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Financial services

Portfolio screening and IFC PS6 due diligence.

Why nature evidence matters in financial services

Around 44 trillion US dollars of economic output, more than half of global GDP, is moderately or highly dependent on nature. Investors, lenders and regulators now treat nature loss as a material financial risk and expect credible, site-level biodiversity data before capital moves. For banks, asset managers and project-finance lenders, biodiversity evidence has become a bankability threshold and a disclosure obligation.

$44tnof global GDP is moderately or highly dependent on nature
$20tnof assets behind the TNFD framework, across 100+ institutions
~50 daysfrom sample to a lender-ready biodiversity baseline

Sources: World Economic Forum; TNFD; NatureMetrics.

Where it is used

The applications where nature evidence changes the outcome in financial services.

Pre-deal & pre-LOI screening

Screen a portfolio or acquisition target for nature-risk exposure, translating site-level pressure into financial consequence before capital is committed.

IFC PS6 & Equator Principles

Deliver the bankable baseline lenders require before drawdown on project finance, in around 50 days.

Portfolio TNFD & CSRD disclosure

Aggregate site-level data across thousands of assets into TNFD LEAP and CSRD outputs, with a full audit trail.

Covenant & drawdown monitoring

Run monitoring that produces year-on-year species trends in the format lenders accept, satisfying biodiversity covenants through the life of a loan.

Pricing nature-related risk

Give risk and investment teams the location-specific data to price nature into cost of capital and support green and sustainability-linked instruments.

The obligations driving it

The frameworks and requirements teams in financial services are held to.

IFC PS6
Equator Principles
TNFD
CSRD / ESRS E4
EU Taxonomy
GBF

Solutions and products for this sector

The parts of the platform that map to the obligations above.

From data gap to bankability threshold

Lenders under the Equator Principles have paused drawdowns on major projects when biodiversity baseline data was judged insufficient, and project finance is now routinely held up without it. NatureMetrics turns that liability into a controlled, repeatable input: a defensible baseline in around 50 days, aggregated into portfolio dashboards and pre-formatted for IFC PS6, TNFD and CSRD, so that risk, ESG and finance teams work from one auditable data standard, applied across every deal.

  • Bankable baseline in around 50 days
  • Portfolio screening across thousands of sites
  • Outputs pre-built for IFC PS6, TNFD and CSRD
Global Nature Risk portfolio map

3 years, 14 sites. After three years across 14 sites, our lenders now accept biodiversity data as standard, with no more requests for information and no more delays.

Director of Sustainability, global mining group

Put it to work on your sites

A walkthrough mapped to your sector and jurisdiction.