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MetricNature-related financial exposure

Exposure to sensitive locations

Measurement answer

What this metric measures

Reports financial-institution exposure to companies operating in sensitive locations. For banks, exposure is reported as an absolute lending amount and/or percentage of lending volume.

Specification

Metric specification

Result format
Multi-field profile
Unit
Structured table — see field-level units
Reporting basis
Reporting period disclosed by the financial institution
Aggregation
For banks, reported as an absolute amount or percentage of lending volume; disaggregated by applicable asset class where applicable
Pillar
Environmental
Topic
Nature-related financial exposure
Controlled domain
Sustainable finance
Entity type
Metric

Reporting boundary

Exposure to companies operating in sensitive locations within the financial institution's applicable asset classes; for banks, lending exposure

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
    Financial Institutions v2.0, PDF p.16, section 3.2, FI.C0.1, Exposure to sensitive locations | PDF p.16, §3.2, Financial institution core disclosure metric (FI.C0.1) – Exposure to sensitive locations
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  • Adopting Disclosure

    TNFD sector guidance

    FI.C0.1
    Publisher
    Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures
    Edition
    Version 2.0, June 2024
    Requirement
    Conditional
    Relationship
    Maps Source Identity
    Mapping outcome
    Published
    Source locator
    PDF p.16, §3.2, Financial institution core disclosure metric (FI.C0.1) – Exposure to sensitive locations
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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
    Conditional
    Relationship
    Maps Source Identity
    Mapping outcome
    Published
    Source locator
    p.19, Table 3; p.18, section 3.4 Asset class coverage
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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
    Conditional
    Relationship
    Maps Source Identity
    Mapping outcome
    Published
    Source locator
    page 17
    Open official framework source
  • Adopting Disclosure

    TNFD sector guidance

    Unnumbered in source
    Publisher
    Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures
    Edition
    Version 2.0, June 2024
    Requirement
    Conditional
    Relationship
    Maps Source Identity
    Mapping outcome
    Published
    Source locator
    page 17
    Open official framework source

Value structure

Dimensions and units

Unit
Structured table — see field-level units
Reporting basis
Reporting period disclosed by the financial institution

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

Table fields and units

  • Asset class
  • Sensitive-location assessment basis
  • Exposure measure type
  • Exposure amount or percentage
  • Lending volume denominator where applicable
  • Geographic sensitive location or location grouping

Published dimensions

  • financial institution asset class
  • exposure measure type
  • lending volume denominator for banks
  • sensitive-location assessment basis
  • geographic sensitive location

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. The candidate is the official FI.C0.1 core disclosure metric and specifies a standalone exposure profile. It merges with the other FI.C0.1 cluster under the same stable identity while retaining the banking-specific lending-volume expression. No shortlisted metric matches its nature-related sensitive-location and financial-institution exposure boundary.

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
    Financial Institutions v2.0, PDF p.16, section 3.2, FI.C0.1, Exposure to sensitive locations | PDF p.16, §3.2, Financial institution core disclosure metric (FI.C0.1) – Exposure to sensitive locations

    Supports: The official TNFD sector guidance supports the identity, boundary and method basis of “Exposure to sensitive locations”.

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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).

  • Definition or criteria used to identify sensitive locations.
  • Method used to identify companies operating in sensitive locations.
  • Asset classes included, including the banking lending portfolio where applicable.
  • Whether bank exposure is presented as an absolute lending amount, percentage of lending volume, or both.
  • Treatment of exposures requiring further analysis or excluded from the assessment.

Record-specific limitations

  • The metric supports identification of exposures requiring further analysis; it does not itself measure actual nature-related risk or impact.
  • The extracted specification expressly identifies lending volume as the banking expression; units for other asset classes are not established in this evidence.

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.