Stewardship Council

TNFD’s founding partners and major funders. The Council upholds the seven principles guiding the work of the Taskforce.

The Stewardship Council represents the four founding partners of the TNFD and other government and philanthropic entities that provide the financial resources needed to run the Taskforce. The primary responsibility of the Council is to uphold the seven principles guiding the work of the Taskforce as outlined in the 2021 Nature in Scope report upon which the TNFD was launched:

  • Market Usability: Develop frameworks directly useful and valuable to market reporters and users, notably corporations and financial institutions, as well as policy and other actors.
  • Science-based: Follow a scientifically anchored approach, incorporate well established and emerging scientific evidence and aim to incorporate other existing science-based initiatives.
  • Nature-related Risks: Address nature-related risks that include immediate, material financial risks as well as nature dependencies and impacts and related organisational and societal risks.
  • Purpose-driven: Be purpose driven and actively target reducing risks and increasing nature-positive action by using the minimum required level of granularity to ensure achievement of the TNFD goal.
  • Integrated and Adaptive: Build effective measurement and reporting frameworks that can be integrated into and enhance existing disclosures and standards. Account for and be adaptive to changes in national and international policy commitments, standards and market conditions.
  • Climate-Nature Nexus: Employ an integrated approach to climate- and nature-related risks, scaling up finance for nature-based solutions.
  • Globally Inclusive: Ensure the framework and approach is relevant, just, valuable, accessible and affordable worldwide, including emerging and developed markets.
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The four founding partners of the TNFD are:

  • Global Canopy
  • United Nations Development Program (UNDP)
  • United Nations Environment Program Finance Initiative (UNEP-FI)
  • WWF
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Current funding partners of the TNFD who are also members of the Stewardship Council are:

  • Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF)
  • Global Environment Facility (GEF)
  • Government of Germany – The Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection; International Climate Initiative (IKI)
  • Macdoch Foundation
  • Government of the Netherlands – Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Safety
  • Government of Norway – Norway’s International Climate and Forest Initiative (NICFI)
  • Government of Switzerland – Federal Office of the Environment (FOEN) and the Swiss Federal Department of Finance (FDF) State Secretariat for International Finance (SIF)
  • Government of United Kingdom – Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA)
  • Government of the United States of America – USAID.

Since its inception in mid 2021, the TNFD has also benefitted from financial and/or pro bono support from the Governments of Australia and France.

The Taskforce is administratively supported and hosted by the Green Finance Institute (GFI) and operates as GFI PMO Ltd. with company registration number 13559729, and has its registered address at International House, 24 Holborn Viaduct, London, United Kingdom, EC1A 2BN.