TNFD·Decision guide·Reporting boundaries
TNFD for real estate and infrastructure should be built around an asset and project register that preserves location, lifecycle stage, ownership and operational control. The assessment should cover land-use change, water, ecosystem services, construction materials, pollution, urban heat and flood resilience, tenant or operator activities, and the development pipeline.
Helps you decideWhich assets, projects, materials and tenant-controlled activities create material nature dependencies, impacts, risks and opportunities over the lifecycle?
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TNFD·Decision guide·Reporting boundaries
The Locate phase converts a broad view of the business into a spatially explicit set of assessment locations. Start by defining the span of sectors, activities, products, commodities and value chains; screen where dependencies and impacts may be moderate or high; geolocate those interfaces at the best defensible precision; and overlay sensitive-location criteria.
Helps you decideWhere should the organisation Evaluate dependencies and impacts in detail?
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TNFD·Decision guide·Reporting boundaries
For an insurer, TNFD implementation should connect the real-economy activities and locations behind policies and investments to dependencies, impacts, risks and opportunities. The entity-level assessment normally distinguishes underwriting, investments and own operations, then reconciles them through shared governance, data confidence, scenario analysis and financial-effect pathways.
Helps you decideWhich insured and invested activities, locations and ecosystem dependencies create material DIROs, and how should they affect risk appetite, products, pricing, capital allocation and disclosure?
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TNFD·Decision guide·Reporting boundaries
For mining, energy and heavy industry, TNFD assessment should begin with sites and projects but extend beyond the legal boundary to the area of influence, shared water basin or landscape, cumulative impacts, affected communities and material value chains. The organisation should consider the full lifecycle from exploration or site selection through construction, operation, closure and post-closure.
Helps you decideHow should the organisation assess each site and project across its area of influence, shared basin or landscape, value chain and full lifecycle?
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TNFD·Decision guide·Reporting boundaries
Asset managers and owners should use portfolio screening to direct investment and stewardship work, not to label holdings automatically. A practical TNFD process maps assets under management or owned assets by issuer, sector, activity, asset class and, where available, operating location.
Helps you decideHow do hotspots change research, engagement, voting, allocation, products or risk controls?
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TNFD·Decision guide·Reporting boundaries
TNFD work in food and agriculture should be organised around commodities and their places of production, not procurement spend alone. The assessment needs to identify critical dependencies on water, fertile soil, pollination, climate regulation and agrobiodiversity, while also assessing land-use change, water use, pollution, resource extraction, climate and invasive-species pathways.
Helps you decideWhich commodities and origins create the most significant nature dependencies, impacts, risks and opportunities, and what level of traceability and engagement is proportionate?
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