Our Services

It’s more important than ever for organizations to take action to deliver a better world. We’re here to partner with you at every stage, from concept to design and delivery.

Our Strategy

The goal of our Sustainable Legacies strategy is straightforward: to ensure that the way we run our business, and the work we do in partnership with our clients, leaves a positive, lasting impact for communities and our planet.

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Originally published in May 2023

Nature positive solutions

We empower clients to harness nature’s benefits through innovative, solutions that help people and nature to thrive.

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55%

of the world’s GDP is highly dependent on nature*. To halt ecosystem and species loss, nature investment must reach $700bn per year. We help you understand your organization's impacts and dependencies on nature and advise how to leverage your assets and value chain for positive nature outcomes.

*PwC, 2022

Service in a nutshell

We take a collaborative approach to deliver nature-positive outcomes, informed by decades of global expertise in ecology, environment and design to create a more resilient, biodiverse and sustainable world.

What we do

Nature advisory

Identifying, prioritizing and integrating nature-related actions and approaches into mainstream business processes through specific metrics and targets. We team with clients to help undertake complex disclosures (e.g., TNFD, SBTN).

Nature-based Solutions (NbS)

Solving complex problems such as climate hazards and impacts, leveraging or enhancing natural assets to create resilience, while providing essential benefits to communities, such as flood attenuation and carbon sequestration. Our track record includes designing and implementing wildlife crossings, habitat restoration programs, regenerative remediation solutions, flood risk reduction schemes, together with urban schemes like green storm water infrastructure.

Restoration and ecosystem valuation

Assisting with biodiversity baselining, natural capital accounting, monitoring and evaluation, using traditional field techniques and modern technology, such as eDNA, bioacoustics, remote sensing and artificial intelligence. We advise on data collection targeting, balancing the right effort alongside cost and deploying nature tech as appropriate. Restoration and ecosystem valuation services can be applied to all nature activities.

Nature markets

Investing in nature conservation and restoration to meet financial goals, with markets for terrestrial and blue carbon, ecosystem services, or regulated and voluntary biodiversity markets. Navigating nature markets with our global expertise in programs like biodiversity net gain (U.K.) and mitigation banking (U.S.). We're familiar with voluntary markets like the Natural Capital Initiative’s and hold membership of organizations like the Biodiversity Credit Alliance. Helping integrate nature positive initiatives into financial systems and advising on and developing restoration projects that could be used to generate credits.

Areas of expertise:
  • Corporate nature disclosures and target setting (CSRD, TNFD & SBTN)
  • Planning for biodiversity impacts: portfolio & site-level assessments
  • Nature based solutions to climate vulnerability
  • Ecological restoration
  • Due diligence and support for development of projects for carbon and biodiversity markets
  • Nature-positive land estate management
  • Ecosystem evaluation and natural capital assessment and accounting
  • Regenerative remediation
  • Nature tech and digital tools
AECOM’s Biodiversity Statement:

We recognize that biological diversity and healthy natural ecosystems are fundamental to human well-being and economic prosperity for all people — and will prove crucial in addressing climate change and environmental challenges. Our Biodiversity Statement presents our commitment to reversing biodiversity loss by 2030 in accordance with the Global Biodiversity Framework. From supporting our clients in achieving nature-positive outcomes to partnering with organizations to drive biodiversity recovery, the Statement outlines numerous actions that will guide our work as we strive to strengthen ecosystems globally.

Nature-based solutions in action

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