Soil and water quality non-compliance incidents
Measurement answer
What this metric measures
Reports non-compliance incident counts for soil-quality and water-quality permits, standards or regulations across the specified value-chain stages.
Specification
Metric specification
- Result format
- Structured table
- Unit
- number of incidents — source-defined reporting unit
- Reporting basis
- Reporting period
- Aggregation
- Report incident counts separately for soil-quality and water-quality non-compliance events, retaining value-chain-stage disaggregation.
- Pillar
- Environmental
- Topic
- Pollution
- Controlled domain
- Pollution
- Entity type
- Metric
Reporting boundary
Non-compliance events related to soil-quality and water-quality permits, standards or regulations across direct operations, downstream activities and end-of-life activities.
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 DisclosureSource evidence
TNFD sector guidance
- 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
- Page 55, Section 3.2, Table 14: Core sector disclosure indicators and metrics
- Adopting DisclosureBP.C2.2
TNFD sector guidance
- Publisher
- Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures
- Edition
- Version 1.0, June 2024
- Requirement
- Conditional
- Relationship
- Maps Source Identity
- Mapping outcome
- Published
- Source locator
- Page 55, Section 3.2, Table 14: Core sector disclosure indicators and metrics
Value structure
Dimensions and units
- Unit
- number of incidents — source-defined reporting unit
- Reporting basis
- Reporting period
Unit meaning: Values use number of incidents under the disclosed TNFD sector-guidance method, reporting period and boundary.
Table fields and units
- Environmental medium
- Compliance instrument category
- Value-chain stage
- Number of non-compliance incidents
Published dimensions
- environmental medium: soil quality; water quality
- compliance instrument: permit, standard or regulation
- value-chain stage: direct operations, downstream activities, end-of-life activities
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. The source requires separately meaningful incident-count fields for soil quality and water quality. It is not the same construct as generic product-market, health-and-safety, discharge-limit, or fines disclosures in the shortlist, and therefore should remain a distinct structured environmental metric.
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
- Page 55, Section 3.2, Table 14: Core sector disclosure indicators and metrics
Supports: The official TNFD sector guidance supports the identity, boundary and method basis of “Soil and water quality non-compliance incidents”.
Open official source
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 event-counting rule, including treatment of multiple breaches arising from one event.
- Disclose the permits, standards and regulations included in the assessment.
- Disclose the organizational and value-chain boundary and the allocation of incidents to direct operations, downstream activities and end-of-life activities.
- State the basis for classifying an incident as soil-quality or water-quality related.
Record-specific limitations
- The extracted evidence does not define what constitutes a distinct incident where one event breaches multiple permits, standards or regulations.
- The evidence does not specify whether alleged, confirmed, resolved, or regulator-notified events are included.
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.