Change in availability and quality of ecosystem services impacted by the organization
Measurement answer
What this metric measures
Reports method-selected changes in the availability and quality of ecosystem services impacted by the organization, disaggregated by service and relevant assessment context.
Specification
Metric specification
- Result format
- Structured table
- Unit
- Structured table — see field-level units
- Reporting basis
- Reporting period, with the comparison period or baseline used to determine change disclosed.
- Aggregation
- Report by ecosystem service and relevant location or ecosystem context; do not aggregate locations with materially different natural characteristics.
- Pillar
- Environmental
- Topic
- Ecosystem services
- Controlled domain
- Nature, biodiversity and land
- Entity type
- Metric
Reporting boundary
Ecosystem services impacted by the organization, with the organizational activities and value-chain scope used in the assessment disclosed.
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 Disclosurer001
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 24, PDF page 167, metric row 1
- 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, Annex 2, page 92, metric A6.0
- Adopting Disclosure6d572f9d91f54fddd4b0
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 92, metric A6.0 | TNFD Recommendations, September 2023, Annex 2, page 92, metric A6.0
Value structure
Dimensions and units
- Unit
- Structured table — see field-level units
- Reporting basis
- Reporting period, with the comparison period or baseline used to determine change disclosed.
Unit meaning: Each field uses its source-defined unit and retains the applicable location, ecosystem type, value-chain position, status and method.
Table fields and units
- Ecosystem service
- Affected location, ecosystem, or biome
- Organizational activity or value-chain scope
- Availability and/or quality attribute
- Reported change
- Unit
- Comparison period or baseline
- Direct or proxy method
- Methodology and limitations
Published dimensions
- issue type: impact
- ecosystem service
- availability and/or quality attribute
- change direction and magnitude
- location, geography, ecosystem or biome
- business activity and direct operations, upstream value chain, or downstream value chain scope
- direct measurement or proxy method
- comparison period or baseline
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. A6.0 is an Annex 2 optional additional TNFD metric that calls for reporting changes in ecosystem-service availability and quality resulting from organizational impacts. It is publishable as a structured, method-selected outcome disclosure, but not as a universal scalar or ecosystem-condition metric. The shortlisted ecosystem-condition metric has a different construct and fixed area/reference-condition framing; the GRI and ESRS shortlist entries are lists, narratives, or affected-community constructs rather than measured change attributable to organizational impacts.
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, Annex 2, page 92, metric A6.0
Supports: The official TNFD Recommendations source supports the identity, boundary and method basis of “Change in availability and quality of ecosystem services impacted by the organization”.
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Interpretation boundaries
Method disclosures required
Source-edition basis: Recommendations of the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures, September 2023.
- Describe the LEAP-informed approach used to identify affected ecosystem services and assess change.
- Disclose the definition of availability and quality, the comparison period or baseline, and the measurement or proxy method.
- Disclose organizational, activity, value-chain, geographic, and ecosystem boundaries.
- Disclose units, data sources, assumptions, estimation techniques, and material limitations for each reported result.
Record-specific limitations
- TNFD does not specify a universal unit, calculation formula, or cross-service aggregation method in the extracted A6.0 evidence.
- Reported results are method-, service-, and location-dependent and should not be treated as directly comparable where underlying assessment methods or natural characteristics differ.
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.