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Sector guidance: Additional guidance for financial institutions
This document provides proposed additional guidance for financial institutions on the TNFD’s recommended disclosures.
OECD due diligence guidance for meaningful stakeholder engagement in the extractive sector
The guide helps financial institutions mitigate risks and enhance transparency by providing a framework for effective stakeholder engagement. This guidance supports informed and responsible investment decisions, ultimately improving relationships with affected communities and reducing potential legal and operational challenges.
Stakeholder engagement: A good practice handbook for companies doing business in emerging markets
This guide offers a comprehensive framework for involving stakeholders in development projects. They aim to achieve effective communication, transparency, and inclusive participation, ensuring that the concerns and interests of all stakeholders, including vulnerable groups, are considered. This promotes better project outcomes, reduces risks, builds trust, and fosters sustainable and equitable development.
Nature target setting framework for asset managers and asset owners
The framework seeks to create a shared understanding and common language for investors on target setting, while steering private financial flows in alignment with the mission of the Global Biodiversity Framework to halt and reverse biodiversity loss by 2030. It focuses on listed equity and corporate bonds.
Let's discuss nature with climate: Engagement guide
This guide supports investors in integrating nature and climate considerations into investment strategies. It offers insights and frameworks for addressing the interconnected challenges of climate change and biodiversity loss, promoting holistic and sustainable investment approaches.
Financing the nature-positive transition: Understanding the role of banks, investors and insurers
This CEO brief by the WEF focuses on the business case for nature, highlighting the importance of integrating nature into financial decision-making to achieve sustainable economic growth and biodiversity conservation.
How business and finance can contribute to a nature positive future now
This report provides an in-depth exploration of the term "nature positive" and its implications for business and finance. It aims to build a shared understanding and alignment on what nature positive means, offering insights and recommendations to drive meaningful action towards halting and reversing nature loss. This report is particularly valuable for investors as it clarifies the concept of "nature positive" and its relevance to investment strategies. It helps investors understand the risks and opportunities associated with nature loss and provides a framework for integrating nature-positive principles into investment decisions.
Biodiversity credit markets: The role of law, regulation, and policy
This report explores legal, policy, and regulatory frameworks to develop high-integrity biodiversity credit markets. These markets aim to finance nature-positive and equitable outcomes, providing innovative and scalable funding for biodiversity conservation and restoration. This report provides investors with insights into the legal and regulatory foundations that support high quality offset markets. As such, this report can be used as a tool to inform policy advocacy in the biodiversity credit market space.
Exploring nature impacts and dependencies: A field guide to eight key sectors
This field guide helps investors identify and assess nature-related impacts and dependencies across eight key sectors. It provides sector-specific insights and strategies for integrating nature considerations into investment decisions.
Accountability for nature: Comparison of nature-related assessment and disclosure frameworks and standards
This report provides an overview of the key methodological and conceptual trends among the private sector assessment and disclosure approaches on nature-related issues. It provides comparative research on seven leading standards, frameworks and systems for assessment and disclosure on nature-related issues
Forest IQ
Powered by data from Trase Earth, Forest IQ has been developed to support banks and investors assess and manage their exposure to deforestation risk. Forest IQ provides market leading data about corporate performance on deforestation impacts, land conversion, and natural ecosystem and human rights abuses. Trase Earth offers open source data that is free to download.
Collect Earth
Collect Earth is a tool that enables data collection through Google Earth. In conjunction with Google Earth, Bing Maps and Google Earth Engine, users can analyse high and very high-resolution satellite imagery for a wide variety of purposes, including forest inventories, land use change and forestry assessments, monitoring, quantifying deforestation and more.
Finance sector supplement to the Natural Capital Protocol: Case study for BNP Paribas Asset Management
This case study explores the application of the Natural Capital Protocol in BNP Paribas Asset Management, providing investors with a practical framework for incorporating natural capital considerations into investment decision-making processes. It highlights methodologies for assessing natural capital dependencies and impacts, enabling more sustainable investment practices.
Global coal exit list (GCEL)
The Global Coal Exit List (GCEL) is an online database offering detailed information on companies involved in coal mining, power generation, and associated infrastructure. It assists finance professionals in identifying and divesting from coal-related businesses, promoting sustainable finance practices aligned with reducing reliance on fossil fuels.
Circular economy in the industrial goods sector: A framework for understanding private sector progress and innovation
This report outlines circular economy practices within the industrial goods sector, assessing actions taken by approximately 50 companies. It categorises their efforts into five key areas, highlighting examples of innovation and collaboration to advance sustainability while minimising waste and resource consumption in production processes.
Spotlight on nature: Case studies for business transformation towards a nature-positive future
This report highlights six case studies of businesses transforming towards a nature-positive future. It showcases their efforts to address nature-related risks and opportunities, focusing on areas such as sustainable forestry, circular resource use, soil health, sustainable seafood, biodiversity, and freshwater management.