Nature Risk Is Now a CFO Problem, ànd an Infrastructure Opportunity

Climate and nature risk are no longer just reporting topics, but creditworthiness, asset value, supply-chain continuity and capital allocation.

In this session, Kjell shows how CFOs are exposed to nature-related dependencies and how this affects their financial decisions. What happens when an agro company has only two years of secured water? How do water autonomy, land degradation, supplier concentration and ecosystem fragility affect bankability, insurance, capex, and asset valuation? How does C-Level treat this strategic risk, and get rewarded financially for it? And where do credits (carbon, biodiversity, nature or water) actually create value versus where accounting and existing valuation frameworks are the better tools?

The session focuses on practical financial framing: how nature risk enters the P&L, balance sheet, the investment committee and infrastructure finance. 

The core argument: nature risk is now a CFO problem, and solving it creates a new class of investable infrastructure in the form of water security, nature landscape infrastructure, resilient supply chains and productive natural assets.

Speaker : Kjell Clarysse, Program Director, Scale it Agro