Sustainable finance: WWF and CDP propose a network on nature in transition planning

WWF and CDP have proposed creating a network to help companies and financial institutions integrate nature into their transition plans, in a concept brief announced on 22 October 2026 and presented at COP17 in Armenia.

It is based on six months of work by an informal working group whose members included the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD), United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI), the World Benchmarking Alliance, the World Economic Forum, Rabobank and Vattenfall. The work was commissioned and financed by the Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO).

According to the brief, more than 80% of businesses and financial institutions surveyed by the TNFD include nature in their transition plans or intend to do so. More than 47% of climate transition…