Exploring Natural Capital Opportunities, Risks and Exposure

  • Key tool for TNFD's LEAP
  • ENCORE - A key tool for TNFD's LEAP approach

    ENCORE can help financial institutions take their first steps towards understanding their dependencies and impacts on nature. Join 4,000 registered users who already use the tool.

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  • Explore hotspots of natural capital depletion using the map
  • Explore hotspots of natural capital depletion using the map

    Understand risks arising from the depletion of natural capital, and the dependencies and impacts of business activities, by exploring spatial data.

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  • ENCORE helps you understand how the economy is exposed to natural capital-related risks

    Visualise how the economy depends and impacts on nature, and how environmental change can create risks for businesses.

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Ecosystem services

Ecosystem services are the links between nature and business. Each of these services represents a benefit that nature provides to enable or facilitate business production processes. Click here to start exploring the many different ways in which nature supports the economy.

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Natural capital

Natural capital encompasses the specific elements within nature that provide the goods and services that the economy depends on. Click here to start exploring how natural capital underpins business operations.

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Mechanisms of change in state

Mechanisms of change in state cause change in state of ecosystems and their components. Click here to start exploring how mechanisms affect ecosystem services upon which businesses depend.

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Pressures

Pressures are inputs to, or outputs from, economic activities, which trigger the mechanisms causing change in state of nature. Some initiatives, such as TNFD or the Natural Capital Protocol, refer to these as impact drivers. See the full list by clicking the link below.

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