- Run a double materiality assessment for water (ESRS E3) and biodiversity (ESRS E4).
- Assess impacts, dependencies and risks with the TNFD LEAP approach.
- Focus on material topics to reduce compliance scope and effort.
Nature-related strategy and disclosure services
Turn nature complexity into actionable, audit-ready business strategy.
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Nature is the next frontier of corporate sustainability
Water scarcity and biodiversity loss are now material business risks, and investors, regulators and customers expect you to understand how your operations impact and depend on nature.
Most teams face fragmented data, overlapping frameworks and limited in-house expertise. Sphera helps you move from complexity to confidence across both water and biodiversity.
Identify what matters with structured materiality
Assess and quantify nature-related risks and dependencies
- Conduct expert-led assessments grounded in scientific evidence and scenario analysis.
- Perform financial modeling of transition risks and opportunities to evaluate impacts on cash flow, financial position and performance.
- Identify assets and revenues exposed to material physical risks.
Set strategy, targets and nature transition plans
- Translate nature-related assessments into actionable transition roadmaps.
- Integrate biodiversity and water considerations into business strategy, governance and capital allocation.
- Develop standalone nature transition plans or integrate nature into existing climate transition plans.
Report and disclose with audit-ready confidence
- Produce audit-ready disclosures aligned with ESRS E3/E4, TNFD, CDP, GRI, IFRS/ISSB and the EU Taxonomy.
- Close data gaps with expert support to ensure assurance readiness.
- Track progress against your nature targets over time.
Dr. Iris Matzke
Dr. Iris Matzke is a Senior Consulting Manager at Sphera with 15+ years of experience. She leads sustainability projects and strategies across product and corporate teams, with expertise in packaging, construction, chemicals, and food/agriculture.
Dr. Erik Pauer
Dr. Erik Pauer is a Principal Consultant at Sphera with 10 years of LCA and 15+ years of environmental experience. Since 2020, he has worked in Packaging, including end-of-life treatment. He has published 4 papers and is a biodiversity expert.
Anna Conrad
Anna Conrad is a Consultant in Sphera’s Strategic Advisory Services team, specializing in corporate sustainability, carbon accounting, and decarbonization. With a Geoecology and Biochemistry background, she bridges science and consulting for nature.
Why sustainability leaders choose Sphera for nature
Streamline compliance and avoid framework duplication from assessment to audit-ready disclosure
One partner, every framework
Integrated coverage across ESRS, TNFD, SBTN, CDP, GRI, IFRS/ISSB, the EU Taxonomy and ISO, so you avoid duplication and accelerate compliance.
Science-based and quantified
Decision-grade insight built on LCA, water data and biodiversity risks analysis, not qualitative estimates.
End-to-end
We take you from materiality all the way to audit-ready disclosure, so you never get stuck between assessment and action.
Assurance-ready
Close data gaps with expert support to ensure your disclosures meet the rigorous standards required for third-party verification and external audits.
Expert-backed
Leverage over 30 years of pioneering sustainability leadership and deep cross-industry expertise to confidently navigate evolving nature risks.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Why does nature matter for my business now?
Nature risks are fundamentally business risks. Issues like water scarcity and ecosystem decline lead to tangible financial implications, including severe supply chain disruptions and stricter regulatory penalties. To protect operational continuity and meet rising investor expectations, businesses must understand their dependencies on nature now.
How is Sphera different from a general sustainability consultancy?
General consultancies often lean on high-level qualitative assumptions, whereas Sphera provides a rigorously quantified approach. Our assessments are powered by our own proprietary datasets for LCA, water and biodiversity. To guarantee unmatched credibility, this data is updated annually and verified by independent third parties. Combined with deep regulatory expertise, we transform complex primary data into defensible compliance strategies.
Can one partner cover both water and biodiversity, and every framework we report under?
Yes. Sphera provides integrated coverage across water (ESRS E3) and biodiversity (ESRS E4), the TNFD, SBTN, CDP, GRI, IFRS/ISSB, the EU Taxonomy and ISO. One unified approach means you avoid duplicated effort, close the gaps between frameworks, and reach compliance readiness faster than stitching together several niche specialists.
How does Sphera's nature offering integrate with our existing sustainability goals?
Climate and nature can’t succeed in isolation. Sphera provides a holistic approach that links nature and biodiversity assessments directly to your carbon targets and transition plans. Your overall environmental strategy becomes unified, compliant and resilient over the long term as we eliminate the traditional silos between carbon and nature.
How does aligning with TNFD benefit my business?
TNFD is becoming the global benchmark for nature reporting. Aligning it represents a major commercial opportunity to uncover operational efficiencies, mitigate resource volatility and gain competitive edge by demonstrating long-term environmental resilience to both customers and partners.
