World Benchmarking Alliance+NAT.B06.EB Ecosystem Restoration Project Outcomes+methodology

WBA analysed all publicly available group-level disclosure in English on the applicable group website, which was predominantly annual reports and sustainability reports. Draft assessments were then sent to each company inviting them to provide feedback. This feedback could include additional publicly available group disclosure published. These were then reviewed and finalised. Final assessments were then shared with each company before being published online.

For this metric outcomes include measurable and quantifiable improvements of the restoration project directly related to the company's actions. Actions that a company might take to regenerate and restore might include the following, depending on whether they are looking at land, freshwater, oceans or biodiversity:

• Ecological restoration.

• Supporting individual species recovery and/or diversity.

• Rehabilitation of degraded lands.

• Replenishment of freshwater systems.

• Management of production areas.

• Allowance for ecological permeability.

• Compensatory conservation/target-based ecological compensation.

An example could be restoration of degraded land back to a productive state or even further back to its natural state, prehuman impact.