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The SBTN Framework
Nature risk is business risk. Is your organisation ready to act?
The Science Based Targets Network (SBTN) provides a rigorous, science-led framework for companies to set quantified targets for nature, going beyond carbon to address biodiversity loss, freshwater use, land conversion, and more.
The SBTN is part of the Global Commons Alliance and works alongside the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi), expanding the scope of science-based target setting to cover the full range of pressures on the natural world. SBTN is compatible with other corporate sustainability frameworks including CSRD and TNFD. The same underlying assessment and prioritisation steps support alignment across all three frameworks simultaneously.
At Quest, we guide you through every stage of the SBTN journey, from initial assessment to public target disclosure..
The SBTN advantage
Aligning with SBTN isn’t just about compliance — it’s about strategic foresight and long-term resilience. Key benefits include:
- Scientific credibility: SBTN provides quantified targets grounded in the best available science, giving companies an evidence-based understanding of what they must collectively achieve to stay within planetary boundaries.
- Enhanced credibility & recognition: SBTN offers a validation service, allowing companies to gain external recognition for their target ambition and progress, building trust with investors, regulators, and customers.
- Risk management: By aligning with nature-positive goals, businesses proactively manage nature-related financial and reputational risks before they materialise.
- Framework interoperability: SBTN targets are compatible with CSRD, TNFD, and GRI (meaning a single assessment process supports multiple reporting obligations).
- Nature-positive economy: Setting SBTs for nature positions your business as a leader in the transition to a nature-positive economy (a growing expectation from institutional investors and global regulators).
Our specialized SBTN alignment process
We don’t believe in “box-ticking.” We use the SBTN’s recommended AR3T Framework to provide deep, actionable insights.
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Assess your nature footprint
We quantify your company’s pressures on nature across your full value chain. Using sector-appropriate metrics and best-in-class tools, we build a clear picture of where and how your business impacts nature. -
Prioritise on specific sites and pressures
We identify priority locations and pressure types where nature is most sensitive and your company has the greatest impact, ensuring that actions are focused where they will make the most meaningful difference. -
Set targets
We translate scientific thresholds and global goals into concrete, measurable targets for your business. Targets are ambitious, achievable, and aligned with earth system boundaries. -
Identify actions and define mitigation hierarchy
We help identify the right actions to achieve your targets, applying the AR3T mitigation hierarchy both within your operations and across your value chain. -
Track, disclose and report
We support preparation of SBTN-aligned public disclosures, ensuring consistency with CSRD (ESRS E4), TNFD, and GRI standards.
Why Quest for SBTN?
SBTN target setting requires a rare combination of deep ecology and strategic business expertise. We provide both.
- Ecological authority: Our nature experts bring scientific rigour to every assessment, ensuring your targets are credible and defensible.
- Reporting synergy: We ensure your SBTN journey supports your TNFD, CSRD, GRI, B Corp, and EcoVadis goals, creating a unified reporting ecosystem.
- Digital intelligence: Our digital team sets up the right dashboards, tools, and automations so complex nature and supply chain data can be interpreted and communicated with ease.
- Sector expertise: We bring industry-specific knowledge to ensure the correct balance of pragmatism and rigour in your target setting process.
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Client results
IMS
Helping 9 organizations (Caceis, Novotel, European Investment Bank, ...) on their nature journey
Inspiring and engaging 9 organisations around a common framework for Nature
Vlaamse Overheid
Setting up a Green Deal on Sustainable Supply Chains in Flanders
Mapping, engaging, and aligning stakeholders around a common framework.
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