Unified Metrics Library - Protected areas

"Protected area" means designated areas in the European Environment Agency’s Common Database on Designated Areas (CDDA).

• The Nationally designated area's inventory is the official source of protected area information from the 38 European countries to the World Database of Protected Areas (WDPA). You can use the inventory’s official ArcGIS map to see EU-wide protected areas.
• IUCN, along with the United Nations Environment – World Conservation Monitoring Centre, maintains a global database of protected and conserved areas. The interactive map of Protected Planet provides protected areas within the EU.

Regulatory Definition

According to the (EU) 2022/1288 of 6 April 2022, the metric is defined as "Share of investments in investee companies without a biodiversity protection policy covering operational sites owned, leased, managed in, or adjacent to, a protected area or an area of high biodiversity value outside protected areas".

Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/1288 of 6 April 2022 supplementing Regulation (EU) 2019/2088 of the European Parliament and of the Council with regard to regulatory technical standards specifying the details of the content and presentation of the information in relation to the principle of do no significant harm.

ANNEX I (Table 2, Indicators applicable to investments in investee companies, Water, waste and emissions section, Indicator 14, Point 2)

If you have activities in or near a protected area and do not have a biodiversity protection policy covering operational sites owned, leased, or managed in those areas.