Exploring Nature: Datasets and Models for Analyzing Nature-Related
  Disclosures
Tobias Schimanski Chiara Colesanti Senni Glen Gostlow Jingwei Ni Tingyu Yu Markus Leippold
Nature is an amorphous concept. Yet, it is essential for the planet's
well-being to understand how the economy interacts with it. To address the
growing demand for information on corporate nature disclosure, we provide
datasets and classifiers to detect nature communication by companies. We ground
our approach in the guidelines of the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial
Disclosures (TNFD). Particularly, we focus on the specific dimensions of water,
forest, and biodiversity. For each dimension, we create an expert-annotated
dataset with 2,200 text samples and train classifier models. Furthermore, we
show that nature communication is more prevalent in hotspot areas and directly
effected industries like agriculture and utilities. Our approach is the first
to respond to calls to assess corporate nature communication on a large scale.