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MetricCollaborative agreements and stakeholder participation

Participation in sector-wide or multi-stakeholder agreements

Measurement answer

What this metric measures

Counts of sector-wide or multi-stakeholder agreements in which the organization participates, with separately reported breadth of stakeholder and stakeholder-group coverage.

Specification

Metric specification

Result format
Structured table
Unit
count — source-defined reporting unit
Reporting basis
Reporting period
Aggregation
Count participating sector-wide or multi-stakeholder initiatives, and separately count covered stakeholders and stakeholder groups; these counts must not be added together.
Pillar
Governance
Topic
Collaborative agreements and stakeholder participation
Controlled domain
Workforce
Entity type
Metric

Reporting boundary

Agreements and initiatives in which the reporting organization participated 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 Disclosure

    TNFD LEAP approach

    r022
    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 180, metric row 2
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  • 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
    PDF page 96, Table 10, metric A20.1
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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
    PDF page 96, Table 10, metric A20.1
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Value structure

Dimensions and units

Unit
count — source-defined reporting unit
Reporting basis
Reporting period

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

Table fields and units

  • agreement or initiative name
  • agreement type
  • sector or subject
  • geography
  • organization participation status
  • number of stakeholders covered
  • number of stakeholder groups covered
  • reporting period

Published dimensions

  • agreement or initiative
  • agreement type
  • sector
  • stakeholder group
  • geography
  • business activity
  • participation status
  • period

Calculation method

Formula information

Status
Specified
Formula type
Count

Formula

N_initiatives = count qualifying agreements in which the organization participated; N_stakeholders and N_groups are separately reported counts of stakeholders and stakeholder groups covered.

Apply the source-defined TNFD Recommendations method only within the disclosed location, ecosystem and value-chain boundary. A20.1 specifies reportable counts for collaborative participation and stakeholder breadth. It is retained as a structured disclosure because the initiative, stakeholder, and stakeholder-group counts have different populations and meanings.

Variables

SymbolVariableDefinitionUnit
N_initiativesParticipating initiativesNumber of qualifying sector-wide or multi-stakeholder agreements or initiatives in which the organization participated.count
N_stakeholdersStakeholders coveredNumber of stakeholders covered by the reported agreements or initiatives under the disclosed counting method.count
N_groupsStakeholder groups coveredNumber of stakeholder groups covered by the reported agreements or initiatives under the disclosed grouping method.count

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
    PDF page 96, Table 10, metric A20.1

    Supports: The official TNFD Recommendations source supports the identity, boundary and method basis of “Participation in sector-wide or multi-stakeholder agreements”.

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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.

  • Define what qualifies as a sector-wide or multi-stakeholder agreement or initiative.
  • Disclose the participation criterion, including whether membership, active participation, funding, or another form of involvement is counted.
  • Disclose the method for counting stakeholders and stakeholder groups and how duplicate participants across initiatives are handled.
  • Identify the reporting period and organizational boundary covered.

Record-specific limitations

  • Participation counts indicate involvement and breadth of engagement, not the effectiveness or outcomes of an agreement.
  • Stakeholder counts and stakeholder-group counts are distinct measures and may overlap across initiatives.
  • The metric is an optional additional TNFD metric and is not a core global metric acceptance gate.

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.