Commitment 1.3 - Ecosystems

Available business disclosure: For each operational site owned, leased, managed in, or adjacent to, protected areas and areas of high biodiversity value outside protected areas, the following information: 

i. Geographic location; 

ii. Subsurface and underground land that may be owned, leased, or managed by the organization; 

iii. Position in relation to the protected area (in the area, adjacent to, or containing portions of the protected area) or the high biodiversity value area outside protected areas; 

iv. Type of operation (office, manufacturing or production, or extractive); 

v. Size of operational site in km2 (or another unit, if appropriate); 

vi. Biodiversity value characterized by the attribute of the protected area or area of high biodiversity value outside the protected area (terrestrial, freshwater, or maritime ecosystem); 

vii. Biodiversity value characterized by listing of protected status (such as IUCN Protected Area Management Categories, Ramsar Convention, national legislation). 

Unit: Km2, number of species, 

Source: GRI Standard 304-1 

Available business disclosure: Nature of significant direct and indirect impacts on biodiversity with reference to one or more of the following: 

i. Construction or use of manufacturing plants, mines, and transport infrastructure; 

ii. Pollution (introduction of substances that do not naturally occur in the habitat from point and non-point sources); 

iii. Introduction of invasive species, pests, and pathogens; 

iv. Reduction of species; 

v. Habitat conversion; 

vi. Changes in ecological processes outside the natural range of variation (such as salinity or changes in groundwater level). 

Unit: N/A   

Source: GRI Standard 304-2 

Available business disclosure: Significant direct and indirect positive and negative impacts with reference to the   following: 

i. Species affected; 

ii. Extent of areas impacted; 

iii. Duration of impacts; 

iv. Reversibility or irreversibility of the impacts. 

Unit: N/A   

Source: GRI Standard 304-2 

Available business disclosure: Water bodies and related habitats that are significantly affected by water discharges and/or runoff, including information on: 

i. The size of the water body and related habitat; 

ii. Whether the water body and related habitat is designated as a nationally or internationally protected area; 

iii. The biodiversity value, such as total number of protected species. 

Unit: Km2, number of species and other descriptive information 

Source: GRI Standard 306-5 

Available business disclosure: Total number of IUCN Red List species and national conservation list species with   habitats in areas affected by the operations of the organization, by level of extinction risk: 

i. Critically endangered; 

ii. Endangered; 

iii. Vulnerable; 

iv. Near threatened; 

v. Least concern. 

Unit: Number   

Source: GRI Standard 304-4 

Available business disclosure: Trends in population and extinction risk of utilized species, including species in trade. 

Unit: N/A   

Source: Quick guide to the Aichi Biodiversity Targets 

Available business disclosure: Trends in Ecological Footprint and/or related concepts. 

Unit: N/A   

Source: Quick guide to the Aichi Biodiversity Targets 

Available business disclosure: Ecological limits assessed in terms of sustainable production and consumption. 

Unit: N/A   

Source: Quick guide to the Aichi Biodiversity Targets 

Available business disclosure: Trends in extent to which biodiversity and ecosystem service values are incorporated   into organizational accounting and reporting. 

Unit: N/A   

Source: Quick guide to the Aichi Biodiversity Targets 

Available business disclosure: Size and location of all habitat areas protected or restored, and whether the success of the restoration measure was or is approved by independent external professionals. 

Unit: Km2   

Source: GRI Standard 304-3 

Available business disclosure: Whether partnerships exist with third parties to protect or restore habitat areas   distinct from where the organization has overseen and implemented restoration or protection measures. 

Unit: N/A   

Source: GRI Standard 304-3