Digitising Environmental Impacts using Geospatial Analytics

Nature risks are accelerating and now carry direct operational, financial, and reputational consequences. Regulators, investors, NGOs, and media in Europe and the U.S. are pressing companies to curb nature impacts, yet visibility is low: global portfolios span thousands of issuers, and firms source from distant locations with little site-level insight. The result is unmanaged exposure to location-specific biodiversity and water risks across supply chains and assets. 

PanGeo Nature Risk GmbH was founded to close this gap with a scalable, digital platform that objectively scores and compares company locations – mines, quarries, plantations, plants, and production sites – on biodiversity and water risks. Using Earth observation and complementary geodata, the platform will map companies’ spatial footprints, assess ecosystem capacity and monitor natural risks at the sub-national level, as well as within biomes and catchment areas.

The analytical workflows integrate life-cycle impacts and will deliver consistent, transparent and traceable indicators. The platform will enable investors to screen portfolios, prioritise investments and adjust portfolio weightings, and will allow companies to identify hotspots, plan measures and track progress. The starting point is the mining sector as the first target sector, where the methods will be calibrated through case studies and collaboration with the European COST Action REMINDNET on contaminated sites in mining regions. From there, the platform will scale up to the sectors of raw material extraction, industry and agriculture.

PanGeo Nature Risk GmbH has set itself the goal of bringing objective, location-based BioVaR analyses to market, enabling companies and investors to manage what matters.