Think Nature Launches SBTi-FLAG Assessment Service Integrating Natural Capital Big Data and Satellite Monitoring
Think Nature Inc. has developed and launched an SBTi-FLAG assessment system that integrates natural capital big data and satellite monitoring. This service enables companies in forest, land, and agriculture-dependent sectors to accurately quantify upstream supply chain GHG emissions, accelerating climate change countermeasures.
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Think Nature Inc. (Headquarters: Urasoe City, Okinawa Prefecture; Representative Director CEO: Yasuhiro Kubota; Director President COO: Yosuke Masuda; hereinafter "the Company") has developed an "SBTi-FLAG Assessment System" that corresponds to the "SBTi-FLAG" greenhouse gas (GHG) emission accounting standard for industrial sectors dependent on forests, land, and agriculture. This system leverages the Company's proprietary nature-related big data and spatio-temporal analysis technology, and its services are now being offered to relevant companies.
Background
As climate change countermeasures accelerate, the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) has published "SBTi-FLAG," which mandates the accounting and reduction of GHG emissions related to forests, land, and agriculture (FLAG). Companies whose FLAG-related GHG emissions exceed 20% of their total emissions are required to set individual targets. However, in evaluating FLAG-derived GHG emissions from corporate activities, it is common for companies to lack sufficient traceability of raw materials such as timber and agricultural products that they depend on for their business. Despite these opaque traceability constraints, companies are required to calculate GHG emissions from land-use change in raw material procurement, retroactively over a long period. In practice, the difficulty of this calculation has been a major barrier to quantifying Scope 3 impacts and implementing reduction actions.
SBTi-FLAG Assessment System Integrating Natural Capital Big Data and Satellite Monitoring
To solve the challenges described above, the Company has developed a system that quantifies GHG emissions derived from forests, land, and agriculture worldwide at high resolution. This system integrates natural capital big data, which visualizes the production areas of all commodities dependent on forests, land, and agriculture at high resolution, with satellite monitoring analysis methods.
This system enables the identification of "land-use change history (LUC) over the past 20 years" and "region-specific emission factors" in the upstream supply chain, which were conventionally difficult to ascertain. This scientific approach supports the best-effort visualization of Scope 3 impacts in corporate activities and information disclosure such as SBTi-FLAG compliance, while simultaneously promoting the effectiveness of climate change responses in business.
About Think Nature Inc.
https://think-nature.jp/
The Company is a nature-positive startup that applies knowledge from basic sciences such as biogeography and macroecology, and applied sciences such as biodiversity conservation and systematic conservation planning, within a business context.
Our vision is to "realize a world where investment in natural capital is valued and leads to a prosperous society." We aim to visualize the "value of nature" through data technology and create a state where decisions can be made based on "visualized nature information" in the activities of companies, finance, government, and citizens.
Our strength lies in the highest level of data analysis integrating big data derived from terrestrial and marine fieldwork observations and satellite observations (high-resolution visualization maps of Earth's biodiversity), socio-economic information (logistics statistics, input-output tables, stock and futures trading information, geopolitical risks, etc.), and the provision of business intelligence to adapt to the global environmental crisis.
Our business portfolio is multifaceted, offering services such as IR disclosure support for companies (TCFD, TNFD, and SBT compliance) and natural capital management support, harmonious implementation support for carbon neutrality and nature positivity, climate and nature due diligence for institutional investors and financial institutions, nature DX support based on local government natural capital visualization systems, and biodiversity mainstreaming (education and outreach) for citizens through a visible creature app. We aim for business growth with an integrated strategy that "simultaneously promotes corporate activities, finance, systems, and culture, starting from science and technology."
Background
As climate change countermeasures accelerate, the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) has published "SBTi-FLAG," which mandates the accounting and reduction of GHG emissions related to forests, land, and agriculture (FLAG). Companies whose FLAG-related GHG emissions exceed 20% of their total emissions are required to set individual targets. However, in evaluating FLAG-derived GHG emissions from corporate activities, it is common for companies to lack sufficient traceability of raw materials such as timber and agricultural products that they depend on for their business. Despite these opaque traceability constraints, companies are required to calculate GHG emissions from land-use change in raw material procurement, retroactively over a long period. In practice, the difficulty of this calculation has been a major barrier to quantifying Scope 3 impacts and implementing reduction actions.
SBTi-FLAG Assessment System Integrating Natural Capital Big Data and Satellite Monitoring
To solve the challenges described above, the Company has developed a system that quantifies GHG emissions derived from forests, land, and agriculture worldwide at high resolution. This system integrates natural capital big data, which visualizes the production areas of all commodities dependent on forests, land, and agriculture at high resolution, with satellite monitoring analysis methods.
This system enables the identification of "land-use change history (LUC) over the past 20 years" and "region-specific emission factors" in the upstream supply chain, which were conventionally difficult to ascertain. This scientific approach supports the best-effort visualization of Scope 3 impacts in corporate activities and information disclosure such as SBTi-FLAG compliance, while simultaneously promoting the effectiveness of climate change responses in business.
About Think Nature Inc.
https://think-nature.jp/
The Company is a nature-positive startup that applies knowledge from basic sciences such as biogeography and macroecology, and applied sciences such as biodiversity conservation and systematic conservation planning, within a business context.
Our vision is to "realize a world where investment in natural capital is valued and leads to a prosperous society." We aim to visualize the "value of nature" through data technology and create a state where decisions can be made based on "visualized nature information" in the activities of companies, finance, government, and citizens.
Our strength lies in the highest level of data analysis integrating big data derived from terrestrial and marine fieldwork observations and satellite observations (high-resolution visualization maps of Earth's biodiversity), socio-economic information (logistics statistics, input-output tables, stock and futures trading information, geopolitical risks, etc.), and the provision of business intelligence to adapt to the global environmental crisis.
Our business portfolio is multifaceted, offering services such as IR disclosure support for companies (TCFD, TNFD, and SBT compliance) and natural capital management support, harmonious implementation support for carbon neutrality and nature positivity, climate and nature due diligence for institutional investors and financial institutions, nature DX support based on local government natural capital visualization systems, and biodiversity mainstreaming (education and outreach) for citizens through a visible creature app. We aim for business growth with an integrated strategy that "simultaneously promotes corporate activities, finance, systems, and culture, starting from science and technology."