Our first immersive Action Track workshop of 2026 was delivered by our new Business Programme Lead Caroline Cawley and BFBI Technical & Research Lead Dr Emer Ní Dhùill, supported by our Business Programme Advisor Dr Catherine Farrell, Asst Prof Nature & Business at Trinity College Dublin at the Deloitte Ireland HQ in Dublin on April 14.
The workshop, supported by Deloitte’s WorldClimate Team, covered how our Nature Strategy Accelerator Programme (NSAP) businesses would begin to assess nature-related dependencies, impacts, risks and opportunities (DIROs) as a step to building credible, future-proof, impact-focused nature strategies, that drive action for the benefit of biodiversity and nature. The NSAP is based on our global partners
Business For Nature‘s
ACT-D framework. The framework is a 4-part, iterative process to Assess, Commit, Transform and Disclose on your organisation’s relationship with nature.
In this opening workshop, we talked about scoping boundaries and identifying stakeholders, looking at a variety of examples from major organisations on how they are presenting the mapping of their value chains, and exchanging ideas on where the focus should be in a post-
Omnibus era. Our businesses explored the options for their sectors and their particular business model, as they work toward the key output of this Track – a
Double Materiality Assessment, by asking: “What is the extent of our value chain and who are the important voices in it?”
Caroline commented: “It’s a really exciting time to be working in the nature and sustainability space, as we support Irish businesses to start to understand how to map and measure their dependencies and impacts on nature.”
Thanks to our participating businesses including CIÉ Group’s Bus Éireann, Dublin Bus and Irish Rail, Dublin Airport Authority, Shannon Airport Group and Eirgrid for their diligent work with us and our supporters at Deloitte Ireland including Cáitlín Flanagan and Eimear Kelly, and Sarah Kelly from the National Biodiversity Data Centre, and the National Parks & Wildlife Service.
Find out more about our Nature Strategy Accelerator Programme HERE.
