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Advocating for nature: A guide for responsible policy engagement

Business for Nature
This guide is designed to help companies reap the benefits of responsible advocacy and respond to rising stakeholder expectations. It sets out the steps companies should take to align their nature advocacy with their nature ambition. This guide can be used by investors to better understand expectations being set for companies, and to also guide their own development of nature policies.
Research
11 January 2024

Business for Nature

Finance / Corporate Focused NGOs & Think Tanks
Business for Nature is a global coalition uniting over 100 business and conservation organisations, along with forward-thinking companies. It promotes credible corporate action and advocates for ambitious governmental policies to establish a nature-positive economy by 2030.
Organisation
3 research items

The BankTrack human rights benchmark reports

BankTrack
The BankTrack Human Rights Benchmark series evaluates commercial banks globally, with a global and regional focus including Latin America, Asia, and Africa. It assesses 50 of the world’s largest private sector commercial banks against the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, examining policy commitments, due diligence, reporting, and remedy processes to ensure compliance with human rights standards.
Benchmark/series

Aqueduct Country Risk Rating

World Resources Institute
This spatial tool shows countries and provinces' average exposure to six of the Aqueduct 3.0's water risk indicators: baseline water stress, riverine flood risk, and drought risk.
Online tool/database

Aqueduct Water Risk Atlas

World Resources Institute
Aqueduct's global water risk mapping tool helps companies, investors, governments, and other users understand where and how water risks and opportunities are emerging worldwide. The Atlas uses a robust, peer reviewed methodology and the best-available data to create high-resolution, customizable global maps of water risk.
Online tool/database

Natural Capital Measurement Catalogue Version 2

The Natural Capital Measurement Catalogue (NCMC) is an open resource for users to select metrics and methods for the measurement of natural capital assets, flows of services or benefits, and organisational impacts or dependencies on nature. The WCMC is designed to present natural capital accounting and assessment metrics that are consistent with national and international standards and frameworks such as the United Nations System of Economic-Environmental Accounting (SEEA), the Natural Capital Protocol and the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD).
Online tool/database

CDP Water Watch Impact Index

CDP
The CDP's water watch impact index tool makes a qualitative assessment of impact on freshwater resources at different stages of the value chain, based on independent and trusted academic, scientific and industry-recognized sources. Its focus on environmental impact distinguishes it from tools that measure business risks posed by water.
Online tool/database

TNFD Tool Catalogue

Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD)
Building on insights from the nature-related data catalyst, the TNFD has created a beta version of an online searchable Tools Catalogue, providing an overview of tools that organisations can use to apply to each phase of the LEAP approach. The catalogue will be continually updated.
Online tool/database

TESSA

This Toolkit for Ecosystem Service Site based Assessments (TESSA) provides practical guidance on how to identify which services may be significant at a site of interest, what data are needed to measure them, what methods or sources can be used to obtain the data and how to communicate results. It assesses and values ecosystem services, supporting natural capital accounting and investment decisions.
Online tool/database

Sustainability Policy Transparency Toolkit (SPOTT) 

SPOTT supports the finance sector and supply chain stakeholders to manage ESG risks through transparency assessments of soft commodity producers and traders. It helps evaluate ESG practices of companies, guiding responsible investment decisions.
Online tool/database

Trase

Global Canopy
TRASE maps forest risk supply chains linking consumer countries and traders with places of production. This allows for greater visibility of the countries, regions and companies that have higher rates of deforestation.
Online tool/database

Forest Declaration Dashboard

Forest Declaration Assessment
The Forest Declaration Dashboard is a monitoring tool that tracks global progress towards the 2030 goals of halting and reversing deforestation. It offers data and insights across themes such as forest conservation, sustainable development, finance, and governance, aiding stakeholders in assessing and enhancing forest-related initiatives.
Online tool/database

Circular Economy Policy Tracker

Chatham House's circulareconomy.earth is a platform that enables users to explore policy and trade dynamics related to the transition from linear to circular economic models. It offers analyses of opportunities and trade-offs associated with such transitions.
Online tool/database

Collective investor impact in secondary markets

Sustainable Finance Observatory
This report explores collective investor impact mechanisms in secondary markets, focusing on collaborative engagement and coordinated price signalling. It examines how collective actions by investors, such as joint shareholder engagements and price signals, can influence corporate behaviour more effectively than individual efforts, with practical recommendations for successful implementation.
Research
25 October 2024

Global Food and Nutrition Security Dashboard

The Global Food and Nutrition Security Dashboard, developed by the World Bank, G7, and partners, offers timely, high-quality data on food crises at both country and global levels. It provides insights into food insecurity, nutrition, and related indicators, supporting informed decision-making and policy development.
Online tool/database

Integrated Biodiversity Assessment Tool (IBAT)

United Nations Environment Programme
IBAT is a live geospatial tool to identify where operations and supplier locations sit in areas of interest, like key biodiversity areas. Great screening tool, with an alert feature and visual outputs. It provides biodiversity data to support risk assessments and informed decision-making in investments.
Online tool/database
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