Topic Standard for Biodiversity
GRI 101: Biodiversity 2024
On 25 January 2024, a major revision to the GRI Biodiversity was published. GRI 101: Biodiversity 2024 updates, expands, and replaces GRI 304: Biodiversity 2016. The Standard, aligned with the goals and targets of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, helps organizations to better understand which decisions and business practices lead to biodiversity loss, where in their value chain impacts occur, and how they can be managed.
GRI at Biodiversity COP 16: Join our events and activities in Cali, Colombia
With the aim of driving global commitments to protect nature and ensure the sustainable use of resources, COP16 will bring together diverse stakeholders from around the world, including governments, civil society, businesses, financial institutions and academia. GRI actions will be focused on encouraging organizational transparency through GRI 101, the new Topic Standard for Biodiversity.
Register for upcoming GRI hosted events:
- Innovations in transparency and reporting on biodiversity: Paving the way for sustainable futures (30 October, Marriott Hotel Cali, 13:30 – 20:30 UTC-5): This session from GRI and S&P Global will share how impact reporting contributes to halting biodiversity loss; how companies can implement GRI 101 to disclose their impacts on nature; and how GRI is partnering with other standard setters to provide a seamless reporting experience.
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- Leaving no-one behind: How just transition and nature-positive impacts intersect: (24 October, Blue Zone - Nature Positive Pavilion, 10:30 – 11:30 UTC-5): A multi-stakeholder panel discussion on achieving an inclusive and equitable transition to a nature-positive economy, led by Andrea Pradilla, Director of GRI Latin America.
- Opportunity or challenge? How can digitalization transform biodiversity reporting? (25 October, Blue Zone - Nature Positive Pavilion, 15:30 pm - 16:30 UTC-5): This session, led by GRI Interim CEO Cristina Gil White, will assess the current state of play and potential new frontiers for biodiversity reporting, looking at how digital transformation will impact reporting in the next five to ten years, and how we can ensure that changes are positive.
- How corporate transparency helps protect biodiversity (27 October, Blue Zone - Nature Positive Pavilion, 12:00 – 13:00 UTC-5): In this interactive session led by GRI technical experts Harold Pauwels (Director Standards) and Elodie Chene (Senior Manager Standards), we will hear from companies that piloted GRI 101, their experiences with data collection and how the information can inform their company’s strategy.
- (Session in Spanish): How corporate transparency helps protect biodiversity (27 October, Blue Zone - Nature Positive Pavillion, 13:00 - 14:00 pm UTC-5): This event, led by Andrea Pradilla and Lina Camargo of GRI Latin America, will look at the reporting experiences of regional companies that have piloted the GRI Biodiversity Standards.
Interoperability mapping between GRI and TNFD
In July 2024, GRI and the TNFD published a joint interoperability mapping to help reporters better understand the correspondence between the GRI Standards and the TNFD Disclosure Recommendations, metrics and sector guidance.
The mapping consists of:
- an accompanying guidance, which provides insights, clarifications and instructions on the TNFD-GRI interoperability mapping.
- table of correspondences between the TNFD Disclosure Recommendations and metrics and the disclosures of the GRI Standards.
The importance of this standard
The alarming decline in biodiversity in the last decades threatens to bring disastrous consequences to the environment and people, including triggering knock-on effects on climate change.
The United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) adopted the 'post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework' in 2022, which has defined collective commitments to reverse the loss of biodiversity for all relevant stakeholders, including government, companies, civil society, and investment institutions.
Both governments and companies are being called upon to demonstrate accountability in responding to the biodiversity crisis by conserving and sustainably using biodiversity. The revision of GRI 304: Biodiversity 2016 reflected global best practice on biodiversity management to support companies in addressing their impacts.
Project overview
Q4 2021
Project commencement & formation of Technical Committee
Q4 2021 - Q3 2022
Development of exposure draft
Q4 2022
Public comment period
Q1 - Q2 2023
Consideration of public comment and revision
Q1 2024
Release of revised Standard
Related resources
| GRI Topic Standard Project for Biodiversity–Exposure draft | file | 02 Dec 2022 | English | 1.1 MB | |
| GRI Topic Standard: Biodiversity Exposure draft public comment questionnaire | file | 02 Dec 2022 | English | 181 KB | |
| Biodiversity Technical Committee member biographies | file | 15 Nov 2021 | English | 522 KB | |
| Biodiversity Technical Committee - terms of reference | file | 15 Nov 2021 | English | 337 KB | |
| Topic Standard Project for Biodiversity - final project proposal | file | 01 Dec 2021 | English | 137 KB | |
| GRI Topic Standards project for Biodiversity Public comment feedback | file | 26 Apr 2023 | English | 183 KB | |
| GRI Topic Standard Project for Biodiversity - Re-exposure draft of Disclosure on Access and benefit-sharing | file | 24 Jul 2023 | English | 313 KB | |
| GRI Topic Standard Project for Biodiversity Disclosure ABS Draft questionnaire | file | 24 Jul 2023 | English | 130 KB | |
| GRI Topic Standards project for Biodiversity Re Exposure Disclosure 304 7 Access And Benefit Sharing Public Comment Feedback | file | 22 Sep 2023 | English | 72 KB | |
| GRI 101: Biodiversity 2024 Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) | file | 01 Oct 2024 | English | 234 KB |
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