Working Across Landscapes: An Investor Guide to Managing Nature Risk at Scale

This resource was originally published by CERES.

Investors have long understood the business risks that they—and the companies they’re invested in—are exposed to from deforestation and the loss of natural ecosystems to make way for agriculture or development.  

While several leading food companies, including Nestlé SA and Danone SA, are proving that cleaning up supply chains is possible, individual corporate policies and due diligence systems alone haven’t been enough to manage these risks.     

Now a growing number of companies are participating in collaborative, multi-stakeholder efforts to scale action in key sourcing regions called landscape initiatives.  

This report gives investors a practical framework for engaging companies on landscape initiatives: what to look for, what to ask, and how to distinguish credible participation.