Klere Ltd

The Klere Steer on a sustainable Christmas #2: We previously ran some numbers on your Christmas lunch, and now turn our attention to the trees – assuming between 6-8 million trees are sold each Christmas, the Klere #NatureImpactMetric estimates a UK national impact of some 14,000 biodiversity units – this is the metric’s measure of the suppressed biodiversity on the approximately 2,800 hectares harvested annually. This is very substantial – similar to a large multinational company. On a household basis, one tree has about the same footprint as a typical individual Christmas lunch – so for a family of four, lunch is in fact about four times the impact of the tree. It’s easy to feel the impression of how much ‘nature’ you have brought into your home when you look at the tree: to realise the impact of what is on your dinner plate is four times greater, adds a new perspective. And this then can help us think about where we might reduce our impact – something for a New Year Resolution possibly. More detail on the underlying calculations is at https://lnkd.in/eCREdJxi #biodiversityfootprint #natureimpactmetric #scope3 #sustainability

Klere is always on the lookout for additional benefits of #biochar. A recent study https://lnkd.in/ewgnVrxj shows the benefit of integrating #biochar with friendly bacteria which helps soil improvement in pesticide-damaged areas – another co-benefit in the #biochar story. #sustainability #scope3 #biodiversityfootprint #naturemetric

We were delighted to present our #NatureImpactMetric at the Nature Data for Institutional Investors conference. Data gathering across the audience revealed the disconnect between organisations that measure their impact (none) and ones which want to invest in nature (basically all) – the disconnect #NatureImpactMetric helps to overcome. #biodiversityfootprint #scope3 #supplychainimpact

Klere is delighted to be presenting the Nature Impact Metric at the #NatureDataforInstitutionalInvestors conference on Wednesday. Klere’s metric takes a fresh approach to measuring corporate impact in nature and biodiversity, giving companies a baseline from which to start constructing a mitigation strategy. Combining habitat change data and expenditure input-output tables, Klere gives clients a complete picture of impact across Scopes 1 2 and 3 across the entire supply chain. In the spirit of Christmas Klere has compared a typical office meal-deal lunch with a typical Christmas lunch, which comes in at over five times the impact – the results provide users with the information needed to make decisions should they want to reduce their impact – no other metric reaches this level of detail! #sustainability #biodiversityfootprint #scope3

Klere is delighted to be presenting the Nature Impact Metric at the #NatureDataforInstitutionalInvestors conference on Wednesday. Klere’s metric takes a fresh approach to measuring corporate impact in nature and biodiversity, giving companies a baseline from which to start constructing a mitigation strategy. Combining habitat change data and expenditure input-output tables, Klere gives clients a complete picture of impact across Scopes 1 2 and 3 across the entire supply chain. In the spirit of Christmas Klere has compared a typical office meal-deal lunch with a typical Christmas lunch, which comes in at over five times the impact – the results provide users with the information needed to make decisions should they want to reduce their impact – no other metric reaches this level of detail! #sustainability #biodiversityfootprint #scope3

Klere is pleased to collaborate with Shropshire Council in advocating to Defra for necessary regulatory and definitional updates to facilitate the expansion of local authority pyrolysis projects. As part of this effort, we are looking to co-author a letter to the Secretary of State for DEFRA to highlight and request action on these critical issues. https://https://lnkd.in/eHd7bTze

One takeaway from #TheConduit’s Green Economy Forum: Financing the Green Transition was the pressures faced by SMEs in carbon reporting. Customers are demanding data on embodied carbon in what they buy. Klere’s spend-based analysis solves the problem, able to handle large and complex supply chain data without putting a burden on the business. Our analytics also provide business with their biodiversity footprint: our Nature Impact Metric gives the numbers the business needs to see where its impact on nature is occurring. #sustainability #Scope3 #biodiversityfootprint

The potential benefits of using biochar in asphalt extend beyond the impressive CO2 capture capability you mention Dan. Research is under way to validate other properties including increased strength and durability, better water adsorption for reducing flood risk, thermal absorbing properties and noise reducing properties. As the UK supply of biochar improves, we hope to see biochar featuring regularly on the route to net zero roads and beyond!

Nature and Carbon data analysis Klere been providing carbon and nature impact data for clients with our expenditure-based metrics which are particularly strong across Scope 3 and the wider supply chain. Where data is difficult to gather – suppliers often don’t know their own embodied carbon – our methodology is an effective and agile solution with results closely aligned to activity based data, but requiring much less resource. Coupled with our nature impact data, expressed in DEFRA Biodiversity Units, clients receive a comprehensive view of business impacts. The two results side-by-side add insight into where to focus mitigation. In the example below, carbon emissions total 263 tCO2e and nature impact 5.8 BUs (DEFRA Biodiversity Units). In this case the difference between fuel impact is striking - 31% of CO2e but only 8% of BU - that’s where to start to reduce emissions, but the supply chain is the area of focus for nature impact reduction. Data visualization via the Klere platform:

The Biodiversity Footprint of a Full English vs Continental Breakfast If you cook on gas, the carbon cost of your breakfast is easy enough to calculate, and so in fact are the “Scope 3” ingredients – but what about the “nature” cost? Your eggs, bacon and toast mostly come off low biodiversity land: there is a “nature cost” as well as a carbon cost. Klere is pioneering a biodiversity footprint metric, providing genuine “nature impact” comparability between products. Our unique methodology gives you the impact of each ingredient of your breakfast, so if you want to reduce your impact, you can make an informed choice – is it the beans or the bacon that should go? In our analysis, the ingredients of a Full English weigh in at 931 gms, 2.4 times a typical Continental (left column), and have a nature impact 2.5 times greater (right column). You are only getting 50% more calories, or, put another way, the Continental gets you 1.6 times the calories for the same nature cost. Sadly for your local greasy spoon, it looks as though the Continental wins out – although nutritionists would advise you to go with protein for a longer lasting effect than the higher sugar alternative. We will model that another time. You might say we have simply spent a lot of time putting numbers on what is intuitively obvious – but why this matters is that we provide the quantum. You can gauge the impact of changing some of the ingredients (supply chain) rather than others: cut out the meat and you reduce impact by 20%; cut out the meat and one egg and you are down 33%. You can make informed choices. In a future blog we will be showing what this means on a national scale and how companies can use the methodology (which is underpinned by Natural England’s habitat classification and the UK’s DEFRA Metric) across their supply chain. If you would like to more about the detailed numbers behind our analysis, how Klere can help you calculate your nature impact, please email us on office@klere.uk. #biodiversity #biodiversityfootprint #natureimpact #supplychainimpact