Finance for Biodiversity: Guide on biodiversity measurement approaches

As biodiversity loss becomes an increasingly urgent challenge, financial institutions are looking for ways to quantify the impacts and dependencies of their financial and investment activities on biodiversity.
Finance for Biodiversity and the European platform Business & Biodiversity have published the third edition of the "Guide to Approaches to Measuring Biodiversity", which builds on the work done in previous editions and provides information and support to financial institutions to understand existing approaches to measuring their interactions with biodiversity.
The new contents included in the guide consist of:
- Two new tools: Nature and Biodiversity Metrics (MSCI) and Biodiversity Impact Assessment Tool (ISS ESG).
- A new categorization of tools following current frameworks, such as the LEAP approach of the Task Force on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD).
- An up-to-date description, details and links of all tools, including TNFD reporting suitability.
- The update of the section "Types and sources of data on biodiversity".
The guide emphasizes the suitability of each tool for specific organizational focus areas, business applications, and asset categories, while highlighting their respective strengths and limitations.