A biodiversity and ecosystem services footprint

This report outlines the A-Track approach to the development of a Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Footprint (BES Footprint) for products and organisations. The report also investigates the complementarity between Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and natural capital accounting (NCA), identifying how combining both approaches can help address current methodological and data gaps in biodiversity and ecosystem services assessment in LCA. The report is mainly addressed to LCA practitioners and researchers in business and academia looking to integrate biodiversity (and nature more broadly) in LCA for improved decision making, towards better aligning business operations and supply chains with nature positive outcomes.