In this series our Indo-Pacific experts navigate the complexities of safeguarding our present and fortifying our future in these uncertain times.
Our focus is on delivering expert analyses and insights under the national security umbrella, to help you: "Be Ready for Today. Prepared for Tomorrow." This series is crafted for a discerning audience, including defence professionals, policymakers, academics, technology experts , logistics and supply chain managers, public health officials, and food and agribusiness purveyors.
It's designed for those who seek to stay ahead of the curve in understanding and implementing the cutting-edge strategies and technologies that define global security today and shape its evolution tomorrow.
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In this series our Indo-Pacific experts navigate the complexities of safeguarding our present and fortifying our future in these uncertain times.
Our focus is on delivering expert analyses and insights under the national security umbrella, to help you: "Be Ready for Today. Prepared for Tomorrow." This series is crafted for a discerning audience, including defence professionals, policymakers, academics, technology experts , logistics and supply chain managers, public health officials, and food and agribusiness purveyors.
It's designed for those who seek to stay ahead of the curve in understanding and implementing the cutting-edge strategies and technologies that define global security today and shape its evolution tomorrow.
The “Vaxa Bureau - Intelligence; Optimised Podcast” is a part of the Vaxa Grow Series and brought to you by the Vaxa Bureau team.
#43 Nature on the Balance Sheet: Risk, Return and Responsibility | Tony O'Grady
Intelligence; Optimised Podcast
35 minutes
3 months ago
#43 Nature on the Balance Sheet: Risk, Return and Responsibility | Tony O'Grady
How natural capital accounting lets CFOs price ecosystem risk, secure Indo-Pacific supply chains and find new value.
Nature underpins every tonne shipped, meal served and unit of power generated across the Indo-Pacific - yet its true worth still hides off the books.
In this episode of Intelligence Optimised Podcasts, CSIRO’s Dr Tony O’Grady joins host Todd Crowley to unpack natural capital accounting: a rigorous method that treats forests, water and soils as real assets alongside plant, property and equipment.
Key points for finance and risk leaders: ✔️ Map ecosystem dependencies in supply chains - why fertiliser phosphorus or coastal mangroves are as material as diesel prices. ✔️ Use TNFD-aligned metrics to convert ecosystem services into dollars, then slot them into balance-sheets, cash-flow models and board packs. ✔️ See how companies like Forico, BHP and Kering publish environmental profit-and-loss statements and what that does to cost of capital. ✔️ Understand disclosure momentum - TNFD, TCFD and IFRS - and why waiting invites higher finance costs and shareholder activism. ✔️ Spot the geopolitical edge: unpriced degradation fuels migration, food insecurity and defence flashpoints from Nauru to the South China Sea.
Strategic takeaways ✔️ Early movers gain cheaper capital, steadier inputs and brand trust while competitors scramble under new compliance. ✔️ The board, not the sustainability team, must own nature risk; CFOs already have the valuation tools. ✔️ Reliable data are emerging - CSIRO’s Natural Capital Handbook and spatial datasets make entry affordable.
For defence planners, agribusiness exporters and infrastructure owners, the signal is clear: price nature now or pay later.
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Intelligence; Optimised Podcast
In this series our Indo-Pacific experts navigate the complexities of safeguarding our present and fortifying our future in these uncertain times.
Our focus is on delivering expert analyses and insights under the national security umbrella, to help you: "Be Ready for Today. Prepared for Tomorrow." This series is crafted for a discerning audience, including defence professionals, policymakers, academics, technology experts , logistics and supply chain managers, public health officials, and food and agribusiness purveyors.
It's designed for those who seek to stay ahead of the curve in understanding and implementing the cutting-edge strategies and technologies that define global security today and shape its evolution tomorrow.
The “Vaxa Bureau - Intelligence; Optimised Podcast” is a part of the Vaxa Grow Series and brought to you by the Vaxa Bureau team.
