The Biodiversity Footprint Company (TBFC) is a specialist consultancy and research SME based in Cape Town, South Africa, working with clients internationally. We develop and apply methods that measure organisations’ impacts and dependencies on nature, and turn the results into decisions, targets and disclosures.
Our core expertise covers:
biodiversity accounting and footprinting across operations and value chains
natural capital accounting
No Net Loss / net gain and biodiversity offset methodologies
ecosystem condition assessment, including remote-sensing-based approaches
design of biodiversity monitoring programmes
assessment of biodiversity management performance
nature-policy and disclosure strategy, aligned with TNFD, CSRD/ESRS E4 and emerging ISSB requirements
Our clients include multinational companies in mining, energy, agriculture and finance, as well as international bodies. Our team also has experience working with the CBD and IPBES processes.
We were a research partner in CircHive, a Horizon Europe project. CircHive develops standardised methods that combine biodiversity footprinting with natural capital accounting, so that businesses and public bodies can measure, manage and report their impacts on nature.
Cape Town SME offering cost-effective biodiversity monitoring design and remote-sensing ecosystem condition methods for rigorous biodiversity accounting for HORIZON-NATURE-2027-02-05. Seeking a consortium; can lead or co-lead a work package.
Partner looking for consortium
HORIZON-NATURE-2027-02-05: Cost-effective biodiversity monitoring for EU policies
HORIZON-NATURE-2027-01-02: Better understanding, anticipating and addressing the biodiversity benefits and impacts of the clean and digital industries
HORIZON-NATURE-2027-02-02: Living labs co-creating solutions for the restoration of ecosystems addressing implementation bottlenecks and improving resilience to risks
Author
Director of Business Development at The Biodiversity Footprint Company
Seeking a consortium for HORIZON-NATURE-2027-01-03. We bring CircHive experience standardising biodiversity footprinting and natural capital accounting for business, and know how corporate nature decisions actually get made.
HORIZON-NATURE-2027-01-03: Systemic approaches to accelerate transformative change for biodiversity
Author
Director of Business Development at The Biodiversity Footprint Company
Biodiversity footprinting and No Net Loss specialists seeking a consortium for HORIZON-NATURE-2027-01-02. We bring impact metrics, ecosystem condition assessment and hands-on extractives and energy experience. Can lead a WP.
HORIZON-NATURE-2027-01-03: Systemic approaches to accelerate transformative change for biodiversity
HORIZON-NATURE-2027-01-02: Better understanding, anticipating and addressing the biodiversity benefits and impacts of the clean and digital industries
Author
Director of Business Development at The Biodiversity Footprint Company