This first session will explore how businesses can conduct a LEAP integrated assessment, drawing on guidance developed by the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD). Beginning with the initial scoping phase, the session will explore how businesses can build the internal business case for action on nature before working through the four stages of LEAP:
- Locate – identify your interfaces with nature;
- Evaluate – understand your dependencies and impacts on nature;
- Assess – determine the resulting nature-related risks and opportunities;
- Prepare – determine how the organisation should respond and report.
The session will take a highly practical approach, drawing on TNFD's sector-specific guidance for the Apparel, Accessories & Footwear sector and using illustrative examples to demonstrate how the approach can be applied in practice. Alongside expert guidance, members will have an opportunity for facilitated peer-to-peer discussion around common challenges, approaches and lessons learned.
By the end of the session, participants should:
- Build familiarity with the TNFD LEAP approach and the tools and resources available to support implementation.
- Better understand how LEAP can be applied within the fashion and textile sector.
- Gain insight into current market practice and real-world examples.
- Learn from the experiences and approaches of sector peers.
- Identify practical next steps for their own organisation.
- Build connections with businesses facing similar challenges and identify potential opportunities for collaboration.
Green Finance Institute
The Green Finance Institute (GFI) works at the intersection of the public and private sectors to identify and unlock barriers to investment in the transition towards a greener economy. GFI's nature work supports the development of approaches that help businesses and financial institutions better understand nature-related dependencies, impacts, risks and opportunities and translate these into decision-making.
Within the UKFT Nature Working Group, GFI will lead the first two sessions, supporting members to understand and practically apply the TNFD LEAP approach before establishing the foundations for nature-related measurement through metrics and data.
OUR PROGRAMME: ASSES → MEASURE → ACT
The Nature Working Group (NWG) will initially run across four dedicated sessions, taking members through a practical progression from understanding and assessment, through two stages of measurement, to practical action: To support members on this journey, UKFT has established the UKFT Nature Working Group, in partnership with the Green Finance Institute (GFI) and Biodiversify.
01 — ASSESS: Understand your relationship with nature
Use the TNFD LEAP approach to identify where your business and value chain interact with nature and begin assessing dependencies, impacts, risks and opportunities.
02 — MEASURE: Understand what to measure
Part 1 – Metrics & Data
Explore TNFD's metrics architecture, what businesses are currently measuring and how existing sustainability and supply-chain data can provide a realistic starting point for nature-related measurement.
03 — MEASURE: Put data and tools into practice
Part 2 – Tools & Application
Build on the foundations established in previous sessions by exploring practical, freely available tools that can help businesses investigate nature-related risks, dependencies and impacts across sourcing locations, materials and supply chains, and turn data into useful insights for assessment and decision-making.
04 — ACT: Turn insight into implementation
Bring together the learning from across the programme and translate assessment, data and insights into prioritised actions, targets, governance and a practical nature roadmap.
This registration is for members who have enrolled in the Nature Working Group. If you have not yet enrolled but would like to participate, please contact sustainability@ukft.org.
As this is an interactive working group delivered across four sessions, recordings will only be shared with enrolled participants.
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