BIOPATH feedback to TNFD and next steps in 2023

On June 1, BIOPATH submitted a feedback report to TNFD with eight specific recommendations based on discussions from the first two workshops during 2023. The next step is to continue to feed input to TNFD through established channels.

Victor Elliot and Susanne Arvidsson with master students Ulrika Ohlsson and Markus Ögren at BIOPATH second workshop on TNFD in Lund.

In the upcoming workshops in the fall the focus will be on specific challenges experienced by our pilot-companies and proactively work to address these challenges. We will develop a TNFD-best-practice-guide featuring partner examples of how to proficiently work with TNFD-integration. A first draft of this guide will be produced after the third TNFD-workshop on 26 September and circulated before the fourth workshop on 20 November.

During the second meeting, Johan Florén, member of TNFD, presented details on the feedback from other pilot organisations and the coming launch process of the TNFD. Henrik Smith, professor in Biodiversity and Conservation Science and WP1 lead in BIOPATH, commented on the composition and relevance of the framework from a natural science perspective. 

To conclude the second workshop, the two Master students, Markus Ögren och Ulrika Ohlsson, University of Gothenburg, School of Business, Economics and Law, shared the findings of their master-thesis on TNFD. The purpose of their study was to provide a better understanding of how the idea of accounting for nature is translated into the TNFD framework. The study examines how businesses respond to the traveling idea, by either accepting, excluding, contesting, or ignoring different parts of the framework, based on their translation of it.

The master thesis will be published at GUEPA : The journey of accounting for nature: A qualitative study of the strive to account for nature through translation of the TNFD framework from a Scandinavian Institutionalism perspective.