At El Puerto de Liverpool, we understand that the health of ecosystems is essential to the well-being of communities, the resilience of our operations, and the country’s sustainable development. As part of our sustainability strategy, “La Huella,” we are beginning to focus our efforts on implementing a structured approach to identify our relationship with biodiversity-related issues.
As part of this effort, we have begun assessing our level of alignment with the framework of recommendations from the Task Force on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD). This initial analysis has allowed us to identify strengths in our ESG governance structure and key areas of opportunity for more deeply integrating nature-related issues into our strategy, risk management, and metrics.
The LEAP approach is a methodological framework developed by the TNFD that enables organizations to gain a structured understanding of their relationship with nature through four distinct phases: identifying where they interact with ecosystems; assessing their dependencies and impacts; analyzing the associated risks and opportunities; and developing actions, metrics, and disclosures to support effective management and strategic decision-making.
Through an external assessment, we conduct a general evaluation of the level of progress made across each of the TNFD pillars: Governance, Strategy, Risk and Impact Management, and Metrics and Targets. This analysis uses a scale from 1 to 3, where 1 indicates no or almost no alignment and 3 represents full alignment with each recommendation and pillar.
During this first stage of the LEAP approach, the objective was to identify the priority areas where El Puerto de Liverpool direct operations may have the greatest impact on nature and biodiversity (sensitive locations). This process serves as the foundation that allows us to guide and focus a more detailed due diligence effort during the future development of the subsequent phases of the TNFD’s LEAP approach.
In this second phase of the LEAP approach proposed by the TNFD, the Port of Liverpool’s objective was to identify the key nature-related dependencies and impacts affecting our direct operations, based on both our industrial sectors and the nature of our business. This process, together with the results of our mapping phase, will enable us to determine the key risks and opportunities to which El Puerto de Liverpool might be exposed or vulnerable, according to the analysis in the next phase.