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MetricBiodiversity, ecosystems and land

Habitat area by protection and restoration status

Measurement answer

What this metric measures

Area of a named habitat retained separately by protected, under-restoration, restored, rehabilitated, or recreated status and by site and control relationship.

Specification

Metric specification

Result format
Structured table
Unit
Structured table — see field-level units
Reporting basis
Reporting-date area stock with action and validation dates
Aggregation
Sum only unique polygons within one mutually exclusive status view
Pillar
Environmental
Topic
Biodiversity, ecosystems and land
Controlled domain
Nature, biodiversity and land
Entity type
Metric

Reporting boundary

Named habitat polygons classified by protection, under-restoration, restored, rehabilitated, or recreated status, site, control relationship, action stage, and observation date. Restoration and offsets remain distinct.

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

    CDP Full Corporate Questionnaire 2026

    habitat-area-by-protection-and-restoration-status
    Publisher
    CDP
    Edition
    Full Corporate Questionnaire and Reporting Guidance 2026 v1.3, revised 6 August 2026
    Requirement
    Conditional
    Relationship
    Reuses Canonical Metric
    Mapping outcome
    Reused
    Source locator
    Q11.13.1, numeric field 1 | Q11.13.1, numeric field 2 | Q11.17.1, numeric field 1 | Q11.17.1, numeric field 2
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  • Adopting Disclosure

    GRI Standards

    Source evidence
    Publisher
    Global Reporting Initiative
    Edition
    Published 2024; effective for reporting from 1 January 2026
    Requirement
    Not Specified
    Relationship
    Defines Disclosure
    Mapping outcome
    Direct Evidence
    Source locator
    Effective-date notice and Disclosures 101-2, 101-5, 101-6, and 101-7, PDF pages 1–2 and 9–30
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  • Adopting Disclosure

    TNFD sector guidance

    C1.1
    Publisher
    Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures
    Edition
    Version 1.0, June 2024
    Requirement
    Conditional
    Relationship
    Reuses Canonical Metric
    Mapping outcome
    Reused
    Source locator
    Page 46, Section 3.1, Table 13, C1.1 (ecosystem conserved or restored)
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  • Adopting Disclosure

    TNFD sector guidance

    C1.1
    Publisher
    Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures
    Edition
    Version 1.0, June 2024
    Requirement
    Conditional
    Relationship
    Reuses Canonical Metric
    Mapping outcome
    Reused
    Source locator
    Page 59, Section 3.1, Table 12, C1.1
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Value structure

Dimensions and units

Unit
Structured table — see field-level units
Reporting basis
Reporting-date area stock with action and validation dates

Unit meaning: This metric is reported as a structured table; each field carries the unit stated in the table fields below.

Table fields and units

  • Site, habitat or ecosystem type, polygon, control relationship, and boundary
  • Status (protected, under restoration, restored, rehabilitated, or recreated)
  • Area (ha — hectares of the named habitat polygon; 1 ha = 10,000 m²)
  • Action stage, start, completion, validation and observation dates
  • Target species, review status, stakeholder engagement, consent state, method, and source

Published dimensions

  • Site, habitat, polygon, protection or restoration status, control, stage, and observation date

Disclosure method

Formula information

Status
Not applicable
Formula type
Structured Disclosure

Disclosure form

No single formula

Populate the structured fields from qualifying source observations and retain each field-level unit, boundary, status, and method; do not collapse the disclosure into one calculated value.

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 15 August 2026

    GRI 101: Biodiversity 2024

    Publisher
    Global Reporting Initiative
    Edition
    Published 2024; effective for reporting from 1 January 2026
    Locator
    Effective-date notice and Disclosures 101-2, 101-5, 101-6, and 101-7, PDF pages 1–2 and 9–30

    Supports: Official publisher reference linked specifically to the Sustopedia metric “Habitat area by protection and restoration status”; interpret it with the source-edition basis and limitations shown on this page.

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Use with context

Interpretation boundaries

Method disclosures required

Source-edition basis: Effective GRI 101: Biodiversity 2024 restoration profile and binding ESRS E4 application guidance under Regulation (EU) 2023/2772.

  • Name site, habitat or ecosystem type, polygon, status, control relationship, and on-site or off-site boundary.
  • State area in hectares of the named habitat, where 1 hectare equals 10,000 square metres.
  • State action stage, start, completion and validation dates, target species, and review status.
  • State stakeholder engagement and consent status, observation date, method, and source.
  • Identify overlapping statuses and sum only unique polygons in a declared mutually exclusive view.

Record-specific limitations

  • Protected or treated area does not establish habitat recovery, ecological condition, or additionality.
  • Protection and restoration statuses may overlap and cannot be added without a mutually exclusive polygon view.
  • Ownership, control, action stage, review, and stakeholder-consent state affect interpretation.

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.