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How companies manage the impacts and risks related to issues of biodiversity loss, deforestation and land use within their own operations and/or their supply chains, is captured through Sustainalytics’ ESG Risk Rating. Within the Risk Rating framework, Sustainalytics assesses two separate material ESG issues (MEI): ‘Land Use and Biodiversity’, speaking to the issue in relation to a company’s own operations, and ‘Land Use and Biodiversity – Supply Chain’, focusing on a company’s supply chain practices.