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Framework gap assessment
Where you stand today against TNFD, ISSB S1, GRI 101 and CSRD / ESRS E4 and what it takes to close the gap.
impacts, dependencies, risks and opportunities, mapped end to end
LEAP assessment and disclosure built to be assured
LEAP assessment and disclosure built to be assured
Every business draws on ecosystems it never prices and affects habitats it never counts. As those systems come under strain, the risk flows straight back to operations, supply chains, licenses and reputation. Managing nature is no longer a conservation gesture; it's the protection of an input your business runs on.
THE NATURE LENS
Cognitud looks at your relationship with nature through four connected questions: the impacts you create, the dependencies you rely on, and the risks and opportunities that follow. Together they turn a vague obligation into a managed position.
How your operations and value chain act on nature: land use, water draw, pollution, habitat change.
What your business quietly relies on to function: pollination, freshwater, stable soils, timber, fish, minerals.
The physical, transition, regulatory and reputational risk that nature loss and new rules create for you.
Restoration, nature-positive products, operational resilience, and improved access to capital.
WHERE COGNITUD HELPS
Cognitud supports the full nature agenda: establishing where you stand, valuing what's at stake, setting a credible strategy, and reporting it in a form regulators and investors will accept.
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Where you stand today against TNFD, ISSB S1, GRI 101 and CSRD / ESRS E4 and what it takes to close the gap.
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Put a defensible value on the nature your business uses and affects, so it can enter real decisions.
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A nature strategy aligned to your business objectives, with science-based targets set to SBTN.
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Navigate tightening nature-disclosure and compliance obligations across the markets you operate in.
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Nature disclosures prepared to be reported and to withstand independent assurance.
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Equip your teams and stakeholders to carry the nature agenda themselves, long after the first report.
HOW WE WORK · THE LEAP APPROACH
Cognitud runs nature assessments on the TNFD's LEAP approach — the discipline that takes you from “where do we even touch nature?” to a plan you can act on and disclose.
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Find your interface with nature across your own operations and your value chain — the places that matter.
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Assess your impacts and dependencies on nature at those locations, grounded in real, geospatial evidence.
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Size the risks and opportunities that follow — physical, regulatory, reputational and commercial.
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Decide how to respond, set targets, disclose against the standards, and monitor whether it's working.
STANDARDS & EVIDENCE
Nature reporting only counts if it satisfies the standards and rests on evidence. Cognitud builds a double materiality view that folds nature-related impacts, risks and opportunities into one assessment — the same lens your climate and wider ESG reporting already use.
And rather than lean on generic proxies, Cognitud uses geospatial and remote-sensing data to establish a biodiversity baseline, read the current state of nature across your sites, and track how ecological conditions shift over time.
THE QUESTIONS WE ANSWER
Where does my business actually touch nature and how exposed am I to its loss?
What do my operations depend on in nature, and what happens if those systems fail?
How do I meet TNFD, CSRD / ESRS E4 and ISSB nature disclosure without guesswork?
How do I set credible, science-based nature targets my board can stand behind?
How Cognitud helps
Develop integrated forestry management approaches that balance conservation, restoration, and sustainable resource use, strengthening forest health, enhancing carbon sequestration potential, and supporting long-term environmental and economic value across managed landscapes.
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KEY OUTCOMES
Working with Cognitud, you turn nature from an unseen risk into a managed business issue. You understand where your business depends on nature and where it affects it: impacts and dependencies mapped, the risks sized, and the opportunities named rather than assumed.
That understanding becomes a nature strategy with science-based targets your board can defend, disclosures aligned to TNFD, CSRD and ISSB that stand up to assurance, and a monitoring system that tells you whether you're genuinely improving. The result is resilience where you were exposed — and a credible, nature-positive story that regulators, investors and customers will actually believe.
GET STARTED
Tell Cognitud about your operations and value chain. We'll scope a nature assessment that locates your exposure and sets you on a credible, disclosable path.
Map your nature exposure → info@cognitud.com