Framework guide · TNFD LEAP
The TNFD LEAP approach
LEAP is TNFD’s integrated assessment approach for nature-related issues. It works for companies and financial institutions, and is referenced well beyond TNFD.
Four phases
LEAP starts with a scoping exercise, then moves through four phases, each with four components.
- 01
Locate
Find your interface with nature: the span of your business model and value chain, dependency and impact screening, your interface with nature, and interface with sensitive locations.
- 02
Evaluate
Identify environmental assets, ecosystem services and impact drivers; identify, measure and assess the materiality of dependencies and impacts.
- 03
Assess
Identify nature-related risks and opportunities, adjust existing risk management, measure and prioritise, and assess materiality.
- 04
Prepare
Set strategy and resource allocation, targets and performance management, then report and present your findings.
Where screening fits
A sector-level screening is the natural way to begin the Locate phase, before investing in site-level data. Tools based on ENCORE, such as the SBTN Materiality Screening Tool, show which activities are likely to have material pressures on nature.
A note on accuracy
This page is a plain-language summary for orientation, not legal or audit advice. Standards and their application dates change; always check the official texts and current regulatory status.
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