A footprint says what your portfolio does to the environment. Climate & Nature risk looks the other way: what the environment could do to your portfolio, through the physical hazards facing the places your ingredients come from. It is one of the lenses on the dashboard.
Headline scores use today's climate, based on recent historical records. The Climate scenarios block shows the same products under SSP5-8.5 in 2050, the IPCC high-emissions scenario, as a conservative view of a world that does not decarbonise. The 2050 view sits alongside the headline rather than replacing it.
The portfolio risk score
A single percentage with a band: low, moderate, high or critical. It is the average of your per-product risk scores, and on the live dashboard each product counts equally, because products carry no production volumes outside reports. Where volumes are known (baselines, historicals, forecasts and the company risk lens), each product is weighted by its volume instead, so a hazard facing a product you sell in quantity counts for more than the same hazard on one you barely ship.
It is an average rather than a sum, so a larger portfolio does not look riskier simply because it holds more products.
The panel says how many products it covers. A product with no risk score is excluded rather than counted as zero, and the count is how you tell the difference.
Products by risk level
The distribution behind the headline: how many products sit in each band. A moderate portfolio average with eleven products in the high band is a different situation from one with none, and the average alone will not tell you.
Hazards
The score covers eight hazards: flood, drought, frost, wildfire and smoke, water stress, tropical cyclone, heat and soil degradation. Each is scored where your ingredients are actually sourced, which is why sourcing country matters to this number.
The largest single hazard is called out by name, because the response to frost exposure is not the response to water stress.
On the nature side, water stress, soil degradation and air quality (through wildfire smoke) are scored today. Deforestation (including EUDR screening), biodiversity intactness and ocean acidification are not yet assessed, and show as Not yet assessed. That is not the same as a low score.
Trend against baseline
The trend compares your frozen baseline snapshot against the same products at their latest risk scores, so what you are reading is genuine movement rather than the effect of adding products since.
Hazards scored on only one side show as no movement rather than a movement from zero. A hazard that was not scored at baseline has not gone from nothing to something, it has gone from unknown to known, and showing that as a jump would be wrong.
Where risk comes from
Risk scores are stored when a product is saved or recalculated, and read from those stored results rather than computed while you wait. A product without a score is a coverage gap, not a safe product: it has not been scored yet, most often because it has not been saved or recalculated since the risk lens was switched on.
The commodity view in particular needs a recalculation to populate, so if it looks emptier than the rest, that is why.
The full method
The Methodology page in the app has a Climate & Nature risk tab that sets out the full method: what each hazard measures and where its data comes from, how scores are combined, and the limitations to keep in mind.