About the Dashboard

EU economies depend on ecosystem services like flood and fire protection, fertile soils, and clean water.

Until now, these dependencies have been hidden in complex models or scattered reports. The Dashboard makes them visible, measurable, and actionable, helping regulators, central banks, policymakers, and civil society to make informed decisions.

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 101182455

Funded by the European Union

Who built the Dashboard?

Global Canopy

Global Canopy is a data-driven not for profit that targets the market forces destroying nature by promoting transparency and accountability. Global Canopy provides innovative open-access data, metrics and insights to leading companies, financial institutions, governments and campaigning organisations worldwide, to help them make better decisions about nature, forests and people.

EU Horizon Europe

This project is funded by the EU Horizon Nature‑3B programme, supporting innovation that helps Europe meet its climate and biodiversity commitments. The funding ensures the Dashboard is developed as a public good, open to all.

Partners

Developed in partnership with leading research and policy institutions including UNEP-WCMC and UNEP FI (Global Canopy's ENCORE partners), IIASA, and the London School of Economics. Their expertise in data, ecosystems, and finance ensures the Dashboard's credibility and robustness.

Project team

The Dashboard builds on the ENCORE knowledge base

The Dashboard links ENCORE dependency ratings with global economic flows from EXIOBASE to quantify country- and sector-level exposure. By calculating dependencies across the entire supply chain, the Dashboard reveals a country's total reliance on nature in euros, highlighting the risks to both domestic production and imports.

Explore methodology
Map Supply Chain Dependencies

We use ENCORE and EXIOBASE to trace a sector's total upstream reliance on nature from both domestic and foreign supply chains.

Quantify Economic Exposure

Using EXIOBASE, we quantify the economic value, in Euros, across different parts of the supply chain. We break down a country's economic activity by origin (domestic vs foreign) and destination (domestic consumption vs exports) to identify key areas of exposures.

Derive Key Metrics

Economic supply chain data and dependency ratings are combined to calculate the monetary value exposed to financial risk from nature degradation at the sector, country and EU level across domestic production and imports.

Regulators can’t act on what they can’t see.
Elena Almeida – CETEX

Project Goals

Acknowledgments

Collaborators

The ENCORE Insights: Country Dashboard was co‑developed with leading institutions including the London School of Economics (LSE Grantham Institute), UNEP‑WCMC, and IIASA. Their expertise in ecosystems, data modelling, and financial systems helped ensure that the indicators are robust, policy‑relevant, and internationally credible. These collaborations ground the platform in scientific evidence and regulatory alignment.

Sponsors

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme (Nature‑3B). EU support makes it possible to deliver the Dashboard as a public good: openly accessible, transparent, and aligned with Europe’s sustainability commitments.

Data Sources

All indicators are built from peer‑reviewed or institutional datasets including EXIOBASE and ENCORE. These sources provide the national accounts, supply‑chain flows, and ecosystem service dependencies that underpin the Dashboard. Each dataset is fully cited, documented, and available under open licences wherever possible.