For infrastructure & real asset funds

Nature risk is already
in your assets.

Quantify nature-related exposure across your infrastructure portfolio. From portfolio-wide screening to asset-level deep dives — identify fragilities before they surface.

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Capabilities

What Darwin does for your infrastructure fund

01

Screen your entire portfolio for nature exposure — with minimal data

Get a portfolio-wide picture of nature impacts, dependencies and risks across all your assets, even without complete operational data. Using asset type and geography as inputs, Darwin identifies which assets, sectors, and geographies carry the highest exposure, and where to focus your analytical effort first.

02

Go beyond the asset boundary — into the supply chain

For infrastructure, the largest share of nature impact sits upstream: in the cement, steel, copper, and materials that built the asset. Darwin translates bill of materials data into nature risk signals, identifying the supply chain hotspots that standard ESG tools miss. Most of your portfolio's nature footprint is invisible without it.

03

Integrate nature into due diligence — and turn it into portfolio data

Nature risk assessed at acquisition becomes a baseline you can track. Darwin enables asset-level analysis at due diligence — spatial overlays, water stress, biodiversity sensitivity, supply chain exposure — that feeds directly into your investment memo and your hold-period monitoring. Nature risk assessed three years into a hold is just a compliance cost.

04

Quantify financial risk tied to nature: permitting, CAPEX, and operations

Move beyond heatmaps. Darwin connects nature risk signals to the financial variables infrastructure teams manage — permitting timelines, CAPEX exposure, water-dependent availability, and transition risk from tightening regulations. Understand what biodiversity sensitivity near a site actually means for your return model.

05

Quantify avoided impacts with a credible baseline

For renewables and infrastructure funds with a green positioning, impact claims need to survive scrutiny. Darwin models avoided nature impacts by comparing your asset against a reference scenario — a fossil fuel baseline, a business-as-usual land use, a conventional construction approach. The result is a traceable, methodology-backed avoided impact figure that can anchor your LP narrative, green bond reporting, and impact fund positioning — without the greenwashing risk that comes from unsupported claims.

06

Comply with SFDR PAI, CSRD, EU Taxonomy DNSH, and Article 29 LEC

Aggregate asset-level assessments into fund-level disclosures. Darwin outputs are structured to align with SFDR PAI indicator 7, ESRS E4 double materiality, EU Taxonomy Do No Significant Harm criteria for biodiversity, and Article 29 LEC biodiversity strategy requirements — so you build the methodology once and report across all frameworks.

Why it matters

The case for acting now

>50% of portfolio impact is upstream

For infrastructure assets, the majority of nature impact sits in the supply chain — in the materials used to build the asset, not in its operations. Standard ESG assessments miss it entirely.

Nature risk is where you're not looking.

2026 BNG mandatory for UK NSIPs

Biodiversity Net Gain — already mandatory for major developments in England since February 2024 — is being extended to Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects from May 2026. Any UK greenfield asset entering the development pipeline now requires a quantified biodiversity baseline secured for 30 years.

Biodiversity is now a legal performance requirement.

~2/3 of major solar projects

In the US, 65% of major solar energy projects requiring environmental review have faced litigation — wind at 38%, transmission lines at 31%. Nature-related permitting risk is one of the most common causes of project delay and cancellation across the energy infrastructure sector.

Permitting risk is nature risk.

Quantify nature risk across your infrastructure portfolio.

From deal screening to exit-ready reporting — make nature a lever, not a liability, at every stage of the investment lifecycle.

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