In this Catalogue, a metric is something you can measure that tells you something useful about nature, or about an organisation’s interactions with nature. More generic definitions include a “system or standard of measurement” (TNFD, 2023) or “a set of figures or statistics that measure results” (OED).

TNFD (2023, p. 128) , Oxford English Dictionary



In this Catalogue, a method is a particular procedure for measuring a metric. The method can be solely for a specific metric, or part of a suite of procedures for different metrics. A more generic definition is “a particular procedure for accomplishing or approaching something, especially a systematic or established one” (OED).

Oxford English Dictionary