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 production of air pollutants, such as nitrogen oxides and sulphur oxides, through
companies’ operations and business activities has adverse effects on agriculture, air quality,
biodiversity, climate, habitats and the health of both animals and humans (GRI, 2021). This indicator
measures companies’ approaches to measuring and reducing harmful air pollutants across their value
chains. The company must either:
report reduction progress against its targets in element (b). Progress must be reported using absolute values. Progress against a target is only accepted if the target is timebound and measurable as specified by the requirements in element (b), or
Show year-on-year, absolute reductions for all material pollutants for three consecutive years. If the company reports data on multiple air pollutants, but are only improving in one, the element is only Met if it is NOT regressing in another.
Project or location specific progress is only accepted if the company provides explicit reasoning and evidence that this is more impactful to the specific location
companies’ operations and business activities has adverse effects on agriculture, air quality,
biodiversity, climate, habitats and the health of both animals and humans (GRI, 2021). This indicator
measures companies’ approaches to measuring and reducing harmful air pollutants across their value
chains. The company must either:
report reduction progress against its targets in element (b). Progress must be reported using absolute values. Progress against a target is only accepted if the target is timebound and measurable as specified by the requirements in element (b), or
Show year-on-year, absolute reductions for all material pollutants for three consecutive years. If the company reports data on multiple air pollutants, but are only improving in one, the element is only Met if it is NOT regressing in another.
Project or location specific progress is only accepted if the company provides explicit reasoning and evidence that this is more impactful to the specific location
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Assessment
Steward Assessed
Report Type
Aggregate Data Report