Environmental performance

Biodiversity

We work with our customers and the agri-food value chain to maintain and/or enhance the productivity of land.

Biodiversity refers to the variety of all living things and their interactions with each other and their environment to create a self-balancing ecosystem. Agriculture is dependent on healthy ecosystems to sustain the global food supply. The greater the biodiversity of an ecosystem, the greater the stability and resilience of that system.

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Our progress

Highlights

We developed an internal process to assess nature-related dependencies, impacts, risks and opportunities using guidance from the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (“TNFD”) framework. In 2024, we applied this process to our upstream fertilizer production footprint.

Our approach

Our biodiversity-related activities fall into four areas:

Remediation, reclamation, and restoration, which includes the management of materials generated by mining and mineral processing, land reclamation and revegetation programs, general clean-up activities aimed at returning the areas to environmentally acceptable conditions and post-closure care and maintenance.
Our agronomic services help to restore degraded agricultural lands through partnerships in our operating regions and aim to enhance productivity on current agricultural lands.
Advancing management practices through our offered agronomic services can help foster biodiversity outcomes such as healthier soil and water systems, to maintain and enhance the productivity of the land. Read more in Farm Management Solutions .
Conservation can help reduce further biodiversity loss. We support land and habitat conservation programs with partners such as Ducks Unlimited Canada.

Read more about our biodiversity activities in our Sustainability Report.

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Stories

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To learn more about the Conservation Exchange Pilot and Nutrien’s role in it, we interviewed Mike Nemeth, Senior Advisor, Agricultural and Environmental Sustainability at Nutrien.

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