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Background
A global industrial manufacturing company operates an extensive portfolio of hundreds of production facilities worldwide. With the introduction of the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) and growing stakeholder expectations around biodiversity protection, the company needed a scalable solution to assess and report on the environmental impact of its manufacturing operations.
Measuring biodiversity impact at scale across a global manufacturing footprint
Large-scale manufacturers face mounting pressure to demonstrate responsible environmental stewardship across their operations:
- New regulatory requirements: CSRD mandates require companies to identify and monitor their impact on nearby protected areas and biodiversity, creating urgent needs for comprehensive environmental data across all facilities.
- Scale and cost barriers: With over 100 manufacturing sites distributed globally, traditional on-ground biodiversity assessments would be prohibitively expensive and time-consuming, potentially costing millions while providing only snapshot data.
- Standardization challenges: Without a unified methodology, comparing biodiversity impacts across different regions and facility types becomes nearly impossible, making meaningful reporting and decision-making difficult.
- Data accessibility gaps: Companies lack continuous, historical data to track trends over time and demonstrate improvement in biodiversity outcomes.
- Resource constraints: Environmental and sustainability teams need automated, scalable solutions that don't require manual data collection at each site.
Automated biodiversity monitoring across a global manufacturing network
The Landbanking Group deployed its platform to provide standardized biodiversity monitoring across all manufacturing sites using satellite data and AI technology:
- Protected areas assessment: Automated identification and mapping of protected areas within a 5km radius of each facility, including distance calculations and status classifications.
- Species monitoring: Aggregated red-listed species observations from public databases, providing periodic updates on threatened and endangered species presence near manufacturing operations.
- Land-use change tracking: Time-series analysis of land-use patterns over 5 years, enabling the company to understand how surrounding landscapes have evolved and identify potential biodiversity risks.
- Standardized reporting framework: Annual reports generated for each site plus global summary dashboards, delivering consistent metrics that support CSRD compliance and internal decision-making.
- Scalable technology platform: Fully automated solution combining remote sensing, AI modeling, and reference datasets validated by scientific partners, enabling cost-effective monitoring at €380 per site annually.
CSRD-ready biodiversity data across the entire manufacturing network
The company achieved comprehensive biodiversity visibility across its global operations:
- Regulatory compliance achieved: Gained CSRD-ready data documenting the company's impact on protected areas and biodiversity across all manufacturing sites, with standardized annual reporting.
- Cost-effective scalability: Implemented automated monitoring at a fraction of traditional assessment costs, making continuous biodiversity tracking financially viable across the entire facility portfolio.
- Historical insights: Accessed 5 years of retrospective data to establish baselines, identify trends, and demonstrate year-over-year changes in biodiversity metrics around facilities.
- Informed decision-making: Site-specific and aggregated data enable leadership to prioritize interventions, assess facility-level risks, and communicate environmental performance to stakeholders.
- Foundation for continuous improvement: Established an ongoing monitoring system that supports long-term biodiversity strategy and enables the company to track progress toward nature-positive goals.
