Seeing the wood from the trees: why are businesses finding it so hard to act on nature?
Join our virtual session on 6th November, in partnership with Nala Earth
Time: 15:00 - 16:00 GMT / 11:00 - 12:00 EDT / 16:00 - 17:00 CEST
Location: Microsoft Teams
We’re seeing a fundamental shift across the sustainability agenda: nature is no longer a side note. Forests, rivers, soil and biodiversity underpin our economies, yet many companies are still unsure where to start, what to measure, or how to turn ambition into real progress. With climate, businesses now have a cohesive framework for measuring and assessing progress - but with nature, we can’t afford the same decades-long development curve.
In this session, we’ll dig into the real blockers, drawing from and exploring insights from experts and practitioners. This session will be a practical and thought-provoking discussion - giving you what you need to spark important conversations internally, with customers, colleagues, and investors, and most importantly, to move from talk to action.
Register now to secure your place.
Places are limited to ensure a practical and discussion-led format.
How to sign up
We welcome sustainability practitioners with a focus on nature to join us. Please fill out the form below, and you’ll receive a calendar invite within 24 hours.
If you have any questions about the session, please do get in touch at info@sbandco.com - we look forward to seeing you there!
Please note, we are not including other consultants in these sessions.
The context
Unlike climate, nature has no single, comparable, universal metric. Measuring how a business depends on nature - and how its activities or inaction affect profitability - is far from straightforward. This complexity makes it difficult to identify pressure points, track progress or prioritise meaningful action. Without decision-useful metrics, nature risks being sidelined, deprioritised, or reduced to vague ESG commitments rather than integrated into strategy.
As a result, companies and investors may be misjudging their exposure, overlooking critical dependencies, and underestimating the scale of their impact. This has the potential to leave entire sectors at risk, leading to systemic financial repercussions - from asset devaluation and supply chain disruption, to regulatory shocks and wider market instability.
In our first webinar on nature, we’ll dig into the real blockers: the struggle to link nature to financial performance, the leadership gap that keeps priorities stuck on paper, and the complexity of metrics that leave many businesses spinning their wheels. This session will be a practical session - equipping you with the insights needed to spark meaningful conversations inside your organisation, with customers and investors, and most importantly, to shift from talk to action.
If nature is the next frontier in sustainability, it’s time we stop mistaking activity for progress - and start asking the harder questions.
We’ll also look to explore and discuss the following:
Do companies feel they have a genuine grip over the key nature-related dependencies their business models face, and how are they gauging the scale or significance of them?
How are companies translating their understanding of nature-related dependencies into operational changes, and what kinds of challenges are arising during this process?
What approaches or practices have helped overcome these challenges, particularly when viewed through a value creation or resilience lens?
How might investors adapt their engagement on nature to better support strategic change, rather than focusing mainly on encouraging disclosure?
To what extent could AI be used to link technical nature data with board-level financial insights in ways that help guide strategy, and what factors currently limit its effectiveness?
This session will be led by:
Nick Wyver
Sustainability Strategy Director | SB+CO
Lorna Davies
Senior Consultant SB+CO
Yoni Pasternak
COO | Nala Earth
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