Impact
Overview of our latest collaborations, statements and examples of good company practices
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Plugging the AI transparency gap: Collective Impact Coalition for Ethical AI 2025 Progress Report
Statement
A call for credible climate transition plans
A multi-stakeholder call for credible climate transition plans
Advancing living wages at the Second World Summit for Social Development – A collective call to action to UN Member States
Annual reports
2024 Annual Report
Case study
Mobilising multi-stakeholder networks for corporate accountability through our Collective Impact Coalitions (CICs)
Case study
Assessing WBA’s relationship with Civil Society Organisations
Investors
Investor statement on violence and harassment in supply chains
Case study
Addressing disparities in global engagement
How to ensure inclusive and impactful CSDDD implementation
Linking people and planet for effective due diligence
Investing sustainably in emerging markets – a call to action
Investors
Investor Statement on Nature
Statement
Governments must ‘own’ the Global Digital Compact
Stories
How WBA engages with policymakers towards ambitious goals like the EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive
Stories
How WBA benchmarks are being used as independent monitoring tools by civil society
WBA’s submission for the ASEAN Community Vision 2045
Stories
How bringing stakeholders together can influence companies and facilitate action
A multi-stakeholder call to action for companies to address violence and harassment in their supply chains
Unlocking Asian Sustainable Business: Highlights from our Allies Assembly Finance Day
Stories
Investors are using our benchmarks to hold companies to account for their impacts
Stories
How WBA is contributing to changing companies’ policies and practices
Statement
Recommendations for the draft ASEAN Declaration on Environmental Rights
All you need to know about the Nature Collective Impact Coalition
Statement
Articulation of tech companies’ accountability in Global Digital Compact key to bridging digital divide
Annual reports
2023 Annual Report
The 2023 independent evaluation of WBA
Investors
2024 Investor statement on Ethical AI
All you need to know about the Collective Impact Coalition for Ethical AI
Case study
How benchmarking initiatives support investors with shaping companies’ sustainability strategies
Alliance Storybook
Case study
The role of benchmarking in improving the inclusion of women and girls in Tech
Case study
The role of benchmarking in improving business practices towards human rights in the automotive manufacturing sector
Digital Inclusion Collective Impact Coalition 2023 Progress Report
Stories
How our benchmarks are driving companies to improve sustainability practices
Stories
How investors and banks are using our methodologies and benchmarks to act
Investors
Investor allies’ journey with us
Stories
General Motors improves its practices following recommendations from our Corporate Human Rights Benchmark
Annual reports
2022 Annual Report
Investors
Project AGM: Company updates for investor voting at Annual General Meetings
Statement
Investor Statement for a Just Transition
Joint Statement on the Responsible and Ethically beneficial design, development and use of AI
How do governments and international organisations use the Corporate Human Rights Benchmark?
How do companies use the Corporate Human Rights Benchmark?
How do investors use the Corporate Human Rights Benchmark?
Statement
Investor Statement on Ethical AI
Leading practices
Traceability | Leading practices from the 2021 Seafood Stewardship Index
Leading practices
Social responsibility | Leading practices from the 2021 Seafood Stewardship Index
Leading practices
Ecosystems | Leading practices from the 2021 Seafood Stewardship Index
Leading practices
Governance and strategy | Leading practices from the 2021 Seafood Stewardship Index
Annual reports
2021 Annual Report
Leading practices
Governance and strategy | Leading practices from the 2021 Food and Agriculture Benchmark
Leading practices
Social | Leading practices from the 2021 Food and Agriculture Benchmark
Leading practices
Nutrition | Leading practices from the 2021 Food and Agriculture Benchmark
Leading practices
Environment | Leading practices from the 2021 Food and Agriculture Benchmark
Statement
G7 launch pledge for business action towards a sustainable and resilient food system
Statement
Investor Statement in support of a G7 Sustainable Supply Chain Initiative
Stories of our Alliance
Why benchmarking works: one company’s experience
How others have used our social methodologies to assess companies: country examples
Alliance Storybook
Annual reports
2020 Annual Report
Independent evaluation of WBA
UN at 75: The WBA, inclusive multilateralism and the SDGs
Partnerships for change
Investors with over US$4.5 trillion in assets criticise weak human rights performance of leading companies
Annual reports
2019 Annual Report
Call for improved UN Sustainable Development Goals disclosures
Annual reports
2018 Annual Report