Board members with nature-related competence coverage
Measurement answer
What this metric measures
Reports board-level nature-related competence as an absolute number and proportion of total board membership, with the competence basis and denominator visible.
Specification
Metric specification
- Result format
- Structured table
- Unit
- members; % — source-defined reporting unit
- Reporting basis
- Reporting period
- Aggregation
- Report the number of board members with relevant nature-related expertise and the corresponding share of total board members.
- Pillar
- Governance
- Topic
- Nature-related governance competence
- Controlled domain
- Governance and business conduct
- Entity type
- Metric
Reporting boundary
The reporting entity's board during the reporting period.
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 Disclosurer004
TNFD LEAP approach
- Publisher
- Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures
- Edition
- Version 1.1, October 2023
- Requirement
- Not Specified
- Relationship
- Reuses Canonical Metric
- Mapping outcome
- Reused
- Source locator
- TNFD LEAP Approach v1.1, Annex 1, Table 28, PDF page 178, metric row 4
- Adopting DisclosureSource evidence
TNFD Recommendations
- Publisher
- Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures
- Edition
- September 2023
- Requirement
- Not Specified
- Relationship
- Defines Disclosure
- Mapping outcome
- Direct Evidence
- Source locator
- TNFD Recommendations, September 2023, p. 48, Governance, Disclosure A, supporting indicators
- Adopting Disclosure0ab35a92835ca2112e6a
TNFD Recommendations
- Publisher
- Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures
- Edition
- September 2023
- Requirement
- Not Specified
- Relationship
- Maps Source Identity
- Mapping outcome
- Published
- Source locator
- Page 48, Governance, Disclosure A, supporting indicators | TNFD Recommendations, September 2023, p. 48, Governance, Disclosure A, supporting indicators
Value structure
Dimensions and units
- Unit
- members; % — source-defined reporting unit
- Reporting basis
- Reporting period
Unit meaning: Values use members; % under the disclosed TNFD Recommendations method, period, location and reporting boundary.
Table fields and units
- governance body
- competence definition or basis
- board members with relevant nature-related competence (members)
- total board members (members)
- board members with relevant nature-related competence (%)
Published dimensions
- governance body
- nature-related competence or expertise basis
- absolute member count
- share of total board members
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 reportable supporting governance indicator explicitly described in the TNFD Recommendations. The count and percentage are retained together because the source specifies both representations, and the entity-defined expertise criterion is preserved as a required methodological disclosure. No existing shortlist item represents nature-related board competence with the same construct and denominator.
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 27 August 2026
Recommendations of the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures
- Publisher
- Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures
- Edition
- September 2023
- Locator
- TNFD Recommendations, September 2023, p. 48, Governance, Disclosure A, supporting indicators
Supports: The official TNFD Recommendations source supports the identity, boundary and method basis of “Board members with nature-related competence coverage”.
Open official source
Use with context
Interpretation boundaries
Method disclosures required
Source-edition basis: Recommendations of the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures, September 2023.
- Define the board or governing body included in the denominator.
- Describe the criteria used to identify relevant nature-related expertise or competence.
- Disclose the total number of board members used as the denominator and the reporting-period date or basis for the count.
Record-specific limitations
- TNFD presents this as a supporting indicator to consider disclosing rather than an Annex 1 core global metric.
- What qualifies as relevant nature-related competence is not universally defined in the cited source and must be described by the reporting entity.
- The indicator measures represented competence on the board, not the quality, effectiveness, or use of governance oversight.
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.