ACT-D guides businesses through the various tools, frameworks and initiatives available in the market to support them in assessing their relationships with nature, committing to action and target setting, transforming their practices and disclosing nature-related information.
ACT-D stands for Assess, Commit, Transform and Disclose. It builds on existing action frameworks and guidance, including the Natural Capital Protocol, Science Based Targets for Nature’s Initial Guidance for Business, World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) Building Blocks For ‘What Nature Positive Means For Business’, Business for Nature’s Steps To Becoming Nature Positive, Task Force for Nature Related Disclosures (TNFD) Beta Framework.
The high-level business actions on nature were developed in a collaboration by leading organizations, including the Capitals Coalition, Business for Nature, WBCSD, TNFD, Science Based Targets Network, World Economic Forum and WWF.