Developing a roadmap for integrating nature and biodiversity into business decision-making and disclosures
Summary
BT Group required technical support to develop a roadmap to enable integration of nature into business decision-making and potential future disclosures.
How we helped
Little Blue Research supported BT Group by:
• conducting a prioritisation process across more than 8,000 BT Group facilities and undertook a screening for both nature-related risks and opportunities alongside a series of nature-related analyses using spatial data across the client’s key suppliers and own facilities;
• undertaking a screening to determine potential areas where biodiversity actions/interventions could be used to restore habitats; and
• developing a roadmap to set out actions for the shorter and longer term to help the client begin integrating nature into business decision-making.
Client description
BT Group
100,000+ employees
Case study details
Main service: Strategy & risk
Sector: Technology and communications
Assessment location: UK
Capital(s)
Challenges
• Engaging with multiple business units and contacts and identifying relevant internal stakeholders.
• Obtaining supplier and facilities spatial data to map locations and identify high-risk areas and potential sites where there may be opportunities for nature restoration.
Outcomes
• Developing a living nature roadmap to enable the integration of nature-related risks and opportunities into business processes.
• Prioritising facilities across the company based on their nature interface and the potential nature-related risks and opportunities on-site.
"The team at Little Blue Research helped us start understanding our impacts and dependencies on nature throughout our own operations and our supply chain. There is still a lot more for us to do, but based on this work, we have a much better understanding and useful starting point”
Gabrielle Ginér, head of environmental sustainability at BT Group.
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