It involved a survey of over 200 accountancy professionals, interviews with CFOs and senior management from 8 major companies, a disclosure survey of corporate reporting by 40 organisations in specific sectors, and desk based research into relevant literature and work in the field.
- 60 percent of respondents agreed that the natural world was important to their business.
- More than half of the respondents had included natural capital issues in their company’s business risk evaluations at some point.
- Nearly half (49 percent) of respondents identified natural capital as a material issue for their business and linked it to operational, regulatory, reputational and financial risks.