Affected stakeholders

Affected stakeholders can be defined as people or groups that have been, or may be, affected by an organization’s operations, products, services and value chains, including an organization’s nature-related dependencies, impacts, risks and/or opportunities, and responses to those issues. Affected communities can range from local communities living adjacent to the organization’s operations or the site of its activities to those living at a distance but affected, for example, by nature loss, such as the loss of migratory species, or impact drivers, such as water or air pollution that the organization generates. Affected communities can include Indigenous Peoples who have internationally recognised rights related to their lands, territories, resources, cultures, traditional knowledge and the conduct of their affairs, and the right to Free, Prior and Informed Consent before activities affecting their lands may proceed.