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Benchmark findings point to finance leaders needing to double down on sustainability, not back away
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WBA highlights power and potential of world’s 2,000 most influential companies to protect people and planet
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Navigating Nature: The ‘alphabet soup’ of biodiversity initiatives
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Where are we at with the New Urban Agenda’s progress? We have “enough declarations, we need action and commitments”
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Tracing Risk and Opportunity: The Critical Need for Traceability in Today’s Seafood Supply Chains
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Research shows global automotive transition stalls as companies struggle to scale electrification efforts
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WBA at the 2025 World Economic Forum in Davos
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Webinar: Ocean Benchmark
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COP16 reflections: the good, the bad and the unresolved
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The World Benchmarking Alliance at COP29
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New research reveals urban companies are failing to build inclusive, affordable and sustainable cities
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World Food Day 2024: Corporate action is needed to achieve zero hunger
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WBA at COP16
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WBA and ITU publish third annual joint report assessing digital companies’ climate commitments and progress
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Assessing Transition Plans Collective (ATP-Col)
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What’s next for Investor Engagement on Ethical AI?
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New data on ethical AI to ring in the Global Digital Compact
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What will the the UN’s Pact for the Future mean for strengthening corporate accountability
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Nature and Climate: why the world can’t afford to keep them separate
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Summit of the Future and the UN General Assembly 2024
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For consultation: ACT Framework update
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Research shows major companies around the world are failing to assess and measure their impact on nature
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2024 Climate Week NYC events
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What will the state of corporate accountability look like three years from now?
Are companies ready for the EU supply chain law?
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Launch event for the Collective Impact Coalition on Food Loss and Waste
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Driving corporate action and accountability for food systems transformation
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90% of world’s 2,000 most influential companies failing to ensure human rights, decent work and ethical conduct
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For consultation: Assessing companies Transition Plans Collective (ATP-Col) guidance document
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Virtual launch of the 2024 Social Benchmark
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HLPF official side event: Ensuring that no one is left behind – the role of corporate action
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Driving corporate accountability in Asia: Q and A with Anthony Cheung
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What does the Corporate Sustainable Reporting Directive mean for the Global South?
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WBA hosting press conference at Bonn Climate Change Conference
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Request for proposals for WBA’s new self-assessment tool
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WSIS Forum 2024: Tackling AI challenges
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The business of urban sustainability: Can the private sector contribute to thriving cities?
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Four ways that the investment industry can tackle gender inequality in its portfolios
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New research shows heavy industries could be the ‘cement’ that keeps a just climate transition on course
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For a sustainable planet, we need liveable cities
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Request for proposals for services as WBA research partner from 2024-2026
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The Summit of the Future must ensure our global agendas are consequential to business
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Transition of Ranking Digital Rights from New America to the World Benchmarking Alliance
Measuring company impacts on small-scale producers in Thailand
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Assessing companies’ impacts on the health of the ocean
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From New York City to Bangladesh: advancing gender equality in the garment industry
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WBA, investors and civil society call on tech companies for more ambitious ethical AI practices
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Virtual launch: Urban Benchmark Methodology
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2024 Allies Assembly: From 11 to 13 June in Bangkok
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Using the Nature Benchmark to monitor the CSRD’s impact and effectiveness
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Launching the next phase of the Collective Impact Coalition for Ethical AI
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Request for proposals for services as the 2024 Urban Benchmark research provider
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Open letter to G20 Sustainable Finance Working Group
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From Dubai to Davos: Activating a New Era in Transition Finance
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World Benchmarking Alliance identifies 2,000 most influential companies globally who can help or hinder achieving the SDGs
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Multiple benchmarks show financial institutions struggling to demonstrate respect for human rights
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EU legislators must put people and small holders at the centre of incoming corporate accountability legislation
Assessing National Oil Companies’ transition plans: an essential tool for banks, investors and regulators
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The road to COP28
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Transforming food systems with small-scale food producers at its heart
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Fashion brands putting millions of workers at risk with gaps on human rights and gender equality, shows new research
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As COP28 approaches, research shows world’s electric utilities companies are progressing towards a renewable energy transition but pace of change is too slow
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WBA responds to GFANZ consultation on transition finance
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Moving from pledges to implementation: a guide for corporate just transition action
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Socialisation of the Urban Benchmark Methodology in APUF8: Private Actors, Partnerships, Accountability for Urban Development
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Addressing power imbalance in global supply chains
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Request for proposal for services as the research provider for social transformation and just transition work
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Parallel Session at the Eighth Asia-Pacific Urban Forum (APUF-8)
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World’s largest seafood companies continue to lack transparency on social and environmental impacts
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Research finds more than 90% of food and agriculture companies don’t do enough to farm sustainably or provide healthy food
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From boardrooms to childcare: the role of businesses in fostering gender equality
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ASEAN pushes for inclusive business models for sustainable growth
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UNGA 78 – Closing the corporate accountability gap in pursuit of sustainable development
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Tackling challenges of AI: The Collective Impact Coalition for digital inclusion
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Climate Week NYC Events
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Navigating investor sustainability pressures: A path to thriving in a changing landscape
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Bridging the divide in climate finance: The EU’s leadership in directing climate finance to low-and-middle-income countries
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Call to embed corporate accountability in the UN food systems stocktaking process
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Research reveals no oil and gas companies have plans in place to phase out fossil fuels
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Launch of the 2023 Oil and Gas Benchmark
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Call for the ISSB to prioritise the development of a thematic social-related disclosures standard
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Making benchmarking data more transparent, accessible, and impactful
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Collective Impact Coalition for Digital Inclusion
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Side event at Urban Future Stuttgart 23: ‘Spurring the private sector to create resilient and sustainable cities’
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What corporate accountability means for the Global Biodiversity Framework
Policy Brief: Digital Inclusion G7 submission
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Position Statement: UN Global Digital Compact, Informal consultations
Request for proposal for independent evaluation of the World Benchmarking Alliance
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Allies Assembly 2023 in Mexico City
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2023 Global Stocktake: How can governments ensure it delivers on its mandate?
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Join us at the One Planet network’s Sustainable Food Systems Programme
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Research reveals building sector is dangerously behind on climate progress and planning for net-zero
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Position Statement: UN High-level Expert group report on Net-Zero Emissions Commitments of Non-State Entities
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The sustainability skill gap in the boardroom: how can companies bridge it?
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Less than 14% of world’s major tech companies deliver on digital inclusion
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Launch of the 2023 Digital Inclusion Benchmark at World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS Forum 2023)
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New investor collaboration will engage the seafood sector on key nature risks and impacts
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Financial System Benchmark informs response to the US Fed climate-related risk draft principles
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How can we ensure that the energy transition is fair to all?
Request for proposal for services as the research provider for our 2023 Gender Benchmark
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Communiqué de presse: Nature Benchmark 2022
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Nature is a blind spot for major companies despite its importance for their operations and people
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Launch of the 2022 Corporate Human Rights Benchmark
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New research shows the urgent need for legislation to accelerate business action on human rights
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New research shows lack of transparency and alignment of financial institutions across all urgent sustainability challenges
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Driving accountability: Access to energy
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#MakeItMandatory: Why corporate accountability is imperative for the success of the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework
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The World Benchmarking Alliance at COP27
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New research highlights an urgent need for the transport sector to collaborate and scale sustainable fuels
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The World Benchmarking Alliance, Fidelity International and Boston Common launch coalition to address AI ethical risks
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A joint call to engage with the Japanese government regarding its newly adopted business and human rights guidelines
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FAQ’s / Fact Sheet on ethical AI
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Launch event for the Collective Impact Coalition for digital inclusion: Advancing ethical and responsible AI
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Alliance Action Forum at UNGA 77
Request for proposal for services as the food and agriculture research provider 2023
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Driving accountability: Adaptation
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Driving accountability: Loss and Damage
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Insights and learnings on regenerative agriculture from the private sector
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WBA Submits Comment Letters to ISSB on Climate and Sustainability Related Disclosures
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A glimpse at our Urban Benchmark
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Setting the tone at the top: the importance of policy commitments to human rights
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Why is the seafood industry so murky on sustainability and how can we change it?
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WBA and ITU publish joint report assessing digital companies’ climate commitments and progress
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Recommendations for the US National Action Plan on Responsible Business Conduct
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WBA and ADEME announce strategic partnership
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Tech companies take steps towards net zero
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Our response to the European Commission’s proposal for a corporate sustainability due diligence and amending Directive (EU) 2019/1937
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Driving corporate action towards responsible and ethical artificial intelligence
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Circularity is in Nature – How circularity still features in our Nature Benchmark
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Allies Assembly 2022 in South Africa
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Accelerating nature positive corporate and collective action
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Recommendations for the Japanese government’s proposed guidelines on human rights due diligence
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Investors write to 100 oil and gas companies urging them to put people at the heart of decarbonisation plans
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Assessing the role of digital platforms in data governance and ethics
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50 new digital technology companies to be ranked in Digital Inclusion Benchmark
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Multi-stakeholder collaboration for responsible and ethical artificial intelligence
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Human rights snapshots of companies: Lessons from Denmark, Finland, Ireland and Belgium
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Webinar: Launch of Digital Inclusion Benchmark Insights Report
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Moving the needle on female representation in the tech industry
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Nature Benchmark: Draft Methodology Consultations 2022
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Report finds only 1% of companies demonstrate fundamentals of social responsibility
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We need to close the corporate accountability gap
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SDG2000: the 2,000 most influential companies in 2022
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Human rights risks and the need for an outside-in perspective
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Virtual launch of the 2022 Social Transformation Baseline Assessment
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Confronting business models that put people at risk: The why and the how
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Apple, Cisco, and Samsung jump up the rankings in the latest Digital Inclusion Benchmark
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Virtual launch: Financial System Benchmark Methodology
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ASEAN Food Systems Policy CoLAB
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Bringing the voices of women workers to the fore: gender inclusivity in garment factories
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It is time for the ‘S’ in ESG to take centre stage
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Electric Utilities and Automotive industries increasingly off track against climate targets, according to first sector studies released since COP26
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Why the IFRS Foundation’s announcement at COP26 is an important first step towards corporate accountability
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Virtual launch of the 2021 Digital Inclusion Benchmark
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Together, we multiply impact
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The way towards living wages and incomes in the food system
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Leading international organisations launch platform to address calls for clarity on how to improve sustainability impacts
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Scaling up expectations: How to show serious action on tackling forced labour and recruitment fees
Working collectively with Allies to drive impact on workforce nutrition
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Introducing our revised methodology for the Corporate Human Rights Benchmark
It is key we step up and accelerate change
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Road to COP: How should investors approach the oil and gas sector?
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In memory of John Ruggie: Tribute by Paul Druckman, Chairman of the World Benchmarking Alliance
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Seafood industry taking action on environmental issues but falling short on human rights
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Allies Assembly 2021
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Join us: Road to COP26
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Virtual launch of the 2021 Access to Seeds Index for Eastern and Southern Africa
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A real difference in digital responsibility
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Virtual launch of the 2021 Seafood Stewardship Index
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Why benchmarks matter for climate-smart business
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Access to Seeds Index shows companies moving to ‘greener pastures’
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Big food companies failing on climate and human rights
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Investing in inclusive digitalisation: a government and investor roundtable
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Virtual launch of the 2021 Food and Agriculture Benchmark
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Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic: How can Canadian companies fulfil their responsibility to respect human rights and meet stakeholder expectations on the SDGs?
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Looking back at HLPF 2021
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WBA launches Oil and Gas Benchmark
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WBA at the UN Food Systems Pre-Summit
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Assessing nutrition across the food value chain
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A common toolkit towards a 1.5 future
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Transition to the 1.5°C future: Where do 100 Oil and Gas Companies Stand?
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Fast on fashion, slow on gender equality
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Multi-stakeholder collaboration: Achieving digital inclusion in Africa
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Moving to nature-positive: mobilising business action to transform systems
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Summary of Policy Colab: EU CSRD with Accountancy Europe
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Ally Voices
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Human rights of children online: examining the role of the private sector
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Financial System Benchmark: Draft Methodology Consultations 2021
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The Role of the G7 in Ensuring a Just and Sustainable Recovery (Policy CoLab Action Brief)
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Virtual launch: UNGPs 10+ stocktaking report on institutional investment
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Virtual launch of the 2021 Gender Benchmark
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Implementing CFS Guidelines for people and planet: the role of the private sector
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Working towards digital inclusion: digital companies share lessons
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Africa roundtable on digital inclusion
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Closing the implementation gap in India’s agenda for business and the SDGs (Policy CoLab Action Brief)
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Sustainability standards: a bumpy road ahead without a north star
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Introducing WBA’s Collective Impact Coalitions
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Open letter to the SDG2000 CEOs
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50 more tech companies to be ranked in Digital Inclusion Benchmark
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Increasing the ambition of Corporate Sustainability Reporting
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Emerging priority areas for private sector engagement at the UN Food Systems Summit
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Just transition draft methodology: open for public consultation
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Growing our culture: Well-being and resilience during a pandemic
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Benchmarking is a powerful way to influence the behaviour of companies
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The story of WBA’s Alliance – crossing the ‘200’ mark
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Our commitment to gender equality
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Rights, resilience and sustainability: How companies can build forward stronger in the Asia Pacific
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Seeds, Smallholders, and the SDGs: Africa and Building Forward Better
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Webinar 25th February: Measuring and incentivizing companies to leave no one behind
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Get to know the SDG2000 keystone companies better
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With greater influence comes greater responsibility
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World Benchmarking Alliance names this year’s 2000 most influential companies towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals
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A clear vision on the just transition will boost efforts to reach the SDGs
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In finance we trust
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What support for public policymakers to pilot and foster low-carbon transition?
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A tale of two automotive companies: sluggish incumbents and opaque disruptors in the race to zero-emissions vehicles
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Urge mandatory emissions disclosure by companies to achieve decarbonisation goals
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Human Rights assessment, an art and a science
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Watch in full: the launch of the very first Digital Inclusion Benchmark
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Digital Inclusion Benchmark launches
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2020年数字包容基准
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Are companies on track for food systems transformation?
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Ally Voices
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Corporate respect for human rights: where are we now?
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A domino effect to transform to a low-carbon future
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2020 Corporate Human Rights Benchmark launches
Most businesses failing on human rights due diligence, major ranking shows
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Ranking the 100 most influential tech companies on digital inclusion
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Event launch of the 2020 CHRB
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Ally Voices
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Let’s not forget about seaFOOD on World Food Day
Request for proposal for services as a WBA research provider in 2021
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I work in Climate Action, and I feel both scared and hopeful every day
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Consultation roundtables for the Financial System Benchmark
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How UNGA’s financing meeting can help the world build forward stronger
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Transforming finance for the Decade of Action
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It’s a man’s world: Men still dominate the most influential companies in the world
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Make invisible women visible: the roadmap to gender equality and women’s empowerment
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The SDGs & WBA in a COVID era: A Foundation for Response & Recovery
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WBA co-hosts a parallel session with our Ally CRB at UNGA 2020
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WBA hosts #SDGActionZone breakout session at UNGA 2020
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29 September 2020 – Driving corporate commitments on gender equality and women’s health
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Ally Voices
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Black Lives Matter – Blog Series Part 2: Personal reflections on lived experiences
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Empowering smallholder farmers is key for a successful food system transformation
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Ally Voices
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Don’t put your waste on me
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Allies Assembly 2020
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Accessibility and affordability of healthy foods for all
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Black Lives Matter, WBA and the SDGs – Blog Series
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CHRB response to the destruction of a 46,000-year-old Aboriginal heritage site by Rio Tinto
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Join our virtual dialogue at WSIS on benchmarking the 100 most influential ICT companies to drive digital inclusion globally
The social transformation methodology: Join one or more consultation roundtables in July and August
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Regenerating the food and agriculture system
Strengthening the CHRB’s approach going forward
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Driving impact for inclusive digital development
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Now is the time to come together for nature
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WBA announces strengthened supervisory board to galvanise global systems change
Reform of the EU Non-Financial Reporting Directive: clarity, consistency and comparability across value chains
Putting people at the heart of the SDG2000 benchmarks
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Phased approach for the Gender Benchmark in times of COVID-19
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Digital inclusion through digital skills
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The just transition: leave no one behind
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Digital inclusion is more than just access
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Benchmarking the 100 most influential ICT companies to drive digital inclusion globally
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Gender Benchmark – feedback received on the draft methodology
Investors with over US$4.5 trillion in assets criticise weak human rights performance of leading companies
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Investors with over US$4.5 trillion in assets criticise weak human rights performance of leading companies
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What goes around comes around
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We are a fifth of the way there! Let’s hope we are not living on a prayer
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Onwards, together!
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Are the large emitters setting Science Based Targets?
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Farmers at WBA Farmer Roundtables 2019 emphasise social inclusion as priority for food system transformation
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SDG2000: The most influential 2000 companies for a sustainable future
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Tick tock, tick tock….Happy new year and here’s to a new decade
Companies and investors convene to discuss human rights issues in landmark meeting
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About creating useful indicators for the Digital Inclusion Benchmark
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Heading towards Paris with the brakes on
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Car companies in danger of missing Paris climate targets, new analysis warns
CHRB launches third benchmark to show how 200 companies perform on human rights
How could improved nutrition contribute to a food system transformation?
What’s needed to get impact measurement right?
WBA launches first of its kind global benchmark ranking seafood companies on their UN SDG impact
Announcing WBAs commitment to measure and rank the 100 most influential ICT companies
How are you going to impact your ecosystem?
Mapping the landscape for the Food and Agriculture Benchmark
Request for Proposal for Services as the CHRB Research Provider for 2020
WBA and CDP announce strategic partnership to future proof high carbon emitting sectors
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Progress on the development of the Gender Equality & Empowerment Benchmark
WBA welcomes Paul Druckman as new Chairman of the Board
Initial selection of industries and companies for WBA’s Food and Agriculture Benchmark now open for public consultation
New study identifies Nigeria as leading seed hub in Western and Central Africa
Building momentum in Mumbai
Homegrown African seed companies outperform multinational peers in serving smallholder farmers
Setting a new seafood standard
Event
Digging deeper into SDG 5: measuring and incentivising corporate performance on gender
Global seed companies are addressing climate change and nutrition needs but reach only 10% of the world’s small farmers
Statement
CHRB Response to Brumadinho Dam Disaster – Vale Suspension from Human Rights Benchmark
First consultation SSI successfully completed
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Allies for Action: Driving Business Action on the Sustainable Development Goals through the World Benchmarking Alliance
An irresistible invitation
East-West Seed leads seed industry on increasing smallholder farmer productivity in South and Southeast Asia
WBA is announced as one of ten project winners at Paris Peace Forum – Congratulations Allies!
4 in 10 companies ‘failing’ on human rights – major new ranking
‘4 in 10 companies ‘failing’ on human rights’
Engaging the world’s seafood industry in meeting the SDGs
The Alliance: Collectively shaping the way forward
“The lack of good, long-term leadership is a major challenge to the sustainability agenda”
“Our objective is simple: to make business the greatest force for good in our planet”
“SDG 17 is there for a reason”
“It’s time to step up the pace in our push towards the SDGs”
The five reasons benchmarks work
Benchmarks – a fantastic tool for everyone
Draft methodology report for Seafood Stewardship Index – Press release
Channelling competitive spirits for positive impact
Young people and the sustainability agenda: Three avenues for impact
“Change cannot be done for us, it must be done with us”
Building a bridge of trust
“It’s time to re-shape how money impacts tomorrow”
The start of the Impact Management Project network
Launching the WBA – Press release
“An ambition infinitely bigger than the realm of any single institution”
“Transformative change requires transformative approaches to problem-solving”
“The WBA helps to drive forward capital market reform”
Moving towards the launch of WBA
The first online consultation results are in: What are key priorities, SDGs and industries for a better 2030?
Pension funds and responsible investment: let participants decide
Perspectives from our Buenos Aires roundtable
A new take on GDPR
How do food and beverage companies contribute to solving global nutrition challenges?
CHRB is a great source of inspiration for us at the World Benchmarking Alliance
A 6000-strong survey campaign in China
Achieving the SDGs through an industry’s long tail
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Another look back on our regional and global roundtables
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The research behind the consultations
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A look back on our regional and global roundtables
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Connecting the World Benchmarking Alliance with China
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Raising the Bar: Business and the SDGs
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Discussion on the World Benchmarking Alliance in Davos
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Why We Need to Measure Corporate Performance on the SDGs
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SDG benchmarks and standards – why ISEAL supports the WBA
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’17 SDGs represent 17 opportunities for investments’
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Avoiding ‘SDG Washing’: Human Rights in SDG Benchmarks
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An important and timely initiative
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“On this planet, we are all one team”
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Getting it right and making it happen
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Keystone Actors as Catalysts for Change
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Benchmarks can be Key Drivers for Change
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Turning Sustainability into a Competitive Race to the Top Takes All of Us
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Join the Webinar on Benchmarking Corporate Action on the SDGs
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Happy to be an Ally
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Press Release – Launch of the Consultation Phase
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Launching the World Benchmarking Alliance
New benchmark to drive corporate competition to improve human rights