Urgent action is needed to stop the ongoing environmental degradation of our planet. As ecosystems face increasing pressures, it is crucial for businesses to recognize and address their impacts on nature. Integrating nature into decision-making is essential for sustaining both natural and financial capital, and investors play an important role in guiding companies toward sustainable business practices.
INFORM provides a science-based framework for investors to monitor and assess portfolio companies’ environmental performance, with specific focus on nature and biodiversity. It is designed to increase competency around this topic among engagement officers and companies alike. By linking the guidance to existing targets and frameworks, it is also designed to support investors, engagement officers, and companies as they journey towards the necessary shift in sustainability information disclosure needed for emerging reporting requirements and for more accurately assessing nature- and biodiversity-related risks.
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INFORM provides a detailed focus that aims to help investors, and specifically engagement officers, guide and support companies as they move from making commitments to mapping their biodiversity impact and developing mitigative actions to reach committed targets. This is a key step in risk mitigation and for achieving the long-term investor interest of addressing systemic risks.
To account for varying maturity in nature-related issues among companies and investors we outlined two ways to use the framework; one for Entry-level users and one for Advanced users. Entry-level users can use INFORM to increase their own (and companies’) understanding of biodiversity impacts and their importance for target setting and risk assessment. Advanced users can use INFORM as a detailed support for driving transformation in their portfolio companies.
