TNFD UK Consultation Group
TNFD: Getting Started with Data and Metrics
TNFD: Getting Started with Data and Metrics
How are different sectors across the UK getting started with TNFD data and metrics?
TNFD: Getting Started with Data and Metrics looks at how major UK businesses across five sectors are implementing TNFD guidance on metrics and incorporating these into decision-making processes.
It’s a ‘how to’ guide intended for any UK business considering constructing TNFD-aligned metrics, or exploring how to prepare their own TNFD-aligned disclosure, and wondering how others have approached the process.
TNFD-aligned metrics aim to measure and communicate how businesses impact and depend on nature, and how they are exposed to nature-related risks and opportunities. They provide a structured, decision-useful basis for organisations to integrate nature considerations into enterprise risk management and strategic planning processes, while also providing comparable and consistent information in disclosures to capital providers and other stakeholders.
For each of asset management; banking; built environment; retail, food, and hospitality; and water utilities, this short paper identifies which metrics businesses are already reporting, and answers the following questions:
- What business decisions can I use these metrics to inform?
- What are the key challenges I might face when constructing this metric?
- What practical approaches can I take to collect the necessary data?
The sector overviews summarise findings from sectoral working group sessions held with a selection of major UK businesses within each sector in Q4 2025. Across the groups, there was a range of familiarity with TNFD from those who were just starting out, to those who were piloting the guidance, to those that had already or planned to disclose.
How to use this page:
How to use the report:
- Review the sector section most relevant to your business.
- Review the full list of metrics that UK companies in the sector are intending to or already reporting.
- Use the ‘What business decisions are informed by these metrics’ section to understand the different internal and external use cases for metrics to draw inspiration from sector peers on how your business can use metrics to inform business activities.
- Use the ‘What are the key challenges for using the metrics’ section to understand what issues businesses are grappling with relating to data and metrics.
- Use the ‘How are businesses approaching data collection’ section to understand how businesses are getting started and addressing data challenges.
- Look at the example reports included to see how data and metrics are used by peers in your sector.
- Review any other sectors in your value chain to understand how your broader business ecosystem is addressing TNFD data and metrics.
- Review additional guidance from the TNFD Secretariat which discusses data and metrics:
- The Recommendations: establishes the metrics and targets pillar of the TNFD framework, defining what organisations are expected to disclose on nature-related metrics; articulates the metrics architecture; sets out core and additional global disclosure indicators and metrics for nature-related dependencies and impacts, risks and opportunities, and responses to nature-related issues.
- Guidance on the identification and assessment of nature-related issues: the LEAP approach: explains how to generate metrics by guiding organisations through the Locate, Evaluate, Assess and Prepare (LEAP) process; identifies types of data and assessment metrics used internally at each stage; provides suggested assessment metrics and proxies to support prioritisation; and clarifies the distinction between internal assessment metrics and external disclosure metrics.
- Sector guidance: supplements the LEAP guidance; provides clarity on application of global disclosure indicators and metrics for the sector; identifies which nature-related metrics are most material by sector, providing core and additional sector metrics; and highlights data challenges and common approaches within each sector.
- Recommendations for upgrading the nature data value chain for market participants: addresses the enabling data infrastructure needed for metrics; sets out eight recommendations to improve the quality, accessibility and consistency of nature-related data used in metrics.
Interested companies should also review the dedicated page for Getting started with the TNFD Recommendations on the TNFD website, which includes a practical guide and suite of resources to help organisations get started with the adoption of the TNFD recommendations.
