Dansk Industri (DI), WWF, and Industriens Fond uncover best practices for company-driven biodiversity action to serve as use cases for Danish companies’ work in biodiversity.
The brief
Develop a business biodiversity framework, build a custom-made Excel-based interview platform to identify commonalities, assess biodiversity maturity, uncover best practices, and analyse the interview results through cluster and content analysis.
Our approach
The project was divided into two phases:
1) Framework and tool building for the data collection phase
2) Analysis of conducted interviews
In close collaboration with the project team, Nordic Sustainability designed and carried out a process to create a framework aimed at understanding biodiversity action within a business context. The framework included several dimensions, e.g., the difference between focusing on your own operations versus addressing wider value chain issues, reducing negative vs. amplifying positive impact, the importance of action, target-setting, reporting, and so on.
Following that, a dynamic Excel tool was developed to help facilitate interviews, capture key findings, and assess the maturity of the companies interviewed by the project group.
Finally, the interviews were analysed using cluster analysis complemented by qualitative insights to understand and contextualise the different maturity levels and perspectives among the interviewed companies.
Result
As part of the first project phase, a comprehensive framework and a ready-to-use interview tool were developed and delivered to the project team.
After the second phase, the project team was presented with an analysis of key learnings and common ways of thinking among the identified companies.
Nordic Sustainability has been a professionally skilled sparring partner and has helped ensure we asked the right questions, systematised data, and created evidence for the project's results. They have been good at applying their knowledge and proven methods in the field of sustainability to a more immature agenda such as biodiversity.”