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This metric was designed by The World Benchmarking Alliance, more information can be found here. Sources and Alignments for each indicator can be found here as well as the scoring guidelines here

The World Benchmarking Alliance's Nature Benchmark measures and ranks the world's most influential companies on their efforts to protect our environment and its biodiversity.

This metric relates to the Indicator: The company discloses how it manages the risks posed by invasive alien species (IAS) in its own operations and the most material parts of its value chain.

Rationale: The accidental or voluntary introduction of IAS is one of the most common threats to species as well as a very important factor in ecosystems' decline and deterioration. IAS can be defined as species introduced into a foreign environment which adversely impact local biodiversity through competition and predation, provoking the disruption of local ecosystems and ecosystem functions. The CBD's Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework requires that the introduction of IAS be managed and the rate of their introduction and establishment be lessened by at least 50% (CBD, 2021).