The message from COP17 is clear: treating climate change and biodiversity loss as separate business risks is no longer defensible. As corporate sustainability teams continue to operate in disconnected silos, their supply chains remain dangerously exposed to compounding environmental threats. An award-winning analytics firm is now stepping in to show that nature risk is not a niche ESG checkbox—it is a core financial concern.
Award-winning nature analytics firm to unite climate and nature analytics at COP17 biodiversity conference
You cannot secure a business against climate change while ignoring the degradation of ecosystems that influence it.”— Rebecca Stern, Chief Science Officer, Dunya Analytics
While global delegates gather in Yerevan for the COP17 biodiversity conference, corporate sustainability efforts remain hampered by the persistent habit of managing climate and nature risks in isolation. When these interconnected environmental crises are treated as separate financial threats, the business rationale for taking action weakens, and corporate supply chains are left with significant exposure.
Dunya Analytics, an award-winning enterprise risk platform, is now pushing global corporations to move past reactive compliance and start treating nature risk as a fundamental financial risk—not a secondary consideration.
"Many corporations understand they need to act to halt and reverse biodiversity loss, but they treat it as an isolated ESG metric," says Dr. Rebecca Stern, Chief Sustainability Officer at Dunya Analytics.
"By keeping climate data in one bucket and ecological data in another, businesses miss the compound physical and transition risks threatening their business operations. You cannot secure a business against climate change while ignoring the degradation of ecosystems that influence it."
To bridge the gap between high-level policy goals and commercial reality, Dunya Analytics will demonstrate how to unify these frameworks across a series of practical, data-driven sessions at COP17. Rather than simply debating policy, the firm positions itself as a critical enablement engine—providing the concrete software and data tools corporations need to actively meet the Global Biodiversity Framework’s Target 15 requirements to monitor, assess and transparently disclose biodiversity dependencies.
Dunya Analytics will co-host and feature in key sessions during the summit to give leaders a hands-on blueprint to transition from assessment to financial strategy:
Session 1: Hands-On Integrated Nature and Climate Risk: Assess, Prioritize, Act
Hosted in collaboration with the UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), this interactive workshop guides participants through real climate and nature risk assessment data. Attendees will build a clear decision framework to connect local ecological exposure directly to corporate financial impacts.
Session 2: Connecting the Dots Between Biodiversity Data and Corporate Transition Risk
Presented as part of the official "Data to Action Pavilion"– convened by GBIF, GEO BON, GEO, the Smithsonian Institution, and the University of Zurich – this session is co-organized with IBAT, the world's most authoritative biodiversity data provider. The joint presentation maps out how to translate complex ecological datasets into acting business decisions. Using the Dunya Analytics platform with integrated IBAT data, presenters will conduct a live, location-specific risk assessment to show how TNFD criteria for sensitive locations (such as protected areas and declining ecosystem integrity) translate directly into tangible regulatory exposure and shifting market expectations.
Session 3: Nature intelligence for the world’s 300 million SMEs: Profiling solutions
Top solutions identified in the Nature Intelligence for Business Grand Challenge will showcase real deployment lessons analysing nature risk and resilience along supply chains. As a Grand Challenge winner, Dunya Analytics will be featured in the session.
By demystifying complex global environmental datasets and converting them into actionable business intelligence, Dunya Analytics is giving corporate leaders the tools and confidence to shield their bottom lines while protecting the planet.
To learn more about Dunya Analytics or to schedule a meeting at COP17 in Yerevan, visit dunya-analytics.com.
About Dunya Analytics
Dunya Analytics is an award-winning enterprise-risk platform that empowers businesses to navigate the regenerative economy confidently by transforming complex environmental data into strategic, actionable intelligence.
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Why it matters: As regulators and investors increasingly demand integrated environmental disclosures, the siloed approach to climate and nature risk is becoming a liability. Companies that fail to connect these datasets may face unexpected regulatory exposure and market pressure, while those that adopt unified tools can better protect their supply chains and bottom lines.
