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
Impact materiality assessments allow companies to identify and prioritise their most significant environmental, social and governance impacts. Embedding the results into their
sustainability strategy ensures that companies address these critical areas effectively, enhancing their long-term resilience and aligning the company’s operations with the SDGs.
The company must have a specific document clearly and explicitly labelled as a ‚sustainability strategy," or a clearly identifiable stand-alone section(s) in another document that describes its sustainability strategy. This strategy must include all the following three aspects:
The strategy must include forward looking aspects.
The strategy must focus on integrating environmental, social and economic development (e.g. improving local conditions; increasing employment) considerations into its business, operations and planning. Hence the sustainability strategy shall not be seen as a separate, peripheral activity, but as central to the company’s operations.
The strategy must at least cover the priority material impacts (A01.B).
sustainability strategy ensures that companies address these critical areas effectively, enhancing their long-term resilience and aligning the company’s operations with the SDGs.
The company must have a specific document clearly and explicitly labelled as a ‚sustainability strategy," or a clearly identifiable stand-alone section(s) in another document that describes its sustainability strategy. This strategy must include all the following three aspects:
The strategy must include forward looking aspects.
The strategy must focus on integrating environmental, social and economic development (e.g. improving local conditions; increasing employment) considerations into its business, operations and planning. Hence the sustainability strategy shall not be seen as a separate, peripheral activity, but as central to the company’s operations.
The strategy must at least cover the priority material impacts (A01.B).
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Aggregate Data Report