Natural Capital & Ecosystem Services

Natural Capital is increasingly important for businesses as they seek to manage resource, climate, reputational and ESG challenges, as well as the wider environmental challenges around regulation & compliance, biodiversity net gain and environmental net gain.

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Overview

Understanding natural capital and ecosystem service impacts and developing a positive approach to natural capital is increasingly important as businesses seek to position themselves to manage the growing range of environmental issues.

SLR works with organisations to help them understand their environmental impacts, reduce these, and identify opportunities to move towards a positive environmental impact.

SLR supports organisations in using a Natural Capital approach to understand risks and opportunities. We have expertise across all areas of sustainability, environmental impacts, climate change, ecology and biodiversity.

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Natural Capital & Ecosystem Services Offering

  • Benefits of a Natural Capital approach
    • Manages supply chain and value chain risk
    • Maintain and enhance reputation
    • Drives behaviours
    • More engaged workforce
    • Better relations with shareholders and regulators
    • Business cost savings as well as opportunities
  • Our services include
    • Natural capital strategy
    • Natural capital baseline assessments
    • Natural capital/ biodiversity training
    • Natural capital accounting
    • Nature and biodiversity reporting & disclosure
    • Biodiversity planning
    • Ecosystem services assessments
    • Habitat planning and monitoring
    • Stakeholder engagement
    • Environmental impacts and dependencies register
    • Environmental improvement action plans
    • Environmental impact assessments
    • Environmental performance metrics and monitoring

Natural Capital & Ecosystem Services Projects

  • Purple mulla mulla flowers and yellow wattle on red soil with a rocky hill behind
    Project

    Perth, Australia

    Gold Road

    Mining

    Supporting Gold Road to adopt the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) framework


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  • Ecologist in hi-vis jacket sampling a stream with a net, with a white bucket beside them
    Project

    Peacocke, New Zealand

    Schick Civil Construction

    Built Environment

    Peacocke Whatukooruru Drive Fish Management


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  • Mangrove trees with tangled roots reflected in still water
    Project

    Multiple locations, Global

    UNIDO, Earth Security

    Government & Communities

    Climate change adaptation project support - sustainable finance


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  • Drawing of Kings Hill development. There is a pond with a boardwalk leading into a park with families, dog walkers and people exercising. Behind this park are some white houses.
    Project

    Coventry, UK

    Warwick District Council

    Built Environment

    Kings Hill masterplan and design code


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  • Visualisation of a large industrial building with grey cladding beside a road with a truck
    Project

    Fort William, UK

    Alvance British Aluminium

    Industry & Technology

    Environmental Impact Assessment - Alvance


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  • Mossy forest floor among pine trunks in low sunlight
    Project

    Scotland

    Foresight Sustainable Forestry

    Finance

    Bespoke BNG Metric for a Forestry Portfolio


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  • Kingfisher with wings raised emerging from the water after a dive, with splashes and ripples
    Project

    Scotland

    Confidential - Investment

    Industry & Technology

    Biodiversity credits for the voluntary market


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  • Satellite map of a peninsula with habitat types in yellow and green and watercourses in blue
    Project

    Northwest Scotland

    Assynt Development Trust

    NW2045 Natural capital baseline assessment


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  • meadow with grass and wildflowers
    Project

    UK

    Plantlife International and WWF

    Government & Communities

    UK grassland trends and ecosystem service delivery


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  • Close up image of a green and yellow flower
    Project

    UK

    Confidential

    Industry & Technology

    Natural Capital awareness and training


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  • Close-up of a dew-covered conifer branch with a small cone
    Project

    South Downs, UK

    T J Transport

    Mining

    Ecosystem services statement – Buster Hill Chalk Quarry


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  • Small group of people walking along a gravel shoreline beside a lake in summer
    Project

    Groton, Connecticut, USA

    Connecticut National Estuarine Research Reserve

    Built Environment

    Formulating a Site Plan to Support the Ecology and Management Needs of the Bluff Point Properties, in Groton CT


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Our Team Includes

  • Dan Govier, Technical Director, Ecology and Marine Science – Asia Pacific at SLR

    Dan Govier

    Technical Director, Ecology and Marine Science – Asia Pacific

  • Dave Hall, Technical Director, Ecology and Biodiversity – Asia Pacific at SLR

    Dave Hall

    Technical Director, Ecology and Biodiversity – Asia Pacific

  • Keren Bennett, Technical Director, Ecology and Marine Science – Asia Pacific at SLR

    Keren Bennett

    Technical Director, Ecology and Marine Science – Asia Pacific

  • Jeremy Pepper, Technical Director, Ecology and Biodiversity – Asia Pacific at SLR

    Jeremy Pepper

    Technical Director, Ecology and Biodiversity – Asia Pacific

  • Scott Walker, Technical Director, Ecology and Biodiversity – Asia Pacific at SLR

    Scott Walker

    Technical Director, Ecology and Biodiversity – Asia Pacific

  • Hamish Dean, Principal Consultant, Ecology and Marine Science – Asia Pacific at SLR

    Hamish Dean

    Principal Consultant, Ecology and Marine Science – Asia Pacific

  • Mike Youdale, Technical Director, Ecology & Biodiversity – Asia Pacific at SLR

    Mike Youdale

    Technical Director, Ecology & Biodiversity – Asia Pacific

  • Dr. Pete Wilson, Principal Consultant, Ecology and Marine Science – Asia Pacific at SLR

    Dr. Pete Wilson

    Principal Consultant, Ecology and Marine Science – Asia Pacific

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    News

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