Projects Archive – Capitals Coalition

A-Track

A-Track brings together leading thought leaders and practitioners who have been driving change in the measurement and valuation of natural capital and biodiversity in business, finance and government. Partners have led the development or implementation of guidelines and standards for measurement of nature impacts and dependencies for improved decision-making, including: biodiversity footprinting, natural capital assessment and accounting, and business models and finance that contribute to nature positive outcomes.

Forestry Natural Capital Project

The forestry sector leads positive change. This is why a pioneering global initiative, the Forestry Natural Capital Project, has been launched to establish a unified framework for Natural Capital Accounting and Reporting across the sustainable forestry sector.

Nature on the Balance Sheet Initiative

There is a need for a fundamental shift in our economic system, one that integrates nature into economic and financial decisions. Nature is a critical asset for future growth, for businesses, economies, and societies at large: this recognition will drive economic stability, manage physical and transition risks, and create a new nature-based model of inclusive development.

SELINA – Science for Evidence-based and Sustainable Decisions about Natural Capital

SELINA is a 5-year EU funded project that aims to deliver guidance for evidence-based decision-making that supports the protection, restoration, and sustainable use of the environment.

Valuing Human Capital in Occupational Health & Safety

This project will engage current and future occupational health & safety professionals around the importance of valuing the health, safety and the wellbeing of workers through a capitals approach as set out in the Social & Human Capital Protocol.

SUSTAIN – Strengthening Understanding and Strategies of Business to Assess and Integrate Nature

All businesses depend on healthy, biodiverse, and functioning ecosystems, either through their direct operations and through their supply chains. Actors across society must work towards enabling transformative change to shift away from negative practices and move towards a system that is nature-positive. The SUSTAIN project worked with businesses, financial institutions and regulatory bodies to help them understand how their impacts and dependencies on nature affect their operations and profits, through capacity building and the provision of tools and technical skills needed to comprehensively integrate the value of nature into their decision-making.

Value Accounting Network

A collaboration to harmonize and build consistency in the value accounting space and in how it is applied within organizations.

Transparent

Transparent was an EU LIFE funded project that developed standardized natural capital accounting and valuation principles for business in line with the ambition of the European Green Deal.

Government Dialogue

A global dialogue bringing governments together to share best practices and strengthen the enabling environment for integrating natural capital and the capitals approach into public sector decision-making.