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.
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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 quantify impacts to people stemming from its impact on nature. This can be done, for example, by:
Applying environmental valuation techniques (either monetary or non-monetary) to assess the impact to society stemming from the company’s impacts on nature.
Quantifying numbers of people impacted.
Databases/tools that can be used to measure environmental values include:
Environmental Profit & Loss (EP&L)
Natural Capital Protocol
UN-SEAA EA
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 quantify impacts to people stemming from its impact on nature. This can be done, for example, by:
Applying environmental valuation techniques (either monetary or non-monetary) to assess the impact to society stemming from the company’s impacts on nature.
Quantifying numbers of people impacted.
Databases/tools that can be used to measure environmental values include:
Environmental Profit & Loss (EP&L)
Natural Capital Protocol
UN-SEAA EA
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