

Insights for Manufacturing Resilience

Understand how water stress, ecosystem degradation and biodiversity loss could affect manufacturing continuity, sourcing decisions and product availability.

Decision-Useful Outputs

Use scientifically sound, defensible and repeatable analysis that teams can explain internally and act on confidently.

The Challenge

How Natcap Helps

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Pinpoint risks. Quantify exposure. Strengthen resilience.

Why Natcap?

Unrivalled Precision & Accuracy Across Critical Pharmaceutical Inputs

Insights for Manufacturing Resilience

Decision-Useful Outputs

We partner with leading organisations around the world to deliver cutting edge research and market-leading solutions.

Why Natcap

Resources

Nature Risk in Action: Financial Impacts Across Global Companies

China’s New Environmental Code: What Businesses Need to Know

3M and PFAS: How Environmental Impacts Became a Multibillion-Dollar Nature Risk

From Heatmaps to Action: how Financial Institutions Can Get to Grips with Environmental Risk

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