Land managers

Users might include agricultural, fisheries and forestry primary producers, as well as companies in any other sectors involving significant landholdings, such as energy, telecommunications and mining. Natural capital is typically relevant to these users due to their ownership of natural capital assets, such as land, as well as through their direct (and potentially also indirect) operational impacts and dependencies on nature.

Benefits

Using consistent metrics from the Catalogue can support land managers to:

  • better manage their own natural capital assets
  • better manage their direct (and possibly also indirect) nature-related impacts and dependencies, and the associated nature-related risks and opportunities arising from these
  • make use of environmental data from public or private environmental data service providers to supplement their own data
  • report (if desired) on the state of their natural capital assets and flows of ecosystem services in accordance with the United Nations SEEA standard
  • report (if desired) on their nature-related impacts, dependencies, risks and opportunities in accordance with frameworks such as the recommendations of the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD), International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) standards, Australian Agricultural Sustainability Framework (AASF) or Science Based Targets for Nature (SBTN).