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Biodiversity importance by IBAT

World Database on Protected and Conserved Areas

This dataset contains locations, geometries, and properties of protected areas and other effective area-based conservation measures (OECMs) from the World Database on Protected Areas (WDPA). Access is licensed by the Integrated Biodiversity Assessment Tool (IBAT).

Frameworks

TNFD SBTN CSRD ESRS E4

Use cases

  • Screening supply chain or investment locations against Key Biodiversity Areas
  • TNFD location-based biodiversity risk assessment
  • SBTN high-biodiversity-value area identification
  • Regulatory compliance for projects near protected or sensitive areas

Who uses this

TNFD and SBTN reporting teams use the WDPA to flag supply chain and asset locations overlapping with legally protected areas and OECMs — a required input to the LEAP methodology. Financial institutions screen project finance candidates against protected area boundaries under the Equator Principles and IFC Performance Standard 6. ESG analysts use it as the primary reference layer for protected area proximity screening at portfolio scale.

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