World Benchmarking Alliance+Reporting progress on improving material input use

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 global reliance on a linear economy is a major driver of environmental degradation,
with the extraction and processing of materials, fuels and food responsible for 90% of biodiversity loss
(UNEP, 2019). At the same time, global material consumption continues to climb: in the last six years
alone, we have consumed over half a trillion tonnes of materials – nearly matching the total material
use throughout the whole of the 20th century (Circularity Gap Report, 2023). This unsustainable
pattern underscores the urgent need for companies to adopt more responsible and transparent
resource use practices.The company must demonstrate progress towards its material input use target or show absolute, year-on-year reductions for three consecutive years in the total weight of its material inputs.

Progress against a target is only accepted if the target is timebound and measurable as specified by the requirements in element (b).

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