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About WBA
Founded in 2018, the World Benchmarking Alliance (WBA) is a non-profit organisation holding 2,000 of the world’s most influential companies accountable for their part in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It does this by publishing free and publicly available benchmarks on their performance and showing what good corporate practice looks like.
WBA assesses companies in various benchmarks where relevant every second year, revealing where each company stands in comparison to its peers, where it can improve and where urgent action is needed. The benchmarks provide companies with a clear roadmap of the commitments and changes needed to meet science and society’s expectations of them. They equip all stakeholders, from governments and financial institutions to civil society organisations and individuals – including our community of ‘Allies’ – with the insights that they need to collectively hold the private sector accountable.
About the Nature Benchmark
The Nature Benchmark tracks and measures how companies are reducing their negative impacts on nature and contributing to the protection and restoration of ecosystems.
The level of action and progress these large businesses make will directly affect whether we achieve the goals of the Global Biodiversity Framework.
The Nature Benchmark was created back in 2021, when the scope of WBA’s former ‘Circular Transformation’ was expanded to cover nature and biodiversity, as recognition of the need for greater understanding, transparency and accountability of business impact on our environment.
Since 2022 until 2024, WBA assessed 816 companies in the Nature Benchmark across more than 20 industries.
After the results of the benchmark, WBA noted that some seafood and non-seafood companies (shipping, apparel agriculture) do not seem to pay enough attention to their impact on marine ecosystems. Therefore in 2026, WBA is planning to expand its Nature Benchmark work with an ‘Ocean Spotlight’ assessment, which will measure at least 100 companies in various key sectors, including seafood, on their contribution to halt and reverse nature loss in marine ecosystems.
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