Media Releases — Accounting for Nature

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2024

4 December 2024

Accounting for Nature secures Australian Government grant to champion agriculture and Indigenous-led nature stewardship.

Accounting for Nature has received a Capacity Building Grant under the Australian Government’s $302.1 million Climate-Smart Agriculture Program, aimed at enhancing sustainable agricultural practices across Australia. This initiative is part of the Australian Government’s commitment to supporting climate-smart farming and boosting the resilience of Australian farmers, Indigenous communities, and land managers.

27 November 2024

Accounting for Nature joins as an ISEAL Community Member to advance rigorous global Environmental Accounting standards.

Accounting for Nature, a leading not-for-profit organisation dedicated to setting scientifically robust standards for measuring environmental condition, has proudly joined as an ISEAL Community Member. This new affiliation marks a significant milestone in Accounting for Nature's mission to deliver world-class environmental accounting frameworks that enhance transparency and trust in ecological reporting and enable organisations to measure and account for changes in the state of nature.

15 October 2024

Accounting for Nature enhances its environmental market leadership with the NaturePlus® Standard.

Accounting for Nature, an independent leader in environmental accounting framework and certification, announces the addition of the NaturePlus® Standard to its expanding portfolio of product offerings, delivering value across global markets.

This strategic addition reinforces Accounting for Nature's commitment to scientific integrity, transparency, and independence. Built on trust and credibility, we provide rigorous, science-based standards free from external influence, ensuring accountability in environmental markets.

24 April 2024

Scaling Financial Investment into Natural Capital.

CreditNature Achieves World’s First Independently Accredited Method for Evidencing Ecosystem Restoration.

CreditNature is delighted to announce the world's first accreditation of a Terrestrial Ecosystem Condition Method, under the Accounting for Nature® Standard. This historic accreditation marks a significant step forward, with the potential to unlock substantial financial investments into global ecosystem restoration and natural capital. By providing quantified, credible, and consistent metrics of environmental change and connecting these to mechanisms such as nature credits, this method has the potential to significantly scale nature markets.

13 August 2024

NatureMetrics collaborates with Accounting for Nature to improve accuracy of corporate nature reporting.

Leading global nature intelligence company, NatureMetrics, has aligned with global nature certification standard organisation, Accounting for Nature, to bring scientific robustness and reliability to state of nature measurement and corporate reporting activities.

London – Leading global nature intelligence company, NatureMetrics, and Accounting for Nature, the not-for-profit organisation behind the world-leading global environmental accounting standard, have entered a strategic agreement to enhance corporate nature measurement and reporting with standardisation and scientific rigour.

16 January 2024

Technology company Trovio Group partners with Accounting for Nature to support high-integrity nature-based solutions to climate change.

Accounting for Nature®, the world’s leading global standard for measuring the state of nature, is excited to announce its partnership with Trovio Group, provider of transparent, scalable-solutions for environmental assets. This relationship will develop digital infrastructure to link genuine environmental improvements to eligible high-integrity carbon offset units globally, and supports Accounting for Nature’s vision to value nature, everywhere.

18 June 2024

EIANZ partners with Accounting for Nature.

EIANZ is delighted to announce a new partnership with Accounting for Nature (AfN), the not-for-profit organisation behind the world’s leading global environmental accounting standard.

The AfN Framework is a scientifically rigorous methodology for measuring environmental condition that has been tried and tested over a decade through a collaborative effort by around 200 world-leading experts. AfN provides certification of environmental accounts around the world, and at different scales – from property/project level to the portfolio level, and at the regional ecosystem and national scales.

3 September 2024

The University of Oxford and Accounting for Nature join forces to advance global environmental accounting.

Oxford, England —Accounting for Nature and the University of Oxford is proud to announce the launch of a strategic research collaboration aimed at expanding evidence-based environmental accounting and the use of the Accounting for Nature® Framework globally. This initiative will place a particular emphasis on the United Kingdom and European context, contributing to the advancement of Accounting for Nature measurement methodologies aimed at enhancing our understanding of the state of nature and driving more significant and positive environmental and societal impacts through informed decision-making and investment.

2023

6 December 2023

Accounting for Nature Accredits NSW Biodiversity Conservation Trust’s Native Vegetation Monitoring Method.

In a significant milestone for environmental stewardship, the NSW Biodiversity Conservation Trust (BCT) has achieved Method Accreditation under the globally renowned Accounting for Nature® Framework. This accolade underscores the commitment of the BCT to preserving Australia's unique biodiversity in collaboration with private landholders across New South Wales.

2022

4 November 2022

World-leading environmental accounting framework to underpin new biodiversity market

Accounting for Nature Ltd today welcomed the opportunity to see its world-leading environmental accounting standard underpin a new biodiversity crediting program initiated by GreenCollar.

24 August 2022

Queensland graziers rounding up on enhanced biodiversity using Environmental Accounting

Queensland grazing company Goondicum Pastoral Co has received certification for its first Environmental Account, measuring the health of its natural capital under the globally leading Accounting for Nature Framework.

22 June 2022

A new step forward for the management of Australia’s natural landscapes

Accounting for Nature has accredited the first regional-scale methods under its world-leading standard for environmental accounting.

2020

3 November 2020

Accounting for Nature launches online training platform

Accounting for Nature has launched a new state-of-the-art online training and assessment platform to help build capacity to support Australia’s innovative work in developing world-leading carbon farming and natural capital markets.

2 September 2020

Accounting for Nature’s Certification Standard to underpin multi-million-dollar investment in Qld’s environment

Accounting for Nature will play a key role in the Queensland Government’s $500 million Land Restoration Fund (LRF) with more than three-quarters of successful projects from the first round of funding to adopt the Accounting for Nature Certification Standard.

2 November 2022

Valuing Nature. Burnett Mary Region moves Australia to front of race to unlock billions in investment

Natural resource manager, The Burnett Mary Regional Group (BMRG) together with partners, has announced registration of Australia’s largest regional-scale environmental account.

23 May 2022

Australian Standard for measuring the health of nature attends the World Economic Forum

Accounting for Nature Chief Executive Officer, Dr Adrian Ward; visits the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2022 in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland.

16 September 2022

Accounting for Nature Board welcomes expertise in international environmental certification

Accounting for Nature Chairman Peter Cosier today announced the appointment of David Shelmerdine as a non-executive director to the Board of Accounting for Nature Limited, with immediate effect.

28 July 2022

Accounting for Nature appoints another world-leading scientific expert to its independent Science Accreditation Committee

Australian Scientist Dr Suzanne Prober has been appointed to the Accounting for Nature (AfN) Science Accreditation Committee.

12 May 2022

Accounting for Nature Board welcomes legal expert and passionate conservation in farming champion

Nadia Campbell has been appointed to the Accounting for Nature Board. Ms Campbell, the Director of Goondicum Pastoral Co, has extensive corporate, government and legal experience across a diverse range of industries including the finance sector.