Making Sense of New Approaches to Business Risk and Opportunity Assessment

Authors

• BSR Staff

  

These insights are particularly relevant to people engaged with environmental, social, and health impact assessments (ESHIAs), as well as businesses that receive funding from banks that have signed the Equator Principles, which now considers ecosystem services within its due diligence review processes.

The paper offers a snapshot of the state of practice related to applying ecosystem services concepts and approaches in companies, specifically within environmental and social impact assessments. This paper is not intended as a deep dive into the topic of integrating ecosystem services into ESHIAs; nor is it intended to provide a prescriptive plug-and-play approach to integrating ecosystem services into corporate decision-making processes.