About the data
The WBA Nature Benchmark measures and ranks the world's most influential companies on their efforts to protect the environment and its biodiversity, tracking how companies are reducing their negative impacts on nature and contributing to the protection and restoration of ecosystems, aligned with the goals of the Global Biodiversity Framework. The 2026 edition assessed 750 companies across multiple sectors including agro-food, forestry, building, tourism and the blue economy. The benchmark is developed in close collaboration with an Expert Review Committee and partners including GRI, SBTN, and TNFD, with a methodology designed to incentivise companies to understand where nature-related risks are highest and act to halt damaging trends, while keeping human rights and social impacts at its core.
More information can be found here.
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Methodology
The private sector has historically been one of the main contributors to environmental
degradation. It is crucial for companies to reverse this trend to ensure a sustainable future, and a vital
first step in this process is for them to transparently disclose their impacts on nature. Frameworks
provided by organisations such as Business for Nature, Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), Nature Action
100 (NA100) and the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) offer comprehensive
guidelines to help companies report and mitigate their environmental footprints.Companies must disclose changes in the state of nature** **(which encapsulates ecosystems, species or biodiversity)** **at location(s) impacted by their operations, or their value chain, using science-based metrics. For a list of metrics, please consult the [TNFD guidance](https://tnfd.global/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Guidance_on_the_identification_and_assessment_of_nature-related_Issues_The_TNFD_LEAP_approach_V1.1_October2023.pdf?v=1698403116), p. 208.
Examples of databases/tools that can be used to guide companies to measure environmental impacts include:
Integrated Biodiversity Assessment Tool (IBAT)
WWF Biodiversity Risk Filter
Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
World Database on Protected Areas (WDPA).
Integrated Valuation of Ecosystem Services and Tradeoffs (InVEST)
Global Biodiversity Standard (GBS)
IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
Key Biodiversity Areas (KBA)
degradation. It is crucial for companies to reverse this trend to ensure a sustainable future, and a vital
first step in this process is for them to transparently disclose their impacts on nature. Frameworks
provided by organisations such as Business for Nature, Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), Nature Action
100 (NA100) and the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) offer comprehensive
guidelines to help companies report and mitigate their environmental footprints.Companies must disclose changes in the state of nature** **(which encapsulates ecosystems, species or biodiversity)** **at location(s) impacted by their operations, or their value chain, using science-based metrics. For a list of metrics, please consult the [TNFD guidance](https://tnfd.global/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Guidance_on_the_identification_and_assessment_of_nature-related_Issues_The_TNFD_LEAP_approach_V1.1_October2023.pdf?v=1698403116), p. 208.
Examples of databases/tools that can be used to guide companies to measure environmental impacts include:
Integrated Biodiversity Assessment Tool (IBAT)
WWF Biodiversity Risk Filter
Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
World Database on Protected Areas (WDPA).
Integrated Valuation of Ecosystem Services and Tradeoffs (InVEST)
Global Biodiversity Standard (GBS)
IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
Key Biodiversity Areas (KBA)
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