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PO356: The Biodiversity Footprint Impact from Sites (BFIS) tool
Madeline Ward, Offshore Wind Consultant
Abstract
The Biodiversity Footprint Impact from Sites (BFIS) tool, developed by The Biodiversity Consultancy in collaboration with TotalEnergies, offers a pragmatic and scalable approach to measuring biodiversity impacts across site-based energy operations. Designed to meet the growing demand for corporate-level biodiversity accountability, BFIS enables companies to screen, prioritise, and report biodiversity risks and opportunities across diverse geographies and operational types. The tool integrates spatial data, ecological significance, and operational characteristics to generate site-level and aggregated biodiversity footprint indicators. BFIS has been piloted across hundreds of sites globally, including wind farms, solar farms, refineries, and biogas plants, and is aligned with international frameworks, such as The Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), European Sustainability Reporting Standard E4, and the Science Based Targets Network. BFIS uses customised models to estimate land use extent and condition, and combines these with biodiversity significance scores to categorise sites by risk. Validation steps ensure accuracy through company knowledge and data deep dives. The tool supports decision-making by identifying high-risk sites and guiding mitigation, monitoring, and reporting actions. BFIS also integrates with species data to assess species sensitivity to infrastructure impacts, such as bird and bat collision risk scorings. This abstract will present the BFIS methodology, its application across TotalEnergies’ portfolio as an example, and its role in shaping corporate biodiversity strategies. It will also explore future directions, including integration with life cycle assessment (LCA) data and potential handover models for broader industry adoption.
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