World Benchmarking Alliance+NAT.C02.ED Business Relationships & Indigenous People' Rights Practices+About
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 respects indigenous peoples' rights and obtains affected Indigenous Peoples' free, prior and informed consent regarding whether and how to carry out projects.
Rationale: Indigenous peoples may be particularly vulnerable to the adverse impacts associated with project development, including risk of impoverishment and loss of identity, culture and natural resource-based livelihoods (IFC, 2012d). Protecting and securing Indigenous Peoples' rights has been recognised as crucial to advancing conservation, restoration and climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies (WRI, 2019).