Area of sites associated with sensitive locations covered by impact management plans
Measurement answer
What this metric measures
Discloses the area of organisational land associated with sensitive locations, the extent covered by impact-management plans and the proportion of those plans independently verified or approved.
Specification
Metric specification
- Result format
- Structured table
- Unit
- km² and % — source-defined reporting unit
- Reporting basis
- Reporting period
- Aggregation
- Report total area and proportions for the reporting entity, with results separately identified by management-plan and independent-verification or approval status.
- Pillar
- Environmental
- Topic
- Sensitive locations and biodiversity impact management
- Controlled domain
- Nature, biodiversity and land
- Entity type
- Metric
Reporting boundary
Land owned, leased or managed by the organisation that is in, adjacent to, or has the potential to impact sensitive locations.
Verified source occurrences
Framework coverage
This is one canonical metric. The bindings below show every verified framework occurrence without creating duplicate metric pages. Edition, disclosure, role, and relationship remain source-specific.
- Adopting DisclosureSource evidence
TNFD sector guidance
- Publisher
- Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures
- Edition
- Final English sector guidance collection through August 2026 (17 documents)
- Requirement
- Not Specified
- Relationship
- Defines Disclosure
- Mapping outcome
- Direct Evidence
- Source locator
- TNFD additional sector guidance, page 86, Section 3.2, Table 24, official metric code MM.C23.0. | Page 86, Section 3.2, Table 24, MM.C23.0
- Adopting DisclosureMM.C23.0
TNFD sector guidance
- Publisher
- Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures
- Edition
- Version 1.0, June 2024
- Requirement
- Conditional
- Relationship
- Maps Source Identity
- Mapping outcome
- Published
- Source locator
- Page 86, Section 3.2, Table 24, MM.C23.0
Value structure
Dimensions and units
- Unit
- km² and % — source-defined reporting unit
- Reporting basis
- Reporting period
Unit meaning: Values use km² and % under the disclosed TNFD sector-guidance method, reporting period and boundary.
Table fields and units
- sensitive-location type
- relationship to sensitive location
- land tenure or control category
- total associated land area (km²)
- area covered by qualifying impact-management plans (km²)
- proportion covered by qualifying impact-management plans (%)
- area with independently verified or approved plans (km²)
- proportion of plans independently verified or approved (%)
Published dimensions
- relationship to sensitive location (in, adjacent to, potentially impacting)
- land tenure or operational control (owned, leased, managed)
- management-plan coverage status
- independent verification or approval status
- sensitive-location type
Disclosure method
Formula information
- Status
- Not applicable
- Formula type
- Structured Disclosure
Disclosure form
No single formulaReport the source-defined result with its stated fields and method disclosures. This is a standalone TNFD core-sector structured metric with reportable area and proportional outputs. It is not the same construct as a site-count or general nature-action-plan metric because its denominator is land area associated with sensitive locations and it retains plan-verification status.
Verified sources
Evidence and status sources
Sustopedia checked each record-specific claim directly against primary publisher material. Labels distinguish current measurement authority from future compatibility and corroborative, legal, edition, or method status context. Corroborative evidence can support a stated limitation but cannot establish the core measurement by itself.
Measurement evidence
- Measurement evidenceChecked 30 August 2026
TNFD additional sector guidance collection
- Publisher
- Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures
- Edition
- Final English sector guidance collection through August 2026 (17 documents)
- Locator
- TNFD additional sector guidance, page 86, Section 3.2, Table 24, official metric code MM.C23.0. | Page 86, Section 3.2, Table 24, MM.C23.0
Supports: The official TNFD sector guidance supports the identity, boundary and method basis of “Area of sites associated with sensitive locations covered by impact management plans”.
Open official source
Use with context
Interpretation boundaries
Method disclosures required
Source-edition basis: TNFD sector guidance, Final English sector guidance collection through August 2026 (17 documents).
- Define sensitive locations and state the data sources, spatial criteria and assessment date used to identify them.
- State the organisational and operational boundary for owned, leased and managed land.
- Disclose the denominator used for each proportion and whether areas may fall into more than one sensitive-location relationship category.
- Describe the criteria for a qualifying impact-management plan and the basis for independent verification or approval.
Record-specific limitations
- The source evidence does not specify a universal definition or delineation method for sensitive locations; the reporter must disclose its applied classification.
- Area and percentage outputs are not interchangeable and must retain their respective denominators.
- Independent verification and approval are distinct status concepts where both are reported.
Interpret this metric with the stated reporting boundary, period convention, value shape, and unit. Results prepared with different boundaries or conventions may not be directly comparable.
Measurement evidence supports the core record-specific claims described above. Corroborative evidence can support limitations, while compatibility and status sources provide their separately labelled context. None of these cards by itself determines an organisation's legal applicability, filing readiness, assurance status, or compliance conclusion.