EFF-C-070 : Environmental impact assessment
Effinature criterion · theme: Species and habitats
The Effinature criterion “Environmental impact assessment” (EFF-C-070) belongs to the Species and habitats theme and applies to the HOR/NCO reference framework(s). It maps to 59 international provision(s), including strong matches with ESRS E4 (SBM-3), ESRS E4 (IRO-1), GRI 101 (101-4).
International correspondences (59)
| Framework | Provision | Relation | Confidence | Rationale |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ESRS E4 | SBM-3 | Narrow match | Indicative (55%) | The environmental impact assessment identifies the impacts on sensitive zones and protected species. |
| ESRS E4 | IRO-1 | Close match | Medium (60%) | The environmental impact assessment corresponds to the process of identifying impacts and concluding on the required mitigation measures. |
| CSRD | ESRS2-SBM-3 | Broad match | Medium | The project's environmental impact assessment documents the material impacts on biodiversity, providing the site-level basis expected by SBM-3. |
| GRI 101 | 101-4 | Close match | High | The environmental impact assessment identifies the project's impacts on biodiversity, at the heart of requirement 101-4. |
| TNFD | Strategy A | Close match | Medium | The environmental impact assessment identifies the project's impacts and nature-related issues, at the heart of Strategy A disclosure at the operation scale. |
| TNFD | Strategy A | Close match | Medium | The environmental impact assessment identifies the project's impacts and nature-related issues, at the heart of Strategy A disclosure at the operation scale. |
| TNFD | Strategy A | Close match | Medium | The environmental impact assessment identifies the project's impacts and nature-related issues, at the heart of Strategy A disclosure at the operation scale. |
| TNFD | Strategy A | Close match | Medium | The environmental impact assessment identifies the project's impacts and nature-related issues, at the heart of Strategy A disclosure at the operation scale. |
| SBTN | S1a-R3 | Close match | Medium | The environmental impact assessment and initial states (flora, fauna, soil, pollution) identify at site level the material pressures on nature, the same substantive approach as SBTN screening but at the project rather than the company scale. |
| SBTN | S1b-R10 | Broad match | Low | The characterisation of ecological continuities, land use and impact assessment locate at site level the activities and their impacts, which overlaps with the SBTN mapping of direct operations; SBTN remains more systematic (by pressure/realm). |
| SBTN | S1b-R15 | Broad match | Low | Worksite monitoring and initial states cover all the project's footprints for material pressures, which overlaps with the comprehensive assessment of direct-operation locations; SBTN scope is broader (company multi-site). |
| SBTN | S1b-R24 | Related match | Low | The ecological assessment and impact assessment cross, at site level, the state of nature (flora/fauna) and impacts/pressures, which overlaps with the SBTN principle of linking pressure and SoN by location; SBTN structures these data by activity-location pair at the value-chain scale. |
| Taxonomie UE | 7.1-SC-b | Close match | High | The environmental impact assessment, worksite monitoring by the ecologist and fauna/flora preservation programmes constitute the EIA and its mitigation measures. |
| Taxonomie UE | DNSH-BIO-EIE | Close match | High | The environmental impact assessment and prefectural 'flora/fauna component' orders transpose the appropriate assessment under the Habitats/Birds Directives. |
| SFDR | PAI-7 | Related match | Medium (60%) | Effinature's environmental impact assessment of the project conceptually overlaps with the identification of impacts on biodiversity-sensitive areas targeted by PAI 7, but at the site scale and not the financial portfolio. |
| SFDR | DNSH | Related match | Indicative (45%) | The environmental impact assessment verifies the absence of significant harm, at the heart of the DNSH principle. |
| SFDR | ART-4-PAI | Related match | Indicative (35%) | The environmental impact assessment feeds the consideration of negative impacts on biodiversity. |
| ISO 17298 | 6.3 | Close match | High | The ISO identification of material impacts on biodiversity corresponds to Effinature's ecological analyses (flora, fauna) and the project's environmental impact assessments. |
| ISO 17298 | 6.5 | Narrow match | Medium | The ISO prioritisation of impacts translates at project level into the effective prioritisation carried out by Effinature's environmental impact assessments, which rank and grade the impacts to be addressed. A real operational correspondence on the impacts component (narrow: does not encompass the organisational dependencies/risks/opportunities component of the ISO). |
| CDP | 2.1 (Bio) | Close match | Medium | The environmental impact assessment is the process for identifying and assessing the project's biodiversity impacts. |
| CDP | 2.4 (Bio) | Close match | Medium | The environmental impact assessment describes the project's impacts on biodiversity (direct-impacts component). |
| GRESB | GRESB-BI1-REM | Close match | Medium (60%) | Environmental incidence assessment quantifies expected habitat loss/impact, matching the 'habitat removed' concept. |
| GRESB | GRESB-NAT-STRAT | Related match | Indicative (45%) | TNFD-aligned strategy requires identifying nature-related impacts/risks; Effinature environmental incidence assessment identifies project impacts. |
| GBF | Target 4 | Narrow match | Medium | The requirements for inventory, preservation and monitoring of local fauna, sealing of trap cavities, shelters and management of sensitive periods aim to protect and re-establish animal species, particularly threatened ones, present on the site. |
| GBF | Target 12 | Narrow match | Medium | These requirements for the choice, planting, management and monitoring of plant heritage improve the quality and durability of urban green spaces, contributing more specifically to the target's objective. |
| GBF | Target 14 | Close match | High | The initial states, environmental impact assessments, prefectural orders, environmental specifications (CPAUPE) and ecological assessments formally integrate biodiversity into the project's planning and impact assessment. |
| Habitats/Oiseaux | HAB-Art6.3 | Exact match | High (90%) | Effinature's environmental impact assessment corresponds directly to the appropriate assessment of Article 6(3). |
| Loi biodiv 2016 | BIO-15 | Related match | Low | The environmental impact assessment produces the impact analyses whose data feed the natural-heritage inventory. |
| Code env. | L122-1 | Close match | Medium (70%) | Effinature's environmental impact assessment corresponds to the impact-study report required by the environmental assessment. |
| Code env. | R122-5-incidences | Close match | Medium (70%) | The environmental impact assessment describes the project's significant impacts, at the heart of this requirement. |
| Code env. | L414-4 | Narrow match | Indicative (55%) | The environmental impact assessment covers, where applicable, the assessment of impacts on a Natura 2000 site. |
| Doctrine ERC | ERC-P6 | Close match | High | Effinature's environmental impact assessment corresponds to the proportionate impact assessment of the Avoid-Reduce-Offset doctrine. |
| TVB | TVB-ORIENT-07 | Related match | Indicative (50%) | The project's environmental impact assessment incorporates the analysis of its compatibility with the territory's ecological continuities. |
| UICN SfN | Critère 2 | Related match | Medium | The environmental impact assessment identifies the project's risks, including beyond the footprint, echoing the risk management of criterion 2. |
| ÉcoQuartier | Engagement 20 | Broad match | High | The ÉcoQuartier's preservation/restoration of plant biodiversity encompasses this Effinature requirement relating to flora, the plant palette, building greening and biodiversity areas. |
| BNG | BNG-04 | Narrow match | Indicative (55%) | The assessment of development-related biodiversity loss corresponds, in Effinature, to the environmental impact assessment and prefectural orders (flora/fauna components) that characterise the harm, as well as to the preservation of the initial heritage. |
| IFC PS6 | PS6-§6 | Close match | High (80%) | Effinature's initial states and impact assessments (flora, fauna, soil, pollution, continuities) constitute the required process for identifying risks and impacts. |
| IFC PS6 | PS6-§14 | Narrow match | Indicative (55%) | Effinature's environmental impact assessment genuinely responds, via regulatory analysis, to the natural-habitat non-degradation requirement of PS6, within the scope of French law on protected species/habitats. |
| IFC PS6 | PS6-§20 | Narrow match | Indicative (50%) | The environmental impact assessment incorporates the regulatory analysis of protected perimeters (Natura 2000, ZNIEFF, protection orders), a genuine response but restricted to national legal areas. |
| ESS6 | ESS6-§8 | Close match | Medium (78%) | Effinature's initial states and impact assessments (flora, fauna, soil, pollution, ecological continuities) constitute the process for identifying impacts on habitats and biodiversity required by ESS6. |
| ESS6 | ESS6-§10-11 | Close match | Medium (72%) | The characterisation of Effinature's initial state (analysis and initial state of soil, flora, fauna, pollution, ecological continuities) meets ESS6's requirement for a proportionate baseline. |
| ESS6 | ESS6-§21-22 | Narrow match | Indicative (55%) | Effinature's environmental impact assessment genuinely responds, via regulatory analysis, to the natural-habitat non-degradation requirement, within the scope of French law. |
| ESS6 | ESS6-§26-27 | Narrow match | Indicative (50%) | The regulatory analysis of protected perimeters (Natura 2000, ZNIEFF, protection orders) incorporated into the impact assessment and compliance with legislation responds to the requirement of consistency with protected areas, within the scope of national legal areas. |
| EP4 | EP-P1 | Related match | Indicative (50%) | EP4's upstream categorisation of environmental risks (including biodiversity) is a lender screening; on the Effinature side, the needs assessment and environmental impact assessment play an analogous role of upstream issue identification, for a different purpose. |
| EP4 | EP-P2 | Close match | Medium (70%) | Effinature's environmental impact assessment and prefectural orders (flora/fauna components) constitute the impact-assessment process and regulatory analysis required by Principle 2. |
| EP4 | EP-P3 | Narrow match | Indicative (55%) | Effinature's impact assessment and prefectural orders concretely apply, within the scope of French protected-species/habitat law, the regulatory-compliance requirement of Principle 3 (the IFC PS6 reference remaining an international lending standard not transposed as such). |
| EP4 | EP-DII-4 | Narrow match | Indicative (55%) | The identification of legally protected areas in Document II §4 is covered, within the scope of French law (Natura 2000, ZNIEFF, orders), by Effinature's prefectural orders and impact assessment, without the international notion of critical habitat. |
| Green Star | GSB-NAT-SITE | Related match | Medium | Both require an assessment of environmental incidences of the project on protected species/habitats before development. Green Star screens against EPBC-listed species/communities; Effinature evaluates environmental incidences. |
| Green Mark / CBI | SI-18 | Related match | Low | The environmental impact assessment is part of the appraisal of natural capital. |
| Estidama | NS-R1 | Related match | Low | Assessment of the project's environmental impacts on natural systems. |
| ISO 17620 | 6.3 | Narrow match | Medium (60%) | The environmental impact assessment conditions the project's feasibility with respect to biodiversity. |
| ISO 17620 | 7.2.2 | Close match | Medium (72%) | The environmental impact assessment identifies and prioritises the project's impacts. |
| ISO 17620 | 7.2.3 | Close match | Medium (72%) | The environmental impact assessment constitutes the project's impact-assessment report. |
| ACT Biodiv | 2.1 | Narrow match | Indicative (45%) | The environmental impact assessment quantifies impacts on the site's biodiversity. |
| BREEAM LE | LE02 | Related match | Medium (70%) | The environmental impact assessment overlaps with the analysis of ecological risks and opportunities (GN34). |
| LEED | AÉS Crédit : Évaluation du site | Close match | High (80%) | The prior assessment of site conditions (including vegetation, hydrology, soils) is equivalent to Effinature's environmental impact assessment. |
| SITES | Context P1.4 | Related match | Indicative (50%) | Assessment of impacts on protected-species habitats = environmental impact assessment. |
| LEED-ND | SLL-P2 | Related match | Indicative (40%) | Environmental impact assessment (EFF-C-070) - LEED assesses and avoids impacts on threatened species. |
| ARB IdF | IND-05 | Narrow match | Medium | The environmental impact assessment complements the prior regulatory survey. |
Source & licence
- Publisher : IRICE (groupe NORMAXIS)
- Accreditation : Cofrac (Comité français d'accréditation) n°5-0655 rév. 1 (NF EN ISO/IEC 17065:2012), scope at www.cofrac.fr
- Dataset version : 9.1
- Licence : CC BY-ND 4.0