The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) has released a Nature Action Portal, a new digital resource to help companies turn ambition into measurable action and direct investment toward solutions that credibly contribute to halting and reversing nature loss by 2030.
As nature degradation and pressure to act accelerates, businesses face a complex landscape of frameworks, metrics, and disclosure requirements. WBCSD said Nature Action Portal offers a practical, user-friendly resource to help sustainability practitioners navigate the landscape in which they operate. In a few clicks, users can identify metrics to drive action across their operations and supply chains.
“Meaningful and comparable data is vital for companies to signal risks to financial markets and stakeholders, and to justify the investments needed to address them. Yet with an overwhelming number of metrics, consistency remains out of reach,” said Peter Bakker, President & CEO, WBCSD. “The Nature Action Portal seeks to simplify and harmonize the use of nature-related metrics by providing companies with a practical pathway to identify, measure and disclose the actions to address their most material dependencies and impacts.”
Co-created with more than 100 leading companies, 6 service providers, and dozens of external partners, the Portal aims to help companies:
- Explore actions across operations and supply chains to halt and reverse nature loss
- Identify relevant metrics and targets linked to actions
- Align with key nature-related frameworks to measure and disclose progress transparently and consistently
The first version of the Portal features actionable insights for five sectors (agri-food, forest products, energy, built environment, and pharmaceuticals); along with two supply chains (bio-based materials flowing from the agri-food and forest sectors); and one cross-cutting topic (water), all rigorously tested with members and stakeholders throughout 2024–2025.
The initiative seeks to support the harmonization of existing nature-related corporate action and disclosure frameworks, and to enhance their practical application through a user-friendly portal that helps sustainability practitioners to navigate through extensive guidance.
“I am pleased to see WBCSD and the Nature Positive Initiative carrying forward the Nature Measurement Protocol initiative recommended by the TNFD in its recent nature data recommendations,” said Tony Goldner, CEO, Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures. “We look forward to supporting their shared leadership on this effort which will be critical to provide market participants with specific guidance on measurement methodologies for key nature-related metrics already recommended by the TNFD, SBTN and others. While that work progresses, the Nature Action Portal offers a practical tool to help sustainability practitioners navigate and implement regulatory and voluntary frameworks such as the TNFD.”
The Nature Action Portal was developed with support from Arcadis, The Biodiversity Consultancy, Environmental Resource Management (ERM), EY, PwC and Quantis, a BCG company.
