[RECORDING] Beyond Compliance: Adopting a Standardised Approach to Biodiversity Reporting for a Nature-Positive Energy Transition
- Mar 11
- 2 min read
Webinar Recording: Beyond Compliance
On 11 March 2026, GINGR and Biodiversity Consultancy hosted the webinar Beyond Compliance: Adopting a Standardised Approach to Biodiversity Reporting for a Nature-Positive Energy Transition, presenting the key findings of our latest Scoping Report on Environmental Reporting.
The challenge we see
Renewables and grids are expanding at pace. Alongside this growth comes rising expectations for credible, comparable environmental reporting. Yet today’s reporting landscape remains crowded and uneven. Multiple frameworks, investor and lender requirements, and emerging standards do not always align, while guidance on biodiversity outcomes and Nature-Positive contributions varies significantly across regions and projects.
As a result, developers, grid operators, financiers, and regulators often struggle to determine what “good” looks like in practice, how to compare performance meaningfully, and how to build trust with communities and stakeholders.
What the webinar addressed
This session responded directly to that challenge. It presented the main findings of GINGR’s Scoping Report, with particular attention to offshore wind and relevance across the broader renewables and grid value chain.
Together, we explored:
Where existing reporting frameworks are strongest
Where important gaps remain – including cumulative impacts, data consistency, and the articulation of measurable Nature-Positive outcomes
What practical steps could strengthen alignment, clarity, and comparability across the sector
The webinar underscored that the issue is not a lack of frameworks, but a lack of harmonisation and outcome-focused metrics.
Speakers and key insights
The session opened with a keynote from Rachel Asante-Owusu (IUCN), who set out why credible environmental reporting is becoming a defining enabler of a Nature-Positive and People-Positive energy transition, and how this agenda connects to GINGR’s broader mission.
The main presentation was delivered by Dr. Paris Stefanoudis (The Biodiversity Consultancy), an expert in corporate environmental reporting with a background in marine biodiversity and conservation. He guided participants through the report’s headline insights and their practical implications for offshore practitioners and the wider energy sector.
GINGR connected these findings to its ongoing work to develop decision-ready, globally aligned tools and guidance that enable energy actors to demonstrate measurable progress for nature and communities.
The webinar served both as a results briefing and as a bridge into GINGR’s next phase – including the development of a pragmatic Nature-Positive Roadmap, shaped in collaboration with industry, finance, and civil society partners.
--> Learn more and explore Paris’ full presentation here.
If you are interested in contributing to or supporting GINGR’s work on environmental reporting, we warmly invite you to get in touch. We welcome collaboration with organisations and experts who are committed to strengthening credible, aligned, and outcome-focused biodiversity reporting across the renewables and grids sector: info@gingr.org