The environment sector plays a critical role in protecting natural resources, tackling climate change, and supporting sustainable growth across Great Britain.
Environmental organisations – national agencies, local authorities, utilities, environmental consultancies, technology partners – all face increasing pressure to make informed, defensible decisions in a rapidly changing world.
Managing land, water, and biodiversity, delivering climate resilience, nature recovery, net zero ambitions – these challenges are also intensified by evolving regulation, growing public scrutiny, and the need to balance environmental protection with economic and social outcomes.
Ordnance Survey provides the geospatial foundation that underpins confident environmental decision‑making. Reliable, authoritative location data is fundamental to understanding environmental risk, change, and opportunity. Whether assessing flood and coastal risk, monitoring habitat and land‑use change, planning nature‑based solutions or supporting environmental impact assessments, you need a trusted, up‑to‑date view of the natural and built environment.
Our location data helps organisations model climate and environmental risk, understand how landscapes are changing, and plan interventions with greater accuracy and transparency.
By combining authoritative geography with advanced analytics and partner expertise, we support smarter policy, more resilient infrastructure and better environmental outcomes.
With our help, the environment sector can turn complex environmental challenges into actionable insight; supporting a more resilient, sustainable future for people, places, and the planet.
