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Factor-X

The Climate
Consulting Group SPRL

Avenue de la Paix 3
1420 Braine-l'Alleud
BELGIUM

T: +32 2 387 17 87
Fax: +32 2 888 63 34
TVA : BE 0890 101 395
Email : info[at]factorx.eu

Ecosystem Services and Products

Grasp opportunities to work with biodiversity ! Reinforce the environmental strategy of your company or territory thanks to the global and integrated management of interdependencies between your activities and the environment.

Why ask Factor-X ?

Your organisation depends on ecosystem services and products to function properly:

  • Upstream : access to natural resources, raw material supply, pollination, flood regulation…
  • Downstream through its activities which have a definite impact on nature’s capital providing these ecosystem services : nutrients overload of soils, soil and surface deterioration, habitat loss…

 

Our objective analysis allows you to understand your ecosystem interdependencies, and to conceive action plans that are cleverly inserted in your long term sustainability plan.

What can we do together ?

We analyse the dependency level of your activities and their direct and indirect impacts of services provided by nature and integrate risk and opportunity management related to ecosystem services in the core of your strategy :

  • Understanding and quantifying risks related to ecosystem services along your value chain: from the suppliers you depend from to the impact of your company's operations, your services and products on your clients
  • Assessing these services with economic value in order to express their importance regarding your financial reporting
  • Developping a specific environmental accounting through the valuation of your dependency and impacts (positive and negative) on ecosystems
  • Identifying and develop new market opportunities and new business models
  • Reducing your consumption, operational costs, environmental impact and risks associated to your raw materials supply
  • Participating in the development of the coming benchmark related to sustainability
  • Federating, raising awareness, differentiating your company…

Our focus areas

Sustainable development strategy related to ecosystem services including suppliers and clients, of ecosystem services, follow-up tools, training and awareness raising

Methodologies

To conduct ecosystem services assessment, Factor-X refers to :

  • ESR© (Ecosystem Service Review) and CEV © (Corporate Ecosystem Valuation) methodologies, which allow to diagnose your level of dependency towards ecosystems. These methodologies, developed by the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, comprise the identification of interactions of ecosystem services with your organisation and the quantification of the impact of your activities on the environment
  • A multi-scope approach along the value chain, leading to in-depth analysis of existing environmental interactions between sectors, enterprises or other stakeholders.
  • Additional expertise with our partners (research institutes, universities…) and within Factor-X itself with greenhouse gases and water resources consultants.

What can we do together ?

We analyse the dependency level of your territory and the impacts of local activities on ecosystem services.

Our objective is to guide you in establishing concerted management plans, in ensuring the sustainability and optimisation of the various ecosystem services and products with the associated economic and social challenges.

You will obtain many benefits from our co-operation :

  • Understanding, quantifying, monetising and acting on risks associated with ecosystem services on your whole territory
  • Conducting an ecosystemic analysis of the economic activities on your territory, in combination with all challenges at stake
  • Reducing the risks associated with security of supply
  • Federating, raising awareness, providing training…

Methodologies

Pour les missions « Biens et services écosystémiques », Factor-X s’appuie sur :

  • ESR© (Ecosystem Service Review) and CEV © (Corporate Ecosystem Valuation) methodologies, which allow to diagnose your level of dependency toward ecosystems. These methodologies, developed by the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, comprise the identification of interactions of ecosystem goods and services with your organisation and the quantification of the impact of your activities on the environment
  • Geographical information system for map release during the diagnose stage and for cartography modelling purposes.
  • A multi-scope approach along the value chain, leading to in-depth analysis of existing environmental interactions between sectors, enterprises or other stakeholders.
  • Additional expertise with our partners (research institutes, universities…) and within Factor-X itself with greenhouse gases and water resources consultants.