Biodiversity
under unprecedented pressure

A rapid and massive decline in biodiversity

Reducing your pressures on biodiversity first requires identifying your most impactful activities. Is it due to land-use change, pollution, climate change, or the overexploitation of water resources?

Conducting a biodiversity footprint assessment of your organization allows you to objectively measure your impacts and prioritize pressures across every link in your value chain: upstream (purchases, supply), direct operations (production sites and operational tools), and downstream (end-of-life of products and services).

This approach goes beyond climate-only concerns and protects you from potential negative effects on biodiversity induced by your climate strategy.

Major pressures, all human‑driven

According to IPBES, five major pressures, all linked to human activities, explain biodiversity loss.

Pressure #1: Land, sea, and air use change

Directly responsible for the loss or degradation of natural habitats, land, sea, and air use change is the leading cause of biodiversity loss. This pressure occurs, for example, through parking lots, industrial or tourist infrastructures, urbanization, agricultural activities, and marine energy development. All companies contribute to this pressure, either directly or through their value chain.

Pressure #2: Overexploitation of resources

Overfishing, poaching, overgrazing, deforestation, excessive water withdrawals: these practices exploit resources faster than they can regenerate. Resource overexploitation affects many economic activities, such as agribusiness (agriculture, livestock) or industrial production (water withdrawals).

Pressure #3: Climate change

Climate change alters temperature and precipitation patterns and increases the frequency of extreme events like droughts and floods. It affects habitats, life cycles, and survival conditions for many species. Companies contribute through their greenhouse gas emissions, measurable via a carbon footprint.

Pressure #4: Pollution

Pollution of air, soil, freshwater, and oceans (plastics, agricultural inputs, heavy metals…), as well as light and noise pollution, is a major driver of ecosystem degradation. Many economic activities contribute to these pollutions and must manage their emissions and discharges to ensure sustainability.

Pressure #5: Invasive alien species

International transport and trade facilitate the spread of non-native species that disrupt local ecosystems. A company’s logistics and imports can inadvertently contribute to this phenomenon.

Companies at the heart of biodiversity challenges

All these pressures are directly linked to production and consumption patterns. Companies, through their supply chains, operations, and products, both contribute to ecosystem pressures and depend on vital resources and services provided by these same ecosystems.

By contributing to biodiversity pressures, companies are exposed to transition risks as society shifts toward a nature-positive economy.

These central challenges now structure regulatory frameworks (CSRD, TNFD, SBTN, EUDR…) and influence access to sustainable finance.

Identifying and understanding your contributions to these pressures is the first step to:

Prioritizing your material issues
Assessing your impacts and dependencies
Building a credible biodiversity strategy

For companies, action is no longer optional: it is necessary to meet regulatory and societal expectations and to secure their own resilience.

How Blooming helps reduce your pressures on biodiversity

Blooming supports you to:

Diagnose and prioritize your impacts, dependencies, risks, and opportunities: biodiversity, carbon, and water footprints, life cycle assessment, double materiality.
Transform operational practices and business models by defining action plans and strategies to reduce pressures, contributing to the global Nature Positive target of the Kunming-Montreal Agreement.
Implement and monitor your action plans.

Ready to reduce your pressures on biodiversity?

With Blooming, identify your impacts, prioritize your issues, and move from assessment to concrete action.

Biodiversity under unprecedented pressure