The global regulatory context and reporting requirements are increasingly incorporating biodiversity and nature components for the private sector. This brief introduces how existing datasets, metrics and tools can help to report on biodiversity and nature outcomes in landscape and jurisdictional approaches so that those working on and supporting these initiatives can better align their data collection and reporting with global corporate reporting needs.

 ISEAL’s recommendation for the consistent use of three foundational approaches for measuring biodiversity and nature-related outcomes at a landscape level are set out in an accompanying paper (Practical steps for advancing a common approach to landscape level biodiversity and nature measurement).