Biodiversity Frameworks

What other frameworks support biodiversity targets?
Published

September 2, 2024

Modified

September 2, 2024

Framework Are you using it? Known strengths of this framework Known weaknesses of this framework
Science-Based Targets Network (SBTN) Yes (6 votes)
  • Meant to serve as gold standard best practice
  • Landscape engagement target is also relevant and important for producers and Field to Market, not just the no conversion target
  • SBTN is developing methods for companies to set targets that reduce negative and increase positive impacts on biodiversity. They will soon release a detailed analysis of biodiversity coverage in the first science-based targets for nature, guiding future SBTN methods.
  • Only official guidance that is cross-commodity and global on land use
  • Only guidance that makes an effort to include biodiversity explicitly in targets
  • Landscape engagement targets takes into account the social, ecological, other needs unique to a place.

  • Still in development

  • Target setting is onerous and some targets are very ambitious

  • Unlike GHGs, quantitative impact (what to measure) is regional
Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) Yes (4 votes)
  • One key important thought is that even though the US is not a member to the CBD, the alignment of action with local and national priorities is key. Biodiversity priorities and appropriate actions are place-based and do not exist in a vacuum.
  • Unclear what implications are for corporations
World Council Business for Sustainable Development + One Planet Business for Biodiversity Yes (2 votes)

  • These seem build with a sense of what will be practical for farm-level users as well as for corporates.

  • Good at a high level
  • Details of tools that will be used and more granular metrics
  • Guidance still under development and not public
SAI Platform - Regenerating Together Yes (2 votes)
  • Good at a high level

  • Details of tools that will be used and more granular metrics

  • I don’t use any of these, but I don’t like the SAI idea of forcing on-site visits. Totally impractical and expensive. We should be trusting farmers to do the right thing.
Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) Yes (4 votes)

  • This one has gone through lots of corporate and private sector review, more than SBTN. It’s also cross-sector. And it’s aligned with EU CSRD

  • Will feed into ISSB, GRI, CDP and regulatory disclosure frameworks.

  • TFND is consistent with the approach of the TCFD and the ISSB’s IFRS Standards

There are challenges with collecting some of the metrics within value chains.

Can be challenging to see how biodiversity fits in