The energy transition is not only about producing energy in a cleaner way: it also implies better understanding the territory, anticipating environmental risks and acting responsibly where energy infrastructure operates.
With this idea, Naturgy has developed the Geographic Analysis Platform for proactive nature management, a tool that allows us to systematically evaluate how the group’s assets interact with the natural environment and integrate biodiversity into strategic decision-making.
An x-ray of the territory
The platform analyzes georeferenced information from more than 1,000 facilities and around 250,000 kilometers of networks spread across 10 countries, crossing location data, asset typology and environmental sensitivity of ecosystems. The system integrates variables such as the presence of protected spaces, the state of ecosystems, threatened species or the level of water stress, which allows obtaining a precise view of the environmental risks associated with each location.
With this information, Naturgy can identify the facilities with the greatest interaction with biodiversity, evaluate their impacts and prioritize prevention, mitigation and restoration actions aligned with international best practices.
Anticipate risks
One of the platform’s main values is its ability to anticipate nature-related risks before they occur. The analysis follows the LEAP methodology of the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD), a global framework that promotes integrating nature-related risks and opportunities into business strategy and reporting processes.
The platform allows the company to determine where more specific studies are necessary, guide environmental planning and ensure that biodiversity protection is incorporated from the initial phases of projects, thus reducing regulatory, operational and reputational risks.
In addition to reinforcing environmental management, the tool also improves the quality, coherence and traceability of the company’s non-financial reporting, by offering a homogeneous information base on biodiversity in all its geographies and businesses. This systematic approach, according to Naturgy, lays the foundations to move towards the economic valorization of biodiversity, identify associated budgets, improve the accounting of initiatives and, ultimately, monetize the impacts, risks and opportunities linked to nature.
In this way, biodiversity management ceases to be a set of isolated initiatives and becomes a strategic axis integrated into business management and energy transition planning.
The “Energy with Life” umbrella
The platform facilitates the analysis and management of the hundreds of biodiversity projects that are part of “Energy with life”, the program that brings together all Naturgy initiatives in this area. According to the company itself, Energy with Life combines mandatory and voluntary actions with the aim of avoiding, reducing, restoring or compensating for impacts on nature, while maximizing the environmental, social and territorial value of the actions. Its scope is global and applies to all the group’s activities and geographies.
For Naturgy, the initiative responds to the conviction that there can be no energy transition without a responsible relationship with nature. The commitment to innovation, data and knowledge of the territory allows the company to move from an operational approach to strategic management of biodiversity, aligned with international frameworks, in an increasingly demanding regulatory and environmental context.