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Why your business should support ICaN

By investing in these solutions, we protect our communities, minimise risks, and maintain a vibrant, growing, local economy. Use the links below to find out more about how your support for ICaN can meet your corporate goals and reporting framework requirements on climate and nature impacts.

Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD)

Supporting ICaN and Meeting CSRD Requirements

Executive Summary 

The Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) requires companies to disclose how they address environmental, social, and governance (ESG) impacts. Reports must demonstrate measurable contributions to EU environmental objectives such as climate change mitigation, adaptation, and biodiversity recovery.

Supporting ICaN projects provides a direct, credible way to strengthen CSRD reporting:

  • Environmental Impact: ICaN delivers measurable outcomes in emissions reduction, resilience, and nature recovery.
  • Double Materiality: Contributions show both positive environmental impact and reduced business risks.
  • EU Taxonomy Alignment: ICaN projects substantially contribute to EU sustainability objectives.
  • Enhanced Disclosure & Trust: Transparent reporting builds confidence with investors, regulators, and customers.

ICaN’s Natural Capital Accounting Valuation Tool quantifies benefits across climate regulation, biodiversity, health, and more — typically delivering a 10:1 return on investment.

In short: Supporting ICaN helps your company meet CSRD obligations while delivering real environmental and business value.

What is CSRD?

The Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) is EU law requiring large companies to disclose how social and environmental issues create risks and opportunities, and how their activities impact people and the planet.

Reports must be included in annual management reports and cover:

  • Environmental matters – science based targets, EU Taxonomy alignment, climate risk reporting
  • Social matters – employee treatment, diversity, human rights
  • Governance – anti‑corruption, bribery, board diversity

Disclosures must be qualitative and quantitative, forward-looking and retrospective, short, medium and long-term.

The EU has set six environmental objectives:

  1. Climate change mitigation
  2. Climate change adaptation
  3. Sustainable protection of water and marine resources
  4. Transition to a circular economy
  5. Pollution prevention and control
  6. Protection and restoration of biodiversity and ecosystems

Economic activity is only considered sustainable if it substantially contributes to at least one objective, does no significant harm to the others, and complies with minimum social safeguards.

How Supporting ICaN Helps

ICaN projects deliver against three critical goals:

  • Mitigation – reducing emissions and climate drivers
  • Adaptation – building resilience in South Gloucestershire
  • Recovery – restoring biodiversity and ecosystems

Your support for ICaN can strengthen CSRD reporting by:

  • Environmental Focus: ICaN directly addresses climate mitigation, adaptation, and biodiversity recovery.
  • Double Materiality: Demonstrates both impact materiality (ecosystem restoration, emissions reduction) and financial materiality (reduced supply chain risks).
  • EU Taxonomy Alignment: ICaN projects substantially contribute to EU environmental objectives.
  • Enhanced ESG Disclosure: Contributions can be reported under sustainability strategy, resource allocation, and stakeholder engagement.
  • Stakeholder Trust: Transparent reporting builds credibility with investors, regulators, and customers.
  • Risk Management: Adaptation and nature recovery reduce long‑term risks such as supply chain disruption and reputational damage.

Measuring Impact

Developed with a leading Natural Capital Accounting consultancy, the ICaN Valuation Tool uses DEFRA approved datasets to calculate the economic value of benefits across seven categories:

  • Climate regulation
  • Flood regulation
  • Air pollution removal
  • Biodiversity
  • Recreation
  • Physical health
  • Mental health

Typical results show a 10:1 return on investment — for example, a £10,000 contribution unlocks £100,000 in benefits over 15 years.

Why It Matters

The European Green Deal aims to make Europe the first climate neutral continent by 2050. CSRD and the EU Taxonomy are central to this transformation, ensuring sustainability information is comparable, trusted, and reliable.

By supporting ICaN, your company not only meets CSRD obligations but also demonstrates leadership in building a resilient, nature positive economy.

In short: ICaN turns your philanthropic support into measurable environmental outcomes, credible CSRD disclosures, and long-term business resilience.