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In a world increasingly shaped by climate risks, biodiversity loss, and resource scarcity, businesses are under pressure to rethink how they measure success. Beyond profit margins and quarterly growth, forward-looking companies are now asking: What is our impact on nature? And what is nature’s impact on us?

This shift marks the rise of natural capital valuation, which is a critical tool for understanding the true costs and dependencies businesses have on the environment.

What Is Natural Capital, and Why Does It Matter?

Natural capital refers to the world’s stocks of natural resources like forests, water, air, soil, and biodiversity, the ones that provide essential services to businesses and society. From clean water in manufacturing to healthy soils in agriculture, nature underpins every sector of the economy.

Yet, most business decisions today still treat nature as an externality: undervalued, unmeasured, and unmanaged. That’s starting to change.

Governments, investors, and consumers are now demanding more transparency on how businesses depend on and impact natural ecosystems. Frameworks like the Natural Capital Protocol, TNFD (Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures), and ESG reporting standards are becoming part of the new sustainability playbook.

Companies that understand how to assess, value, and integrate natural capital into their decision-making gain a powerful edge: they can anticipate risks, identify new opportunities, and lead the transition to a more sustainable economy.

A New Learning Opportunity: CPD-Certified Training on Natural Capital Valuation

To support this transformation, the Indonesia Business Council for Sustainable Development (IBCSD), in collaboration with Capitals Coalition, is offering a CPD-certified online course titled Natural Capital Valuation for Business Decision Making.

This 8-week course is tailored for professionals seeking hands-on knowledge of how to integrate natural capital into strategy, operations, and reporting.

What you’ll learn:

How to identify your business’s dependencies and impacts on nature
Tools to measure and value environmental impacts
How to use natural capital assessments to inform better decisions
Ways to apply the Natural Capital Protocol in real-world contexts

Whether you’re in sustainability, finance, strategy, or operations, this course will equip you with skills increasingly demanded by regulators, markets, and boards.

Course Curriculum

Module	Chapters
Module 1: Assess	Introduction and learning objectives? Natural capital Planetary and social boundaries? The case for Business Transformation? Risks and Opportunities?, Impacts & Dependencies? Objective setting?
Module 2: Assess	Stakeholder engagement? Assessment scope including value chain? Prioritization and materiality assessment Impact pathway, measurement and valuation? Key performance Indicators and dataset?
Module 3: Commit, Transform, Disclose	The High-Level Business Actions on Nature COMMIT: target setting?? TRANSFORM: communication and embedding natural capital in decisions? DISCLOSE: assurance, reporting and monitoring for ESG statements?

Why Now?

The world is moving fast. Nature-related regulations are already influencing how companies report and operate. Investors are asking tougher questions. And stakeholders are paying attention.

Training yourself and your team in natural capital valuation isn’t just a learning opportunity, but it’s also a strategic investment in future-proofing your business.