Nature Positive Corporate Assessment Guide for Financial Institutions 2025

Sector priority actions for 16 sectors FIGURE 9 Agri-food Avoid the degradation – and accelerate the regeneration – of land and ecosystems. Reduce freshwater use. Avoid, reduce and remove GHG emissions across the entire value chain. Promote circularity and innovate products, practices and technologies. Collaborate, educate, support and advocate across your supply chain. Built environment Avoid further terrestrial, freshwater and marine habitat conversion. Prioritize re-use and retrofitting over demolition. Select materials with nature in mind and invest in circularity. Apply nature-based solutions. Chemicals Increase efficiency in the manufacturing process and expand the use of renewable energy to reduce GHG. Improve water stewardship by establishing trust, water management strategies and practices, remediating water stress in supply chains and replenishing watersheds. Source responsibly, improve supply chain traceability and transparency, and explore switching to sustainably sourced bio-based or recyclable materials. Support nature conservation and restoration, and advocate for policy and regulatory changes that protect nature. Innovate product portfolios, expand circularity and improve customer education on product use and disposal.Energy Embrace decarbonization to mitigate climate impacts. Manage water resources sustainably. Conserve and restore ecosystems and habitats. Commit to circular models. Partner and advocate beyond the value chain. Financial services Embrace decarbonization to mitigate climate impacts. Manage water resources sustainably. Conserve and restore ecosystems and habitats. Commit to circular models. Partner and advocate beyond the value chain.Fashion and apparel Avoid and reduce the use of high-impact or uncertified materials. Avoid and reduce the use of hazardous chemicals across supply chain. Avoid and reduce freshwater use through sustainable water management. Restore degraded land and move towards regenerative agricultural practices. Transform business model and build for circularity.Construction materials – cement and concrete Improve water management across the value chain. Adopt technologies and manufacturing practices to reduce GHG and airborne emissions. Continue and strengthen reclamation and rehabilitation approaches as well as biodiversity management of quarries, and improve land stewardship on all occupied land. Expand circularity efforts across the value chain. Innovate to offer products that support the transition to nature positive. Automotive Avoid and reduce impacts from operations. Avoid and reduce impacts from materials. Transform product offering. Conserve and restore nature with Indigenous Peoples and local communities. Drive cross-sector collaboration on standards and transparency, and infrastructure and policy. Avoid Reduce Transform Restore and regenerate Mapping to AR3T hierarchy Nature Positive: Corporate Assessment Guide for Financial Institutions 32