CDP Monitoring of the Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) Target 15.1

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CDP’s Monitoring of Target 15.1 highlights – at a country level – the publicly disclosing organizations that have established processes to identify, assess and manage their nature-related risks, dependencies and impacts.

It supports parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), tracking and reporting their national progress towards ensuring that large transnational companies and financial institutions regularly monitor, assess and transparently disclose their risks, dependencies and impacts on biodiversity.

This work provides public access to the largest assessment on Target 15.1 progress to date.

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By reporting on their risks, dependencies and impacts, companies and financial institutions help build a clearer understanding of how their operations, supply chains, value chains and portfolios interact with biodiversity. This information is invaluable for designing and implementing strategies to reduce negative impacts on biodiversity over time and, ultimately, to halt and reverse biodiversity loss – the core aim of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework’s Target 15.

Astrid Schomaker

Executive Secretary, Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)

While there are a number of important disclosure initiatives, there has as yet not been a comprehensive overview of how these organizations disclose information on biodiversity-related issues. CDP is addressing this critical gap by surfacing and analyzing data from a large number of countries, providing the most comprehensive and comparable global assessment of corporate and financial disclosure to date.

Astrid Schomaker

Executive Secretary, Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)

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CDP surfaces robust and comparable data from global industry. This data is essential to government and regulatory efforts in tracking and monitoring the progress of their economies against national and international commitments, ensuring market readiness and competitiveness in their jurisdictions. This is the data that will power the transition, ensuring that together, we build a sustainable future which drives economic growth, innovation and job creation.

By collaborating with CDP, policymakers and financial regulators can harness the power of data to drive environmental transparency and action from corporates and sub-national jurisdictions (cities, states and regions).

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This work surfaces comparable data to track the Target 15.1 Headline Indicator: Number of companies disclosing their biodiversity-related risks, dependencies and impacts.

The sample used for this work is a subset of responses submitted through CDP’s full corporate questionnaire in 2024 and comprises 5,210 organizations. The sample consists of organizations that:

disclosed on question 2.2.2; and
disclosed on at least one of the nature-related CDP themes, namely forests, water and biodiversity.

Company responses are voluntary and driven by requests for disclosure from large buyers and capital market actors, as well as companies who disclose without having received an official request.

The methodology applied to assess the Target 15.1 Headline Indicator builds on question 2.2.2 in the 2024 CDP full corporate questionnaire that is dependent on a positive response to questions 2.2 and 2.2.1.

Question 2.2.2 requests organizations to disclose details of their processes for identifying, assessing and managing environmental dependencies, impacts, risks and/or opportunities. Per nature-related theme, it was assessed whether a company has such a process that covers dependencies, impacts and risks. Having such a process for at least one nature-related theme and disclosing this information publicly is categorized as having achieved the Target 15.1 Headline Indicator.

This work will be updated with each disclosure cycle through to 2030, enabling interested stakeholders to track, assess and report on progress over time.

The CDP platform and questionnaire allow for further breakdown of the responses, by assessing the extent of the supply- and value chain stages covered by the processes, types and frequencies of such assessment, and much more. To learn more about this, please reach out to: policy@cdp.net.

CDP has developed a separate questionnaire for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) to increase disclosure by offering a simplified, less resource-intensive version of our environmental disclosure process. This simplified format allows qualified SMEs – based on employee count and revenue thresholds – to provide relevant information in a clear structure, making CDP reporting more accessible for smaller businesses while still managing their environmental impact.

While the data surfaced through the CDP SME questionnaire isn’t aligned with the Target 15.1 Headline Indicator, it can supplement CDP data derived from the 2024 full corporate questionnaire. The sample used for this work is a subset of responses submitted through CDP’s SME questionnaire in 2024 and comprises 5,113 organizations. It comprises organizations that:

disclosed publicly on question 15.1 in the 2024 SME questionnaire; and
have an annual revenue below US$250 million.

The assessment highlights organizations that have an existing process for identifying, assessing and managing environmental risks and opportunities, without further specifying the environmental themes covered in such a process.

Organizations disclosing through CDP can decide to disclose publicly or non-publicly.

While the GBF Target 15.1 calls for transparent – and thus public – disclosure, non-public submissions can complement the picture, and provide a more comprehensive understanding of initial progress towards the target. For this reason, CDP’s assessment also provides country-level aggregated information on non-public disclosers against question 2.2.2 of the CDP full corporate and SME questionnaires in 2024.

Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or CINEA. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.

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