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Nature Reporting Fundamentals

This course introduces the key concepts and reporting tools that help organizations understand, manage, and disclose their interactions with nature. As nature loss, ecosystem degradation, and biodiversity decline are increasingly recognized as systemic risks to economic stability and long-term resilience, organizations are expected to take a more active role in addressing these challenges.You will explore how business activities depend on and impact nature, how these interactions give rise to risks and opportunities, and how organizations can respond through effective management and transparent reporting. The course also introduces leading reporting tools such as the GRI Standards (particularly GRI 101: Biodiversity 2024) and the TNFD recommendations, which together support organizations in identifying, assessing, and disclosing nature-related issues.

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Course Content

In this part, you'll explore why nature is strategically relevant for organizations. This introductory section explains key concepts such as nature, biodiversity, and ecosystem services, and examines the drivers of biodiversity loss. It also highlights key global commitments to halt and reverse biodiversity loss, as well as reporting standards and frameworks shaping nature-related disclosures.

In this part, you'll learn how business activities depend on and impact nature across direct operations and wider value chains. These dependencies and impacts, in turn, give rise to nature-related risks and opportunities. Then, you will dive into key approaches for managing these impacts, including the mitigation hierarchy and circular strategies.

In this part, you'll explore how organizations assess, disclose, and respond to nature-related issues in practice. This final section explains key reporting approaches and explores how nature considerations can inform strategy, impact and risk management, and decision-making.

Who is this course designed for?

This course is designed for sustainability practitioners interested in nature-related reporting. It is also relevant to other stakeholders, such as investors, policymakers, and civil society representatives who are interested in understanding how organizations interact with nature and how these interactions can be reported.

What will you achieve?

When you have completed this course, you will be able to:

Explain what is meant by nature and biodiversity in the context of sustainability reporting, and why biodiversity loss matters for organizations, including its links to ecosystem services and long-term resilience.

Identify the main drivers of biodiversity loss and understand how global commitments, such as the Kunming–Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, are increasing expectations for transparency and action to address biodiversity loss.

Explain how business activities depend on and impact nature across direct operations and wider value chains, and how these dependencies and impacts give rise to nature-related risks and opportunities.

Describe key approaches for managing nature-related impacts, including applying the mitigation hierarchy and integrating circularity to address waste and pollution at their source.

Explain how organizations assess, disclose, and respond to nature-related issues, including the complementary roles of the GRI Standards and the TNFD recommendations.

Pre-requisites

There are no pre-requisites for this course

Nature Reporting Fundamentals

99.00 €

1 h

english

Certificate of completion

CEUs: 1

CPD hours: N/A

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There are no pre-requisites for this course