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Putting TNFD to work: Insights from early adopters
This report analyses how early adopters are implementing the TNFD framework, highlighting integration with climate disclosures, flexible use of the LEAP approach, and application of data tools. Insights show how businesses align nature-related risks with strategy and reporting, with regional uptake led by Asia Pacific and Europe.
CEW's senior executive census series
This benchmark series tracks annual progress in women's representation in executive leadership roles across the ASX300. It provides a consistent and comparative overview of gender diversity trends, highlights structural barriers, and evaluates corporate efforts towards achieving gender balance in leadership.
How to identify human rights risks: A practical guide in due diligence
This guide outlines a structured approach for investors to identify and prioritise human rights risks across countries, sectors, and companies. It supports due diligence through risk mapping, severity assessment, and prioritisation frameworks, promoting responsible investment aligned with international human rights standards.
Conservation investment blueprint: Cleaner production in the textile sector - Büyük Menderes
The report outlines a conservation investment blueprint aimed at reducing water and chemical pollution in Turkey’s Büyük Menderes River Basin by improving cleaner production practices in the textile sector. It details financial models, stakeholder incentives, and replicability to enhance ecosystem health while maintaining industry competitiveness and regulatory compliance.
Natural capital and organizations strategies: An overview of available tools
This guide outlines a variety of tools and methodologies designed to help companies integrate natural capital considerations into their business decision-making processes. It provides detailed descriptions of different tools, case studies, and practical examples, enabling businesses to assess their environmental impacts, dependencies, and opportunities. The guide aims to promote sustainable business practices by highlighting the importance of valuing natural capital.
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.
How to achieve deforestation-free pensions
This guide provides investors with a roadmap for creating deforestation-free pension portfolios. It offers strategies and best practices for identifying and mitigating deforestation risks, ensuring responsible investment in pension funds.
Our commitment to nature: Supporting biodiversity and sustainable land use through engagement
This paper outlines Federated Hermes' expectations and engagement priorities for sectors characterised by having high biodiversity impacts and dependencies. These include consumer goods and retail, agrochemicals, mining and materials, oil and gas, utilities, real estate and construction, and finance.
Engaging affected stakeholders: The emerging duties of board members
This report provides guidance for corporate boards on effectively engaging stakeholders to uphold human rights. It outlines strategies for meaningful engagement, addressing stakeholder concerns, and integrating human rights considerations into corporate governance and decision-making processes.
Following the money: Financial services' links to deforestation and forest degradation in Australia
This report examines the financial flows that drive deforestation and environmental degradation in Australia. It tracks investments and funding sources linked to activities that impact the environment, providing transparency and accountability. The report aims to inform stakeholders, including policymakers, investors, and the public, about the financial drivers of environmental harm and promote responsible investment practices.
Beyond 'business as usual': Biodiversity targets and finance - Managing biodiversity risks across business sectors
This report aims to enable a better understanding of the business sectors and financial mechanisms a risk from biodiversity destruction and lay the ground-work for target setting by the finance sector. It also supports investors in understanding the broader economic implications of biodiversity loss, offering insights and recommendations for integrating biodiversity into business and investment strategies.
Why nature’s future underpins the future of business
This extended article by the Financial Times captures how nature loss is impacting businesses across the globe, comparing and contrasting biodiversity loss with climate change. The challenges and opportunities for businesses presented by the nature crisis are also discussed, with the article closing by reinforcing the business case for responding to nature loss.
Biodiversity in the balance: How nature poses investment risk and opportunity
The white paper summarises and presents key information about biodiversity risks and opportunities for investors, drawing from prominent publications by a range of international agencies. The paper re-produces popular charts from papers such as the Millennial Ecosystem Assessment, WEF Nature Risk report series, and the WEF Global Risk Report to highlight the key investment/business case for biodiversity.
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.
The prevention of adult exploitation and trafficking
The report synthesises research between 2020-2024 on preventing adult exploitation and trafficking. It highlights limited evidence on early intervention, re-trafficking prevention, and primary prevention. Recommendations include better prevention systems, multi-agency collaboration, addressing root causes, and evaluating effective trade and governance practices.
Net Environmental Contribution (NEC) metric
This tool measures the environmental impact of economic activity, company, or sector, to deliver a net contribution value on -100% to +100% scale, using physical data from across the value chain. It can be applied at company, portfolio, index, product/source levels. Includes qualitative and quantitative criteria on biodiversity.