Nature-positive metrics set for real-world testing

These will be piloted with major companies across mining, manufacturing, energy, forestry, finance and agriculture.

Members of the Nature Positive Initiative will work with companies to simplify how businesses report on their impact on nature.

More than 600 existing metrics have been audited by an alliance of 27 nature conservationists, sustainable business platforms, standard-setting organisations, academics, Indigenous and local government networks. The new set of metrics balance scientific credibility with practical applicability.

‘As business is today the main source of negative impacts on nature, we need metrics that allow companies and investors to assess nature impacts, dependencies, risks and opportunities, and inform adequate actions leading to credible nature-positive outcomes and contributions for stronger accountability as well as clearer recognition,’ says Marco Lambertini, Convener of the Nature Positive Initiative.

Lambertini said the pilot will allow companies to ‘apply a consistent set of metrics that will help to track whether their actions are credibly contributing to improving the state of nature’.

The draft metrics include ecosystem and species indicators and will be finalised for widespread adoption in 2026, with the pilot running from May through to November 2025.