World Benchmarking Alliance+Disclosure of issues raised during stakeholder engagement process

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

Meeting the interests of all stakeholders is essential for a business’s long-term success.
Regular engagement with stakeholders enhances the company’s understanding of diverse and often
conflicting perspectives, fosters innovation and facilitates the development of robust and inclusive
strategies. Companies are expected to undertake meaningful stakeholder engagement, which should
yield clear outcomes or actions, as well as transparently acknowledge how stakeholder inputs are
used.The company should disclose specific and concrete concerns raised by each stakeholder group in the reporting year's engagement. It is insufficient for the company to provide a list of issues without specifying the corresponding stakeholder groups.
While the list of issues should go beyond the materiality assessment, companies can have overlapping issues with what they identified in the materiality assessment, as long as these issues are directly raised during stakeholder engagement.

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