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.

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.

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
    • 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

  • Project

    Northwest Scotland

    Assynt Development Trust

    NW2045 Natural capital baseline assessment


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  • Project

    UK

    Plantlife International and WWF

    Government & Communities

    UK grassland trends and ecosystem service delivery


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  • Project

    UK

    Confidential

    Manufacturing & Industry

    Natural Capital awareness and training


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  • Project

    South Downs, UK

    T J Transport

    Mining & Minerals

    Ecosystem services statement – Buster Hill Chalk Quarry


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Our Team Includes

  • Sue Swain

    Head of Sustainability Solutions and Client Management - Europe

  • Stewart Lenton

    Nature and Natural Capital Lead – Europe

  • Andrea Wilcockson

    Technical Director, Ecology & Biodiversity

    (Worcester, England)

  • Ida Bailey

    Nature and Natural Capital Lead – Europe

  • Megan Raymond

    Principal Scientist, Wetlands & Waterways Lead

  • Matthew Sanford

    Manager of Ecology & Natural Resources Planning

  • Mark Carabetta

    Principal Environmental Scientist

  • Dan Govier

    Technical Director and Technical Discipline Manager, Marine Science – Asia Pacific

  • Dave Hall

    Technical Director and Technical Discipline Manager, Ecology and Biodiversity – Asia Pacific

  • Dr. Andrew Storey

    Technical Director, Ecology and Biodiversity – Asia Pacific

  • Jeremy Pepper

    Technical Director, Ecology and Biodiversity – Asia Pacific

  • Mark Poynter

    Technical Director, Marine Ecology - Asia Pacific

  • Scott Walker

    Technical Director, Ecology and Biodiversity – Asia Pacific

  • Keren Bennett

    Technical Director, Freshwater Ecology – Asia Pacific

  • Hamish Dean

    Principal Ecology Consultant, Asia Pacific

  • Ben Ludgate

    Principal Ecology Consultant and Dunedin Ecology Manager – Asia Pacific

  • Dr. Pete Wilson

    Principal Coastal Scientist – Asia Pacific

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Further Reading

Recent articles

  • Insight

    09 August 2023

    8 minutes read

    The evolving relationship between farmland and biodiversity

    by Ida Bailey


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  • Insight

    03 August 2023

    4 minutes read

    Understanding the EU Nature Restoration law: which targets made the final vote

    by Ida Bailey


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  • Insight

    27 July 2023

    5 minutes read

    Putting biodiversity at the heart of nature recovery

    by Ellen Miller


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