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 world generates more than 2 billion tonnes of municipal solid waste annually, with at
least 33% of it not managed in an environmentally safe manner. Without urgent action, global waste
is projected to increase by 70% by 2050, reaching 3.4 billion tonnes annually (World Bank, 2018). This
growing problem poses significant environmental and health risks. Companies must adopt and
demonstrate comprehensive waste management strategies to address this critical issue. The company must demonstrate absolute, year-on-year, quantitative reductions for three consecutive years in either its general waste generation, or metrics related to its most material category/categories of waste.
The company must do one of the following:
report reduction progress against its targets in element (b). Progress against a target is only accepted if the target meets the general scoring guidance to be considered a well-defined target.
show reductions in either its general waste generation, or in its most material category/categories of waste. If the company reports data on multiple waste categories but is only improving in one, this element can only be met if it is not regressing in any other waste category. Any increases in a waste category will result in an unmet.
least 33% of it not managed in an environmentally safe manner. Without urgent action, global waste
is projected to increase by 70% by 2050, reaching 3.4 billion tonnes annually (World Bank, 2018). This
growing problem poses significant environmental and health risks. Companies must adopt and
demonstrate comprehensive waste management strategies to address this critical issue. The company must demonstrate absolute, year-on-year, quantitative reductions for three consecutive years in either its general waste generation, or metrics related to its most material category/categories of waste.
The company must do one of the following:
report reduction progress against its targets in element (b). Progress against a target is only accepted if the target meets the general scoring guidance to be considered a well-defined target.
show reductions in either its general waste generation, or in its most material category/categories of waste. If the company reports data on multiple waste categories but is only improving in one, this element can only be met if it is not regressing in any other waste category. Any increases in a waste category will result in an unmet.
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