The Taskforce for Nature focused Disclosures has made its final beta framework release for nature-related risk management and disclosure. The TNFD framework is anchored by the same four pillars of the TCFD approach and all 11 of the TCFD recommended disclosures have been incorporated into the TNFD final draft, providing market participants with a high level of alignment with the structure, language and approach taken by the TCFD. This should encourage and enable market participants to move towards integrated climate-nature disclosures.
The approach is also designed to allow organizations to signal their alignment to global policy goals, such as the recently negotiated Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF), much as they are now doing with climate reporting and net zero transition planning aligned to the goals of the Paris Agreement. The three tiers of proposed disclosure metrics are:
- Core Global Disclosure Metrics – that are relevant broadly to organizations across sectors and are reflected in global policy priorities, including the Global Biodiversity Framework.
- Core Sector Disclosure Metrics – to enable capital providers to make comparable assessments of businesses within a sector; and
- Additional Disclosure Metrics -to enable report preparers to include metrics that might be particularly relevant to their business model and nature-related issues.
Source Link – TNFD releases fourth and final beta framework – TNFD
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