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Beyond carbon: integrating nature into the core of your business
Biodiversity: not a metric to be offset, but a complex system to be understood, managed and restored.
For decades, corporate sustainability has focused almost exclusively on carbon. But climate change and biodiversity loss are two sides of the same coin. At Quest, we help organizations transition to a nature-positive model by treating biodiversity as a critical business asset.
Led by our topnotch nature experts, we provide the scientific rigor to establish baseline measurements, the strategic insight to assess nature-related dependencies, the technical capability to implement restoration that lasts, and the skills to turn all of that into a credible, authentic story.
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Our biodiversity services
Nature-positive strategy
We build your nature strategy and roadmap and help you communicate it to all stakeholders.
Biodiversity baseline measurement
We assess your biodiversity footprint across operations and supply chains, conduct site-level surveys and eDNA analysis where precision is needed, and value the ecosystem services your business depends on, giving you a rigorous, decision-ready biodiversity baseline.
Nature materiality & risk assessment (TNFD and LEAP alignment)
We guide you through the TNFD’s LEAP approach and the RODI framework to identify, assess, and disclose your nature-related risks and dependencies with the rigor that investors, regulators, and stakeholders expect.
Regenerative business models & nature-based solutions
We help businesses and financial institutions design the models, strategies, and partnerships that make regeneration not just possible, but commercially viable.
Our approach: the ACT-D and LEAP framework
We can align your organization with the TNFD framework to identify where your value chain is most vulnerable to ecosystem collapse. To do so we follow the ACT-D and LEAP frameworks for the following:
- Impact and dependencies mapping: identifying which ecosystem services your business impacts and relies on, across your entire value chain
- Identifying nature risks and opportunities
- Nature materiality matrix
- Commit: setting clear targets and KPIs and develop the roadmap to get there
- Disclose: helping you communicate clearly and authentically about your progress
Why work with Quest for nature?
- Strategic and scientific depth: Our team includes experts in sustainable supply chains, nature and carbon who ensure your data and strategy are technically sound and grounded in reality. We can guide you from conducting a boots-on-the-ground biodiversity baseline measurement to a nature-positve strategy, and actually helping you communicate authentically about all of this.
- We walk the talk: with Habitats, we’ve founded our own hyper ambitious non-profit organization focused on nature restoration and conservation. With projects across the world in tropical rainforest conservation, coral reef restoration, mangrove planting and endangered species protection, we’re just getting started. This also means we can help you voluntarily compensate for any nature pollution in your value chain, using our own validated projects.
- Digital dashboard: Thanks to our agency for good department, we centralize all your data in action-focused dashboards, making decision making and impact reporting a walk in the park.
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Case Studies and Results
IMS
Facilitating the Biodiversity Community of Practice
Inspiring and engaging 9 organisations around a common framework for Nature
Habitats
Building and growing a biodiversity nonprofit
Discover how we built Habitats from the ground up, from composing the team to full organizational development.
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Relevant content
Quest joins Luxembourg Task Force on Finance for Biodiversity
TNFD: the next big thing in sustainability reporting. Here's why.
Nature loss is officially a business risk
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FAQ
While Net Zero focuses on balancing greenhouse gas emissions, Nature-Positive is a broader goal. It refers to a state where nature —species richness, healthy soil, and clean water— is being restored rather than depleted. By 2030, a nature-positive business must ensure there is more nature in the world than there was in 2020. We help you align these two strategies so your climate actions don’t inadvertently harm biodiversity.
Yes, if your company falls under the scope of the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD). Specifically, ESRS E4 (Biodiversity and Ecosystems) requires companies to disclose their impacts, risks, and opportunities related to the living world. We specialize in the double materiality assessments required to determine exactly which ecological factors are material to your financial and impact performance.
Not directly. While some carbon projects have biodiversity co-benefits, many generic offsets (like monoculture tree plantations) can actually harm local ecosystems. We advocate for High-Integrity Habitat Restoration. Through our partnership with Habitats, we help you invest in nature-based solutions that prioritize species recovery and ecosystem resilience alongside carbon sequestration.
The LEAP approach is a structured process to manage nature-related risks.
- Locate: Mapping your assets and supply chain against priority ecosystems.
- Evaluate: Identifying your dependencies (e.g. “Do we depend on this watershed?”).
- Assess: Quantifying the financial and physical risks of ecosystem decline.
- Prepare: Designing the strategic response and disclosure.
Quest guides you through every letter of this acronym to ensure your TNFD disclosure is technically sound.
Absolutely. While your direct office footprint may be small, your Scope 3 (supply chain) and your investment portfolio likely have significant nature dependencies. From the materials in your hardware to the land use associated with your employees’ food or your company’s real estate, every business is embedded in nature. We help service-based firms identify these hidden ecological links.
Most companies start with our Impact Scan. We use secondary data and sector-specific heatmaps to identify your most likely Nature Hotspots. From there, we move to targeted primary data collection in your most material locations. You don’t need to measure everything at once; you need to measure what matters most.
PS: If you’ve already gathered data for a carbon footprint, this is a very good start for your biodiversity footprint as well!
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The transition to a nature-positive economy is the greatest design challenge of our time. Let’s build a business that gives back more than it takes.
