Every product and service has an environmental footprint, which includes carbon, water, soil and biodiversity.
- From raw materials extraction, to production and disposal, resources are used and emissions released, driving biodiversity loss.
- Biodiversity and ecosystem services are normally overlooked in environmental footprints.
- Finding ways of integrating nature information into Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) identifies hidden impacts.
How can Embed Nature help?
A-Track aims to propose a consistent calculation framework to quantify the footprint of products & organisations on biodiversity and ecosystem services (BES footprint):
- Building on Life Cycle Assessment and making use of nature data.
- Aligning with principles and concepts from Natural Capital Accounting.
- Aligning with reporting requirements.
