Investing for nature: Guidance, standards and tools

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Description

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Thematic Area

Asset Class

Region

ENCORE is a tool provided by the ENCORE Partnership (Global Canopy, UNEP Finance Initiative, UNEP-WCMC) that allows financial institutions to discover their impacts and dependencies on natural capital.

ENCORE Partnership

Biodiversity

All

Global

This database ranks the most influential companies driving tropical deforestation through cattle, timber, soy, and palm oil supply chains.

Global Canopy

Deforestation

Fixed-income, listed equity

Global

A tool that allows organizations to monitor and manage forest-related activities. Aimed at businesses, NGOs, and governments.

World Resources Institute (WRI)

Deforestation

All

Global

This GRI standard helps organisations better understand which decisions and business practices lead to biodiversity loss, where in their value chain impacts occur, and how they can be managed.

GRI

Biodiversity, Reporting

All

Global

This tool provides data for assessing biodiversity risks in various settings, including proximity to protected areas, key biodiversity areas, and threatened species.

IBAT Alliance

Biodiversity

All

Global

This index provides metrics and indices to assess the health of planet's biodiversity. It is widely used to inform policy and conservation efforts.

Zoological Society of London and WWF

Biodiversity, Measurement

All

Global

Aims to prepare institutional investors for the portfolio risks and opportunities associated with a forecast acceleration of policy responses to climate change and nature loss.

Energy Transition Advisors

Nature, Scenarios

All

Global

This PRI resource offers guidance on how investors can identify and manage risks related to the depletion of natural capital, such as water, soil, and air quality.

PRI and UNEP-WCMC

Nature

All

Global

This tool from TNFD helps investors access data that is essential for making nature-related financial disclosures.

TNFD

Nature

All

Global

Trase offers a data-driven platform that helps investors understand supply chain risks, including biodiversity loss associated with commodity trading.

SEI and Global Canopy

Deforestation

All

Global

This provides a methodology to profile nature-related dependencies and impacts.

UNEP-WCMC

Nature

All

Global

This provides a benchmark measuring corporate performance on sustainability and biodiversity.

World Benchmarking Alliance

Biodiversity

All

Global

A guide aimed at finanical institutions, outlining the key biodiversity measurement approaches with their advantages and disadvantages.

Finance for Biodiversity

Biodiversity, Measurement

All

Global

This tool helps users carry out a first screening of environmental impacts that are potentially material relevant to the sector and business activities.

SBTN and UNEP-WCMC

Nature, Measurement, Targets

All

Global

A data platform for financial institutions looking to track and address their links to deforestation.

Global Canopy, Stockholm Environment Institute, ZSL

Deforestation, Engagement

All

Global

This is a data platform, with tools that help companies, governments, and civil society understand and respond to water risks – such as water stress, variability from season-to-season, pollution, and water access.

WRI

Water

All

Global