Scoping a nature footprinting exercise
Summary
The Environment Agency (EA) wants to create a baseline nature footprint in order to measure and manage nature and biodiversity impacts with the same rigour as climate. They required support to adapt standard methodologies to a public body, and set the scope of the baseline nature footprint.
How we helped
Little Blue Research partnered with Jacobs and worked collaboratively as a fully integrated team to develop the scope of a nature footprint for the EA. The input we provided included:
• inputting into and leading steering group meetings, to ensure buy-in among the EA’s key internal stakeholders and share knowledge from our experience of nature footprinting
• setting out, agreeing and undertaking a materiality assessment
• undertaking a high-level impact and dependency screening assessment to understand the most important impacts and dependencies of the EA’s value chain on nature
• acting as a technical reviewer for other aspects of the project e.g. data gap analysis, interviews, framework review and reporting.
Client description
Environment Agency
12,000+ employees
Case study details
Strategic planning: implementation & disclosure
Government
UK
Capital(s)
Challenges
• Working within a tight timeframe to complete the scoping
• Understanding how existing data can be used to create a baseline for comparison of footprint
Outcomes
• A scope for the nature footprinting exercise to be used for a second stage tender.
• A report summarising the methodology behind the development of the nature footprinting scope.
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