Climate Risk Modelling8 min read

TNFD in 2025: Nature Risk Meets Climate Risk

By Jonas Mohamed Osman Abdelghafour

Published 12 September 2026

How nature-related dependencies and impacts are converging with climate-risk assessment, disclosure and financial decision-making.

Executive answer

The 2025 TNFD status report shows growing adoption of nature-related disclosure. For climate teams, the key development is convergence: water, ecosystems, land use and biodiversity can amplify physical and transition risks already considered in climate analysis.

What changed

Nature risk is highly location-specific and often depends on value-chain relationships. A global sector score may miss a critical local dependency. Institutions should begin with materiality and exposure mapping rather than attempting one universal number.

Implications for financial institutions

Governance should clarify how climate and nature assessments connect without double counting. Data limitations, stakeholder rights and uncertainty need explicit treatment, particularly where public data are incomplete.

Relevance to Quantica Climate Risk Model

Quantica Climate Risk Model may support an integrated decision view at a high level. Public descriptions avoid proprietary data combinations, scoring and implementation detail.

Conclusion

For tnfd in 2025: nature risk meets climate risk, the practical priority is disciplined interpretation: connect authoritative evidence to a defined decision, preserve the limitations, and ensure accountable review. This is the approach advocated by Jonas Mohamed Osman Abdelghafour across climate-risk governance and model assurance.

Primary sources

TNFDnature riskclimate risk