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MetricCorporate biodiversity or nature-related policies in investee or counterparty companies

Exposure to companies without established corporate biodiversity or nature-related policies

Measurement answer

What this metric measures

Reports the reporting financial institution's absolute exposure amount and/or share of total exposure to companies that do not have established corporate biodiversity or nature-related policies.

Specification

Metric specification

Result format
Structured table
Unit
Structured table — see field-level units
Reporting basis
Reporting period of the reporting financial institution
Aggregation
Total exposure amount and/or proportion of the reporting institution's total exposure
Pillar
Governance
Topic
Corporate biodiversity or nature-related policies in investee or counterparty companies
Controlled domain
Sustainable finance
Entity type
Metric

Reporting boundary

Exposure to companies assessed as not having established corporate biodiversity or nature-related policies; the reporting institution must define the exposure population and basis of exposure included.

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 Disclosure

    TNFD sector guidance

    Source evidence
    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 Financial Institutions v2.0, p.18, additional financial-institution indicators bullet list: "Exposure to companies without corporate biodiversity or nature-related policies"; specifies reporting the extent of exposure as an absolute amount and/or proportion of total exposure. | p.18, additional financial-institution indicators bullet list
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  • Adopting Disclosure

    TNFD sector guidance

    Unnumbered in source
    Publisher
    Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures
    Edition
    Version 2.0, June 2024
    Requirement
    Recommended
    Relationship
    Maps Source Identity
    Mapping outcome
    Published
    Source locator
    p.18, additional financial-institution indicators bullet list
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Value structure

Dimensions and units

Unit
Structured table — see field-level units
Reporting basis
Reporting period of the reporting financial institution

Unit meaning: Each field uses its stated unit and retains the applicable sector, reporting boundary, period and method.

Table fields and units

  • Exposure population or portfolio boundary
  • Absolute exposure amount to companies without established corporate biodiversity or nature-related policies
  • Total exposure denominator
  • Proportion of total exposure
  • Policy-assessment criteria or methodology

Published dimensions

  • Policy status: companies without established corporate biodiversity or nature-related policies
  • Measure type: absolute exposure amount and/or proportion of total exposure
  • Exposure population or portfolio boundary as defined by the reporting financial institution

Disclosure method

Formula information

Status
Not applicable
Formula type
Structured Disclosure

Disclosure form

No single formula

Report the source-defined result with its stated fields and method disclosures. This is a standalone additional Financial Institutions reporting indicator with an explicitly reportable amount and/or proportion. It is not the same construct as exposure to nature-related risk or vulnerability: the classification condition is the absence of an established corporate biodiversity or nature-related policy, rather than risk exposure or vulnerability. Because the source does not prescribe a currency, exposure basis, denominator composition, or policy-assessment test, these must be disclosed as methodological and boundary qualifiers rather than inferred.

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 Financial Institutions v2.0, p.18, additional financial-institution indicators bullet list: "Exposure to companies without corporate biodiversity or nature-related policies"; specifies reporting the extent of exposure as an absolute amount and/or proportion of total exposure. | p.18, additional financial-institution indicators bullet list

    Supports: The official TNFD sector guidance supports the identity, boundary and method basis of “Exposure to companies without established corporate biodiversity or nature-related policies”.

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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 the exposure population, financial instruments or relationships, and exposure basis included in the measure.
  • Disclose the denominator used for the proportion of total exposure.
  • Describe the criteria and evidence used to determine that a company does not have an established corporate biodiversity or nature-related policy.
  • Disclose the reporting currency and valuation or accounting basis when reporting an absolute amount.

Record-specific limitations

  • The source does not prescribe a currency, exposure instrument set, valuation basis, or assessment methodology for determining whether a company has an established policy.
  • The reported proportion is comparable only where the total-exposure denominator, exposure basis, and policy-assessment approach are disclosed.

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.