As the focus on biodiversity grows in Denmark, Danish companies are raising their ambitions to reduce their global impacts on nature. A new case collection shows how five companies are working to reduce their impacts on nature, contribute to its restoration, and strengthen business resilience through supplier collaboration.

Every business depends on nature. However, for most companies, the greatest impacts on nature occur beyond their own operations – across their value chains, from raw material extraction and production to the use of resources and products. Addressing these impacts requires greater transparency, closer collaboration with suppliers and other partners, and new approaches to doing business.

But what does this look like in practice?

The new case collection, Sourcing for Resilience: Business Cases from Denmark on Nature, Resources, and Supplier Collaboration, explores how five Danish companies are turning ambition into action. As stated in the introduction, the collection aims “to inspire other companies to act on nature across their value chains.”

The five cases cover different industries, company sizes, and levels of maturity:

• atNorth is working with partners and local communities to develop a data centre campus that integrates nature restoration and surplus heat reuse.

• AYA&IDA is collaborating with manufacturers in China to increase the use of recycled stainless steel and strengthen supply chain transparency.

• Novo is working with its suppliers and farmer networks to scale regenerative agriculture and strengthen the resilience of its glucose supply.

• Ørsted is exploring the impacts on nature associated with mining and refining the materials needed for renewable energy infrastructure.

• STARK Group is partnering with suppliers to make reclaimed bricks more widely available, reducing demand for virgin raw materials.