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MetricSpecies and high-impact commodities

High-impact commodities involving threatened or CITES-listed species

Measurement answer

What this metric measures

Commodity-level proportion of high-impact commodities in scope that involve threatened species or species listed under CITES.

Specification

Metric specification

Result format
Structured table
Unit
percent or proportion — source-defined reporting unit
Reporting basis
Reporting period
Aggregation
Report the proportion for the defined population of high-impact commodities, retaining commodity and species-status dimensions rather than combining threatened and CITES-listed status without disclosure.
Pillar
Environmental
Topic
Species and high-impact commodities
Controlled domain
Nature, biodiversity and land
Entity type
Metric

Reporting boundary

High-impact commodities within the organization's defined sourcing or value-chain scope, identified using the SBTN High Impact Commodity List.

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 Recommendations

    Source evidence
    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, PDF page 86, footnotes 72 and 73
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  • Adopting Disclosure

    TNFD Recommendations

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    Publisher
    Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures
    Edition
    September 2023
    Requirement
    Not Specified
    Relationship
    Maps Source Identity
    Mapping outcome
    Published
    Source locator
    Page 86, footnotes 72 and 73 | TNFD Recommendations, September 2023, PDF page 86, footnotes 72 and 73
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Value structure

Dimensions and units

Unit
percent or proportion — source-defined reporting unit
Reporting basis
Reporting period

Unit meaning: Values use percent or proportion under the disclosed TNFD Recommendations method, period, location and reporting boundary.

Table fields and units

  • high-impact commodity
  • value-chain stage
  • sourcing geography
  • species-status category: threatened, CITES-listed, or both
  • numerator commodity count
  • denominator high-impact commodity count
  • proportion
  • assessment method

Published dimensions

  • high-impact commodity
  • value-chain stage
  • sourcing geography
  • threatened-species status
  • CITES-listing status
  • species or taxonomic group where available
  • direct or proxy assessment method

Calculation method

Formula information

Status
Specified
Formula type
Percentage

Formula

(Number of high-impact commodities in scope that involve threatened species or species listed under CITES / Total number of high-impact commodities in scope) × 100

Apply the source-defined TNFD Recommendations method only within the disclosed location, ecosystem and value-chain boundary. The source calls for disclosure of this proportion using the SBTN High Impact Commodity List. A structured family preserves commodity, geography, value-chain, and threatened-versus-CITES classification variants rather than flattening them into one undifferentiated scalar.

Variables

SymbolVariableDefinitionUnit
QQualifying high-impact commoditiesNumber of high-impact commodities in scope that involve threatened species or species listed under CITES, reported with status categories retained.count
HHigh-impact commodities in scopeTotal number of high-impact commodities in the organization's defined scope.count

Verified sources

Evidence and status sources

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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, PDF page 86, footnotes 72 and 73

    Supports: The official TNFD Recommendations source supports the identity, boundary and method basis of “High-impact commodities involving threatened or CITES-listed species”.

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Use with context

Interpretation boundaries

Method disclosures required

Source-edition basis: Recommendations of the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures, September 2023.

  • Identify the edition or version of the SBTN High Impact Commodity List applied.
  • Define the high-impact commodity population and the organizational sourcing or value-chain boundary used as the denominator.
  • Define what constitutes a commodity involving a threatened species or a CITES-listed species.
  • Disclose classification sources, geographic coverage, data gaps, use of estimates or proxies, and treatment of dual threatened-and-CITES classifications.

Record-specific limitations

  • The evidence does not specify a universal commodity population, sourcing boundary, or treatment of commodities associated with both threatened and CITES-listed species.
  • Threatened-species and CITES-listing classifications are distinct and should be retained as separate dimensions.
  • The metric is dependent on the selected SBTN High Impact Commodity List and the organization’s ability to identify commodity-species involvement.

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.