The Natural Capital Finance Alliance (NCFA) is the former name of a partnership between Global Canopy, the UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI), and the UN Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), now called the Encore Partnership. Together, they developed a free online tool to help organizations understand their environmental impacts—ENCORE.

This website is no longer active (not updated), but you can follow the latest news on the official pages:

- ENCORE (www.encorenature.org)
- Global Canopy (www.globalcanopy.org)
- UNEP FI (www.unepfi.org)
- UNEP-WCMC (www.unep-wcmc.org)
  • Natural Capital Declaration
  • Natural Capital Declaration
  • Natural Capital Declaration
  • Natural Capital Declaration
  • Natural Capital Declaration
  • Natural Capital Declaration

NCD Roadmap and Business Plan

The NCD Roadmap

 

To help achieve the Declaration’s aims, signatories have developed an NCD Roadmap paper. The core objective of the NCD Roadmap  is to provide financial institutions that have signed the NCD with the means (tools, metrics, business case) to integrate natural capital considerations in all relevant asset classes and financial products, and to work towards their inclusion in financial accounting, disclosure and reporting.

 

The NCD Roadmap was launched  May 2013 to mark the start of Phase 2 of the NCD to support implementation of the four NCD commitments by financial institutions. This follows the initial phase of engaging first-mover signatories and supporters.

 

Four Working Groups, each chaired by a signatory financial institution with expert help from supporting organisations, have been established to implement the NCD Roadmap:

 

Working Group 1: Understand impacts  and dependencies on natural capital

 

Working Group 2: Embed natural capital considerations in loans, equities, bonds and insurance products

 

Working Group 3: Account for natural  capital financially in accounting frameworks

 

Working Group 4: Disclose and report on natural capital

 

The Roadmap defines key outputs for these work areas by 2020.The NCD does not aim to be prescriptive to signatories but rather to quantify the business rationale for different types of products and services and develop methodologies to integrate natural capital considerations for various asset classes. Ultimately, the level of integration will depend on a range of factors, including but not limited to the application of outputs delivered during Phase II, the business rationale to integrate natural capital, the regulatory environment in a given country, and continuous support and resources from senior management.

 

Click here to download the NCD Roadmap.

 

The NCD Business Plan

 

The Secretariat has also developed a Business Plan to help guide fundraising, estimate the budget for this programme, and expand on the outputs and deliverables. If you would like a copy of the Business Plan, please contact the Secretariat, via the ‘Contact us’ page.