Understanding your organisation’s relationship with nature is essential under the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD). How your activities, operations, or value chain depend on or impact natural systems, biodiversity, and ecosystems determines whether you must disclose biodiversity-related information.
CSRD reporting follows the European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS), with ESRS E4 specifically addressing biodiversity and ecosystems. With the Earth Blox CSRD ESRS E4 Biodiversity: Rapid Materiality Check, you can quickly assess whether an organisation operates in ecologically sensitive areas and identify a material relationship with nature.
The workflow aligns with the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) Locate stage (L4) of the LEAP approach, ensuring consistency between frameworks. This allows your organisation to analyse once but report twice, streamlining efforts across CSRD and TNFD reporting.
By analysing key ecosystem indicators, it provides a sensitivity score from 0 to 100%, where 100% signals a high likelihood of operating in an ecologically sensitive location due to one or more of the following factors as defined by the TNFD:
- Areas important for biodiversity, such as habitats for key species
- Regions of high ecosystem integrity
- Regions with a rapid decline in ecosystem integrity
- Areas facing significant physical water risks
- Locations critical for ecosystem services, including those benefiting Indigenous Peoples, local communities, and other stakeholders
Conducting materiality assessments for CSRD
If your assessment results in a high sensitivity score, you should conduct a full materiality assessment. Earth Blox gives you access to all the nature data required to calculate the necessary metrics for CSRD disclosures. The Earth Blox CSRD package brings nature data from leading providers like IBAT, Resolve Ecoregions, and UNEP into plug-and-play workflows using trusted methodologies that output the results in minutes.
This phased approach to CSRD saves time and resources while ensuring your organisation meets compliance requirements.
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Streamline nature and climate reporting with Earth Blox packages
Tackling complex nature and climate reporting and compliance tasks doesn’t have to be overwhelming. Earth Blox packages are purpose-built to make biodiversity assessments, due diligence on nature-based solutions (NbS), and climate risk reporting faster and more efficient.
Earth Blox packages give your business:
- Science-backed methodologies: Our workflows align with leading frameworks like TNFD and CSRD, so you can trust your analysis meets industry standards.
- Authoritative data sources: Access globally recognised premium and open-access datasets covering biodiversity, climate risks, land use, and more to provide a comprehensive view of your impact.
- Transparency and customisation: Full visibility and the ability to customise every stage of your analysis ensures confidence in your results and supports audit and compliance needs.
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With Earth Blox, complex geospatial analysis becomes accessible to everyone – no code or technical expertise is required. Whether you’re assessing ecologically sensitive areas, evaluating nature-based solutions, or addressing regulatory compliance, our ready-made packages help you make informed decisions with speed and accuracy.
Ready to assess your organisation’s biodiversity impact? Start with the Earth Blox CSRD ESRS E4 Biodiversity: Rapid Materiality Check today and set a strong foundation for sustainable reporting. Get started here.