Organization Directory
The Capitals Coalition is a global collaboration redefining value to transform decision making.
We unite leading initiatives and organizations under a common vision of a world that conserves and enhances all forms of capital.
The Coalition is made up of over 450 organizations and engages many thousands more, who together represent all parts of society. These organizations fall into seven broad stakeholder groups or ‘worlds’: Business, Finance, Government, Science, Accounting and Standards, Civil Society and Multi-stakeholder Groups.
Coalition organizations share a common belief that we can do more together than we can alone, and an understanding that it is only by bringing the many different parts of the system together as part of a purpose-led conversation that we can we affect real change. The Coalition’s strength comes from this belief, and from the diversity it brings.
Natural Eco Capital
Natural Eco Capital
Natural Eco Capital was formed to drive for more sustainable resilient economy through the integration of natural capital into the fabrics of businesses and strategy in the sub-Saharan Africa – especially Nigeria – through collaboration with various stakeholders.
Natural Eco Capital stands to change the status quo through collaborative efforts directed at raising the level of knowledge and understanding of natural capital issues.
Natural Eco Capital shares the Coalition’s vision. This was demonstrated with the participation of one of our Directors at the World Forum on Natural Capital in Edinburg, 2015. Since the ‘Coalition’s strength comes from the diversity, and a shared belief that more can be achieved together than alone,’ Natural Eco Capital believes being part of the Coalition will assist to bring more information on African dimension to the noble ideas and activities of the Coalition.
We see the Natural Capital Coalition as a platform to meet a number of our objectives in the reframing of ‘nature as the solution to global challenges’. Natural Eco Capital members see it as a duty not only to ourselves but the future generation to ensure a more sustainable order through collaborative efforts.
Abbaty JSC
Abbaty JSC
Abbaty JSC is a Bulgarian software company experienced in the development and deployment of complex software solutions in the public and private sectors.
Several of our projects are environmentally oriented, with the Ministry of Environment and Water of Bulgaria being the Contracting Authority. We are very interested in the development of software expert systems and solutions relation to the valuation of ecosystem services and natural capital. We believe that our experience and expertise in the field of IT technologies will contribute to the Coalition’s mission of enabling a shift towards a world where business measures and values natural capital.
We will:
- Apply the principles of the Natural Capital Protocol in our software system development.
- Provide access to reliable data for the valuation of ecosystem services through the use of IT technologies.
- Help organizations to incorporate natural capital into business decisions and corporate strategy.
Natural Capital Solutions
Natural Capital Solutions
Natural Capital Solutions specialises in biodiversity and ecosystem services (ES) research and consulting. We help organisations assess and value natural capital, to enable informed decisions about how they manage their assets. We describe, quantify and spatially map the current state of natural capital, the physical flows of ES, and the values of the benefits that derive from them, and can model how they might change in different future scenarios. We offer training on how to approach the natural capital, ecosystem services and ecosystem approach concepts, how they can benefit organisations, and be successfully integrated into business practice and decision-making. We run training workshops, write briefing notes, introductory guides and detailed guidance, and are experts at operationalising the approach across different sectors. We also offer technical advice on a range of natural capital approaches (e.g. land use opportunity mapping, natural capital accounting, natural capital investment plans), that once a baseline assessment has been made, can be used to guide land use, business risk assessment and investment decisions. We ensure that organisations have the evidence to reveal the aspects of natural capital on which their business depends, the extent of the impacts of their activities, and how they can enhance their natural capital assets, for both the benefit of their business and for wider society.
Natural Capital Project
Natural Capital Project
The Natural Capital Project works to integrate the value nature provides to society into all major decisions. Our ultimate objective is to improve the well-being of all people and nature by motivating greater and more targeted natural capital investments. We operate as a partnership between Stanford University and the University of Minnesota, The Nature Conservancy, and World Wildlife Fund. Uniquely positioned as neither an academic institution nor an NGO, we inhabit the space between the two to deliver top-notch science and tools to bring the value of natural capital into real-world decisions. Members of our team were among the group of technical experts who developed the Natural Capital Protocol. Our free open-source software tools can be useful at various stage and steps of the Protocol (as outlined in the Natural Capital Protocol Toolkit being developed by WBCSD).
Starting with listening, we work with decision-makers to develop solutions. We use iterative engagement that begins with stakeholders and their needs, so the new science and tools that we develop are immediately relevant and can be incorporated into existing decision processes. We work in a wide array of places and sectors, developing nature-based solutions to problems as varied as: building resilience to climate and coastal hazards in Belize and the Gulf Coast states of the United States; guiding development planning in British Columbia, The Bahamas, and Myanmar; managing corporate risk in global sourcing decisions for Unilever; informing impact assessment and permitting for the Colombian Ministry of the Environment; making smart transportation loan decisions by the Inter-American Development Bank across Latin America; and targeting investments in forest restoration for IUCN and country governments in Africa. In addition to developing the evidence for the power of natural capital approaches to transform decisions, we create software (now downloaded in 160 countries), build capacity through learning exchanges and trainings, and engage leaders to accelerate the uptake and magnify the impact of successes to date.
We have learned that to truly build capacity within our community of practice, multiple engagements that gradually grow the skills of our learners is required. We offer a wide range of courses to help you learn to use our approaches and our free, open-source software tools, including InVEST, RIOS, and OPAL, when following the Natural Capital Protocol. Starting with basic concepts and building to project-specific, in-depth support, we hope to help you find what you need to use ecosystem services to inform decisions. We also host the annual Natural Capital Symposium to convene our growing community of practice for panel sessions, learning exchanges, workshops, and working groups.
LP Natural Capital
LP Natural Capital
LP Natural Capital views the integration of natural capital into decision making and business accounts as key to mitigating climate change. We promote this in the UK and Europe, whilst implementing such actions via our NGO in Brazil, the Amazon Natural Capital Institute (ANCI). Following recent legislation on a legal framework for payments for ecosystem services in Amazonas State, Brazil, the ANCI is now partnered with the Amazonas State Government to support the development of natural capital tools to leverage the legislation. As a result, we are in a firm position to develop and enable the policy environment surrounding natural capital and its data flow, help develop systems specific to the Amazon biome, whilst encouraging the use of the Natural Capital Protocol and supporting the shift in corporate behaviour to enhance rather than deplete natural capital. As deforestation is increasing again in the State, the Natural Capital Coalition’s effort, coordination and membership will provide important support and influence to tackle the issue.
Arcadis
Arcadis
Arcadis was part of the team responsible for developing the Natural Capital Protocol. Through our global presence we are able to provide our clients with the necessary support on regional and global issues with regard to natural capital. Arcadis has over many years worked with a wide range of clients on very different projects and can support clients in the following ways:
• Identification of natural capital impacts and dependencies (corporate level, site level, value chain level, product level) and the associated risks and opportunities (based on robust materiality assessment criteria and techniques).
• Measuring and valuing natural capital impacts and dependencies, including the identification of pragmatic indicators.
• Valuation of changes in natural capital; valuation techniques for both societal values and business values.
• Natural Capital Protocol compliance checks – How does your strategy fit with the Stages, Steps and principles of the Natural Capital Protocol?
• Specific expertise in challenging natural capital components such as biodiversity. How to develop pragmatic indicators for biodiversity? Which are suitable No Net Loss approaches? We have extensive experience with Natural Resource Damage Assessment (NRDA) and Habitat Equivalency Analysis (HEA) to support the quantification of the services provided by natural capital in upstream, midstream, downstream and retirement of assets, globally.
• Specific expertise in Green Infrastructure and Nature Based Solutions: option appraisal, design, assessment of natural capital benefits and business value, training (Arcadis contributed to the WBCSD/UNEP online, free training course on Natural Infrastructure for Business (NI4Biz)).
• Specific expertise in maximizing asset value: optimizing natural capital design in order to increase resilience to climate change, increase biodiversity value, reduce operating costs, etc.
• Defining your Natural Capital Strategy and Action Plan on corporate, site, value chain, product level.
• Developing and conducting trainings on natural capital. We have done so for larger companies as well as small and medium enterprises.
• Specific expertise in natural capital incentive mechanisms (regulatory, voluntary) such as Payments for Ecosystem Services, temporary nature, etc.
Arcadis was also one of the pilot testers for the Natural Capital Protocol. This, along with our contribution to the Dutch Green Deal “Transparency Natural and Social Capital” in collaboration with 21 other Dutch businesses, the government and Non-Governmental Organizations, and the resulting publication “It pays to be transparent” indicates we not only support our clients in identifying their relationship with natural capital but also hold ourselves accountable to the same standard.
Amazon Natural Capital Institute
Amazon Natural Capital Institute
The Amazon Natural Capital Institute views the integration of natural capital into decision making and business accounts as key to mitigating climate change. We implement such actions in Brazil and promote them in Europe via our UK arm, LP Natural Capital. Following recent legislation on a legal framework for payments for ecosystem services in Amazonas State, Brazil, we are in partnership with the Amazonas State Government to support the development of natural capital tools to leverage the legislation. As a result, we are in a firm position to develop and enable the policy environment surrounding natural capital and its data flow, help develop systems specific to the Amazon biome, whilst encouraging the use of the Natural Capital Protocol and supporting the shift in corporate behaviour to enhance rather than deplete natural capital. As deforestation is increasing again in the State, the Natural Capital Coalition’s effort, coordination and membership will provide important support and influence to tackle the issue.
Ecochain Technologies B.V.
Ecochain Technologies B.V.
Ecochain believes that environmental information, just like financial information, must be accessible and interpretable for all its stakeholders. This is why Ecochain provides an Environmental Business Intelligence platform that allows businesses to gain complete control over their environmental performance. Using our platform, companies can measure the environmental impact of their operations, supply chain, processes and products. This way Ecochain helps to quantify the natural capital that companies use, resulting in more efficient production and identifying key leverage points for sustainability.
Ecochain contributes to the Natural Capital Coalition by:
– Providing a valuable network. Ecochain helps companies to publish and share their environmental data with external stakeholders, such as value chain partners, auditors, suppliers, clients, etc. This means Ecochain is at the heart of a leading group of progressive companies that are willing to address and tackle natural capital issues.
– Offering an innovative way of thinking about natural capital. Through Life Cycle Assessment thinking, Ecochain allows companies to gain insight in the footprint of their value chains and the impact of product’s life cycles. This way of thinking often offers valuable insights and can complement the natural capital thinking.
– Offering expertise on quantifying environmental impact. This allows more efficient resource use and emphasizes the importance of natural capital related issues.
Ecosystem Restoration Foundation
Ecosystem Restoration Foundation
The Ecosystem Restoration Foundation aims to restore degraded land around the world by combining the deep science of soil and land restoration with the combined strength of thousands of interested citizens around the world who want to spend their time in contributing to ecosystem restoration. We do this by building Ecosystem Restoration Camps in degraded areas around the world. At these camps local communities, farmers, organisations, businesses, science and campers from around the world van focus their energy and ideas on restoring degraded land. The core purpose of a camp is to get to work and change a degraded, unproductive and uninhabitable landscape into one where natural function is restored, livelihoods return and life flourishes.
We aim to have 1 million people visit our camps around the world by 2030. These people will have contributed to ecosystem restoration, learn about ecosystems and their role as natural capital, and leave with a deep understanding of the importance of ecosystems as they are the natural capital of our economies and lives. Anyone can join a camp for a few days, a few weeks, months or years. Businesses are invited to send their teams for a deep experience on the value of natural capital, the lessons we can learn from functioning ecosystems and a teambuilding personal development journey that involves getting your hands dirty to leave a place behind better off than when you arrived.
Finally, we are investigating ways to finance these camps. Ecosystem restoration usually takes 10 to 15 years. We need new business models, but also effective valuation techniques of the investment we do in what ultimately is the natural capital of our food system, the regulator of our climate, and the basic provider of our livelihoods: a functional and healthy nature!
Naturalogic
Naturalogic
Naturalogic has been created in Belgium in 2014 with the aim of being the first Belgian environmental consultancy firm dedicated to helping companies, investors, governments, academics and opinion leaders to understand the economic consequences of natural capital impact and dependency. We strongly believe that we can move away from an economic system that survives from depleting nature, to an economic system that thrives while enhancing natural capital.
Together with our partners Trucost and CO2logic, we aim to identify natural capital dependency across organisations, products, supply chains and investments and to manage risks from increasing environmental costs to ultimately build more sustainable business models and brands. Our very first goal is to boost the awareness around natural capital accounting and support organisations in integrating natural capital considerations as part of their day-to-day operations. We want to be part of the Belgian platform to disseminate good practices with regard to natural capital.
With our sister company CO2logic, we already work with over 100 medium to large Belgian organisations on climate change challenges, and now with Naturalogic, we aim to work within our network to enlarge the scope of natural capital. We are happy to open up our network to the Coalition, share ideas, participate in reviews and consultations and disseminate key messages.
In short, we’re happy to contribute in every way necessary that can help put natural capital on organisations’ agendas, and to speed up the pace at which they are truly mainstreaming sustainability into business decision making.
Ecoacsa Reserva de Biodiversidad
Ecoacsa Reserva de Biodiversidad
Ecoacsa is a pioneering company in Spain offering comprehensive business solutions for private and public sectors to measure and value natural capital.
With this aim, Ecoacsa implements tools to evaluate and integrate natural capital and biodiversity into business production models. This approach allows to develope actions to minimize risks and business dependencies and provide new business opportunities.
Ecoacsa provides comprehensive solutions through the promotion of turnkey projects, consultancy work and creating additional stimuli to encourage new investment paths in rural areas to favour the development of a social fabric and contribute to the conservation of nature in a sustainable and cost-effective way.
Ecoacsa offers all the services associated with knowledge, development and implementation of market mechanisms for nature conservation (development of market tools such us payment for ecosystem services projects, conservation banking, environmental certification, land stewardship initiatives.
It is essential to know how to integrate ecosystems and their services to the business cycle in our society, in order to achieve sustainable development. Thus, Ecoacsa has a training plan that includes all needed material to natural environment assessment as well as to learn the economic flows in which it is integrated and the tools to reach it.
Ecoacsa has a news platform called Mercados de Medio Ambiente launched to promote and disseminate the development of market mechanisms for nature conservation. Mercados de Medio Ambiente publishes daily valuable information on the importance of ecosystem services and biodiversity conservation as a source of wealth, sustainability projects, rural development initiatives, etc.
Natural Capital Partners
Natural Capital Partners
Working with businesses around the world to identify and assess natural capital benefits from carbon-finance projects.
Natural Capital Partners works more than 300 clients including Microsoft, Marks and Spencer, Bettys and Taylors, BNY Mellon and Sky to deliver project portfolios which enable them to make a positive, sustainable impact on biodiversity, water, agriculture and communities in addition to reducing carbon emissions. Through our comprehensive network of project partners, analysis of project impacts and quality assurance expertise, our clients make positive contributions to natural and human capital and build low carbon sustainable development. Over the last 19 years we have worked with more than 350 projects in 44 countries, ranging from protecting forests from palm oil conversion in Indonesia, to community reforestation for small hold farmers in Kenya, to delivering access to clean water in Guatemala and sub-Saharan Africa. Using a carbon-finance approach, clients are assured of robust monitoring, reporting and verification to ensure results and positive impact from their programmes. Natural Capital Partners participated in the piloting of the Natural Capital Protocol by applying it to a clean cook-stove carbon finance project in Kenya.
Eneco Groep
Eneco Groep
Eneco Group is a group of companies operating in the field of sustainable energy and innovation. Together with our customers, partners and our 3,500 employees we strive to achieve our mission: ‘Everyone’s sustainable energy’. Eneco Group invests in wind and solar farms, biomass plants and green district heating with the aim to increase the share of sustainable energy. Furthermore, we develop innovative products and services that enable our customers to be in charge of how they generate, store, use or share energy.
Eneco Group is already actively integrating natural capital within several projects. We namely aim to operate within the boundaries of the planet, as is determined in our One Planet Plan. Concerning natural capital, biodiversity has an important share in our One Planet Plan, because we acknowledge that ecosystems are currently being depleted and more nature is lost than is added. Therefore our ambition is to realize ‘No Net Loss’ of biodiversity or to even create a positive impact.
Our current projects regarding natural capital comprise the evaluation of impact on biodiversity and how to mitigate and compensate the impacts. Herewith we apply the Natural Capital Protocol as guidance for defining scope and measuring impacts.
We hope to contribute to the coalition by sharing our experiences, insights and skills we developed along the way. We believe the integration of natural capital in the energy sector is at its beginning and we are proud to take a leader position here, since we see the necessity to induce a transition towards the integration of natural capital.
Natural Resource Forum
Natural Resource Forum
Natural Resource Forum (NAREF) is a registered non-profit entity whose purpose is to create a vibrant natural resources sector in Kenya, which influences government policies, impacts investors in the natural resource sector, offers technical assistance to its members, provides green industrial skills capacity and enhances green procurement for its members. NAREF seeks to redefine value to natural capital, social capital and human capital, in order to transform decision making using tools, methodologies and approaches available at Capitals Coalition for natural capital measurements and valuation.
Through its membership and working groups, NAREF will provide technical and trainings regarding the natural capital as well as drive impact through projects and outputs through partnerships with Capitals Coalition’s global community to inform organizational decision making that add value to the capitals in Kenya. We seek to gain insights from the latest thinking and contribute to the value of capitals approach. NAREF stands to gain by establishing strong networks and partnership with Capitals Coalition membership and influence the coalition’s strategies and priority work areas through high impact projects as well as provide leadership in enhancing natural capital, social capital and human capital in Kenya and internationally.
Irish Forum on Natural Capital
Irish Forum on Natural Capital
The Irish Forum on Natural Capital is raising awareness of the natural capital approach in Ireland. If your company would like an introduction to natural capital concepts and their application in the private sector through the Natural Capital Protocol, please get in touch.
Ecomatters BV
Ecomatters BV
Ecomatters is a consultancy specialised in sustainability and chemical safety. We offer services based on life cycle thinking (LCT) and focus on sustainability throughout the value chain. We support organisations in developing their sustainability strategy and setting concrete sustainability goals. Furthermore, we perform quantitative analyses evaluating the social, economic and/or environmental aspects of services and products and assist in the preparation of product claims, (eco) labels and environmental product sheets.
As a specialist in the field on life cycle management, Ecomatters aims to bridge the gap between ‘life cycle thinking’ and ‘natural capital thinking’. To this end, we have sought to find a monetisation method applicable to the full spectrum of life cycle impacts of a company, product or activity as determined by means of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA). We believe to have found a suitable method in the EPS system.
We have supported AkzoNobel in the implementation natural capital assessment by means of EPS monetisation within the 4-Dimensional Profit & Loss (4D P&L) accounting project. Focused on the book value chain, the 4D P&L project has assessed natural capital in parallel with financial, social and human capital. The results of this projects demonstrated to support the identification of improvement opportunities and facilitate effective communication and decision making processes.
We have further written the implementation guide on “Natural capital assessment – environmental damage costing”, which we have shared with business community free of charge. Please visit www.ecomatters.nl to download a copy of this practical guidance.
AECOM Infrastructure and Environment
AECOM Infrastructure and Environment
AECOM provides natural and social capital consultancy services based on an in-depth understanding of the benefits derived from the natural and social environment.
Our natural capital and ecosystem services team has worked with business and communities, national and local government, with the aim of identifying, accounting for and ultimately protecting or enhancing the value of their natural capital. We have a range of ecologists, social scientists, economists, planners, engineers and other specialists working together to determine the value of natural capital and embed this in business processes, projects and investments as well as policies and plans with the ultimate goal of putting the value of nature at the heart of decision making.
We support the Natural Capital Coalition by hosting the monthly Operations Group webinar, to share best practice and move forward the important agenda of natural capital in practice. We have expertise and experience in undertaking environmental valuation, natural capital assessment, cost-benefit analysis, ecosystem-based mitigation and adaptation and in developing market-based instruments. AECOM has applied the Natural Capital Protocol for organisations including Yorkshire Water; researched the business motivations for engaging in the natural capital agenda on behalf of the Joint Nature Conservation; prepared the Payment of Ecosystem Services (PES) best practice guide for Defra; undertaken work to measure the social and environmental returns of woodland creation for the Forestry Commission, UK; has developed in-house as well as client-bespoke ecosystem services valuation tools, one of which was recently awarded the National Grid Chairman’s Award and was shortlisted for the Finance for the Future Awards.
Cambridge Conservation Initiative
Cambridge Conservation Initiative
The Natural Capital Protocol is a guide for businesses looking to better understand and manage their relationships with the environment using a natural capital framework. Increasingly accepted as the standard framework for companies looking to understand natural capital, the Protocol recognises the importance of biodiversity as an underlying component of natural capital, but also recognises the challenges in capturing the specific values of biodiversity. These challenges were underlined by the public consultation to the Protocol where concerns were raised that biodiversity and its relationship to natural capital was insufficiently covered, that not enough attention was given to non-financial values and that, ultimately, companies would struggle to manage or even recognise impacts and dependencies on biodiversity as a result. The pilot studies to the Protocol supported this. Although most stated the guidance was sufficient with respect to biodiversity, in practice the focus was on the more tangible relationships with water and carbon and none included impacts or dependencies on biodiversity as part of their assessment.
The Natural Capital Coalition recognises the need to strengthen the way the Protocol deals with biodiversity. It has therefore partnered with the Cambridge Conservation Initiative (CCI), a collaboration between the University of Cambridge and leading biodiversity-focused conservation organisations, to address this challenge. Working with the European Business and Biodiversity Platform and other partners, CCI will build a cohort of experts who can act as change agents to define, develop and ultimately deliver more robust, biodiversity-inclusive natural capital assessments.
The goal of the joint project is to improve the incorporation of biodiversity into natural capital assessments. To achieve this, five objectives have been identified:
1. To determine the extent of corporate activity on biodiversity within natural capital assessments, perceived limitations of current approaches and secure broad support for an initiative to address those limitations by identifying and engaging with key stakeholders.
2. To identify appropriate responses to better integrating biodiversity into corporate natural capital assessments, barriers to those responses and means of overcoming them by using stakeholder needs and concerns identified in objective 1.
3. To ensure better representation of biodiversity within the natural capital assessments by developing a set of guidance documents or approaches in response to the findings of objective 2. A supplement to the Protocol will be one option, but the final decision will depend upon the requirements of the end users.
4. To build the business case for, and ability of, key stakeholder groups to better integrate the value of nature into corporate natural capital assessments by testing the developed product(s) from objective 3.
5. To increase and improve the integration of biodiversity into corporate natural capital assessments by disseminating the product(s) developed and lessons learned in objective 4 to key stakeholders.
EcoMetrix Solutions Group
EcoMetrix Solutions Group
EcoMetrix Solutions Group (ESG) was founded specifically to help clients apply ecosystem services principles to project planning, development and implementation activities. In addition to providing guidance related to study design, impact assessment, alternatives analysis, and results interpretation, ESG helps organizations develop and apply the metrics needed to make better, more informed decisions. ESG staff are available to share our experiences, drawn from performing ecosystem services assessments for Fortune 500 companies, non-governmental organizations, and government agency partners, with organizations seeking to apply the Natural Capital Protocol Framework. We offer advice, training, support, and consulting services to help with scoping analyses, applying ecosystem services assessment tools to measure potential project impacts and dependencies, and interpreting results so that ecosystem services information can be integrated into business decisions.
ESG staff are also available to help organizations apply the “Measure and Value” and “Apply” steps of the Natural Capital Protocol Framework to measure ecosystem services on a given site and integrate results into existing processes.
ESG worked in partnership with The Nature Conservancy and the Dow Chemical Company to develop the ESII Tool, and today it has become an essential support tool in Dow’s new 2025 Goal to Value Nature.
Economic & Environmental Research
Economic & Environmental Research
Backed by strong academic expertise, Economic & Environmental Research is committed to helping businesses identify, value, and manage their impacts and dependencies on Natural Capital.
Dr. Florian Eppink is an environmental economist with over 15 years of research and consultancy experience. Starting off as an interdisciplinary land use modeler, he became involved in The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB). He has since completed ecosystem service assessments, valuation studies, cost-effectiveness and cost-benefit analyses, and policy appraisals throughout the world. Florian is centrally located in the United Arab Emirates.
The services that Economic & Environmental Research can provide include:
- Design advice and peer-review of Natural Capital Assessments (Alignment of frame, scope, measure and apply stages; Comparing options; Valuation)
- Life Cycle Analysis (Assessing impacts and dependencies)
- Valuation (Surveys; Mapping; Hedonic pricing; Benefits transfer; Choice experiments)
- Cost-effectiveness and cost-benefit analysis
Economic & Environmental Research can also provide training on valuation techniques and cost-effectiveness/benefit analysis. These trainings will take participants through the required steps, which can be accompanied with real-world exercises and software implementation. The content and scope of the training can be adjusted to client needs.
Inter-American Development Bank
Inter-American Development Bank
IDB’s Natural Capital Lab is a one-stop shop for the IDB Group to drive innovation in the conservation, landscape, regenerative agriculture, biodiversity, and marine ecosystem finance spaces. It bridges the gap between traditional environmental and financial actors from the public and private sectors to incubate, accelerate, and scale new solutions to pressing problems.
The NCL is a risk-tolerant hub within the IDB Group. Given that the solutions to many natural capital problems are cross-cutting, it pursues an agenda of blended finance projects with all parts of the IDB Group (IDB, IDB Invest, IDB Lab), in addition to its own projects, knowledge, and strategic partnerships.
As a lab for financial innovation, activities include the deployment of funding in the form of grants, loans, equity, risk capital, or guarantees to:
• Test new models in natural capital finance across the public and private sectors
• Accelerate the deployment of new technologies
• Create enabling regulatory frameworks for innovation in natural capital
• Identify entrepreneurs and projects, and support them with risk capital and linkages to innovation ecosystems
• Link projects to existing investors, international funding sources (such as the GEF), and IDB finance for scale
• Test large-scale financing models for conservation
• Experiment with investment based on natural capital valuation/risk
• Work with anchor companies in valuing and leveraging natural capital in their supply chains
The achievement of the SDGs will only happen if the diversity of actors involved in advancing an innovation agenda learn to partner with each other. Government, academia, private sector, entrepreneurs, and civil society cannot solve problems alone. The NCL prioritizes multi-stakeholder partnerships and provides evidence on how inclusive innovation facilitates results.
As a lab for strategic dialogue and partnerships, activities include:
• Detailing the economic case for investment in natural capital sectors
• Partnering with large global initiatives that convene leaders in technology, science, conservation, and business to develop dialogues on natural capital innovation
• Developing a network of ministries of finance and international actors, such as the Convention on Biological Diversity, to discuss how natural capital can be a driver of development, not a cost
CREM
CREM
With the limits of the planet being increasingly stressed and social challenges growing, CREM is committed to a sustainable economy and society, working together with companies, governments, research institutes, NGOs and consumers. Our work encompasses research & advice, training, implementation and communication, from the point of brainstorming to monitoring of results. Working in the Netherlands as well as internationally.
Since the start of CREM in 1989, we have become experts in the fields of (international) Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), Business & Biodiversity, Natural capital, Circular economy and Sustainable production and consumption. Working on the separate areas and linking areas into integrated approaches; e.g. by explaining the role of natural capital in a circular economy or by providing guidance to the integration of biodiversity and ecosystem services into an ISO 14001 management system.
We are and have been working on a wide variety of natural capital projects, including:
- The development of natural capital tools; such as the Natural Capital Quick Scan, assessing impacts, dependencies, risks and opportunities; generic and for specific sectors.
- Running a Natural Capital Helpdesk for business since 2013, working with over 100 companies.
- The calculation of biodiversity footprints for companies and investment portfolios of financial institutions.
- Working on natural capital reporting for business, as part of CSR reporting.
- The development of ‘Guide on Natural capital and Financial Institutions’ in collaboration with VBDO, forming the starting point for the development of the Finance Sector Supplement to the Natural Capital Protocol.
Our broad expertise is relevant in all stages of the Natural Capital Protocol, including Frame, Scope, Measure and Apply.
Institute for the Development of Environmental-Economic Accounting
Institute for the Development of Environmental-Economic Accounting
IDEEA is committed to building the capacity of governments, businesses and the community in environmental-economic accounting. We improve the understanding of how people and society connect to the environment by integrating information about ecosystems and natural capital into their choices and decision making.
In this context, and given our background in official statistics and environmental policy and measurement, we can contribute to the NCC in four main areas.
- Promoting the conversation about natural capital accounting across different sectors and disciplines, in particular finding a common language and terminology.
- Advancing the development of accounting standards, in particular seeking alignment between developments at the government/national level and the corporate level
- Developing ways of utilising public sector information on ecosystems, ecosystem services and biodiversity with the requirements for measurement at the corporate level.
- Integrating standardised methods of reporting on ecosystem extent and condition in corporate accounting to ensure national and international consistency and coherence.
The key benefit IDEEA can provide the coalition concerns bridging the perspectives of businesses and governments with respect to the environment and natural capital.
PwC
PwC
Want natural capital analysis with board level credibility? We can help.
PwC was part of the core team that developed the Natural Capital Protocol. PwC’s environmental valuation methodologies and Kering’s pioneering Environmental Profit & Loss (EP&L) (supported by PwC) were also two of the four proprietary methodologies selected by the Coalition’s Methodological Review Panel to inform the development of the Protocol. Our people have previously been central to other major collaborative efforts on natural capital including The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB), the WBCSD’s Guide to Corporate Ecosystem Valuation and the UK government’s Framework for Corporate Natural Capital Accounting.
Our established natural capital team combines the technical expertise of ecologists, engineers and economists, with the commercial insight of finance, operations and strategy consultants to deliver business critical analysis that our clients can rely on.
As you’d expect, our team know how to work with the leading models (they developed some of them), and where to source the best data. But from the start, we’re focused on your business challenge, and finding the right solution with you. If a straight forward discussion with our experts, and some back of the envelope calculations are all you need, then that’s what we’ll offer.
If you’re unsure where to start, our natural capital analytics workshop provides a great practical primer along with some immediate results from one of our desktop analytical tools. For example, our rapid natural capital diagnostic runs on some simple input data from your annual report and can hotspot natural capital risks and opportunities in your operations or supply chain live during the workshop.
Nadia Z
Nadia Z
NadiaZ is consulting firm and brand based in Switzerland, specializing in environmental and natural resource sustainability and conservation, corporate social responsibility, industrial ecology, disaster risk reduction/climate change, social protection and social entrepreneurship.
The brand received the 2017 Eluxe Award for excellence in the sustainable luxury market amongst other recognitions. The firm was founded in 2012 by Nadia Zuodar, a physics engineer and International Development professional with 2 decades experience on 4 continents as a Program Manager, Strategic Advisor, Evaluator and Director for a number of prestigious institutions ranging from donors, UN, NGOs, businesses and SMEs. She builds capacity states, organizations and businesses to put in place institutional reforms, improve their impact through developing strategic, policy and operational guidance, results framework/KPIs, delivering and steering internal and independent evaluation.
In particular, she collaborated with UNIDO global pilot to develop Eco-Industrial, developed Indonesia policy guidelines on Green Growth and Special Economic Zones and provided advices on Green SEZ in Parks in various countries.
In relation to the Protocol, NadiaZ offers technical advice, guidance and tailor-made trainings in relation to natural and social capital encompassing:
- Natural and social capital assessments; risk assessment, ecosystem services assessments, impact and dependence, project/site assessments.
- Strategy and decision-making tools development, KPIs design, monitoring and evaluation.
- Natural resource governance, public-private partnerships, payment for ecosystem services and risk transfer approaches.
- Social Corporate Responsibility programs development.
- Industrial ecology (material and energy flow analysis, symbiosis, value chains and circular economy).
- Social capital assessment and impact including linkages with social protection, food security, cultural heritage, livelihoods and health. Applications encompasses.
- Sustainable value chains development particularly in the valorization of indigenous species and mix approaches linking conservation areas, eco-tourism, value chains and biodiversity preservation and valuation.
- Niche and Luxury production including in the fields of Haute Parfumerie, natural cosmetics, artcrafts and food using both cultivated and wild harvested resource.
- Eco-industrial Parks and Green Special Economic Zones.
- Innovative social enterprise models development and support to eco/natural products formulation, design and transformation.
- Blue and green Economy solutions.
The firm provides her services independently or in collaboration with its global network of partners for specific skills or sectors.
Earth Economics
Earth Economics
We will support the Coalition’s mission by contributing to the development of the Natural Capital protocol. We firmly believe that setting standards in this field is necessary to make the full valuing of nature the norm. With over 15 years of experience in natural capital valuation and experience with clients from business to government, we bring valuable expertise that can help shape this protocol.
We will also seek to share our experience in applying natural capital valuations in the business sector. Last year, we worked with a mining company on incorporating natural capital analysis in their proposed copper mining site. We’ve also conducted several recreation industry analyses for various regions and states.
Finally, we value the opportunity to collaborate with other coalition members to help improve natural capital valuation and promote best practices. We have a proven track record of collaborative work with a range of organizations, and we are always seeking further opportunities for collaboration. We can also help in fundraising for joint project work with other coalition members.
Ecociate
Ecociate
Ecociate is a research and consulting organization with a focus on agroecology and regenerative agriculture. We are working with a range of stakeholders which includes bilateral agencies, private businesses, and community-based organizations. We support these organizations in designing, strategic implementation and monitoring of the projects having social, economic, and environmental benefits. We found the framework and approach of Capital Coalition in alignment with our work in India and other south Asian countries. As India have huge potential to promote the sustainable agriculture practices, we believe the Coalition’s collaborative network may play a pivotal role in it by building the capacity of stakeholders, providing the marketing support and designing the appropriate projects and programs. Ecociate have good network of agri businesses and farmer producer organizations and have a competent team of around 20 professionals. We may support the business and other stakeholders in designing the sustainable agriculture projects and conducting the assessment using the ‘capitals assessment framework’ to measure and value the impact of their interventions. Ecociate can also collaborate to organize the training programs, workshops, and events in India for capacity building and promotion of frameworks developed by Capitals Coalition.
DeTao Institute of Green Investment
DeTao Institute of Green Investment
The DeTao Institute of Green Investment (IGI) is a civil-society think tank, established by DeTao and dozens of top environmental-economic experts in February, 2014.
Its goal is to bring together global experts for collaborative innovation that explores economic theory, methodologies, and tools for supporting sustainable environmental management and ecological civilization, especially in China.
IGI has 40 international experts, including Robert Costanza, Hunter Lovins, Robert Eccles, J. Alexander Schmidt, Dajian Zhu (Distinguished Professor and PhD Advisor, the Director of the Department of Public Management of Tongjing University), and Xiaofeng He (Professor and Doctoral Adviser of the Finance Department of School of Economics in Peking University, Economist, Investment Banking Expert).
IGI’s mission is to apply market mechanisms into sustainable environmental management, letting markets play a helpful role in resource allocation, building an economic model and new economic system which is financially viable yet ecologically sustainable, and developing a synergistic growth model for natural capital and economic development.
We will keep our information current with you and share thoughts regarding our natural capital practices in China. As we have been doing city-scale natural capital balance sheets, we would be delighted to feature updates on our forthcoming Urban Natural Capital Management Tool on the Natural Capital Hub or Coalition newsletter to share our experience where relevant.
GEIA- Global Ecological Investment Agency
GEIA- Global Ecological Investment Agency
GEIA is an Irish based start-up that finds new ways to invest in regenerative practices around the world including agroforestry, conservation, and re-wilding projects that support biosphere reclamation and food sovereignty utilizing local workforces to create abundance. Our hopes and aims are to fundamentally rewire the economic system from destruction to regeneration using the collective knowledge and will of stakeholders across this growing movement. One of our current projects is an app-based large scale full circle micro-investment platform that utilizes blockchain technologies that allow people anywhere on the globe to invest in people anywhere on the globe through the medium of regenerative projects.
GEIA is an agency focused on the power of the collective, creating economic value from the many elements of biosphere regeneration. We feel that this work aligns perfectly with the work of the Capitals Coalition, as our model is based on finding the true value of natural and human capital.
Moving forward, GEIA would be happy to share our collective knowledge and contacts to achieve our mutual ambition of a sustainable and equitable future for all stakeholders.
YES BANK Ltd
YES BANK Ltd
YES BANK, since inception, has firmly placed inclusivity and sustainability as a part of its vision and strategy. Natural Capital is one of its key focus areas that has helped the Bank ensure risk mitigation, and cleaner portfolios. Being the first Indian signatory to Natural Capital Declaration (now the NCFA) helped the Bank build its domain expertise. Today, YES BANK has one of the largest Renewable Energy lending portfolios among private sector banks, is the first Indian bank to be ISO 14001 certified for Environmental Management System and is recognized as a Climate Disclosure Leader globally. YES BANK took a commitment of mobilizing USD 1 billion towards climate action and financing 5 GW of renewable energy till 2020 on the eve of COP 21, in order to support India’s ambitious renewable energy targets of 175 GW renewable energy capacities. The Bank intends to support the Coalition and its activities in India with the objective of mainstreaming natural capital thinking among Government, Corporates, and other stakeholders. The Bank also organizes the Natural Capital Awards which is a pioneering platform that mainstreams India’s natural capital dialogue by showcasing practices in natural capital consumption, accounting mechanisms and conservation within the industry and civil society. The awards were conceptualized to recognize and reward unique, scalable, and sustainable models with innovation in products, services, and processes to safeguard natural capital. Going forward the Bank will not only integrate natural capital-led perspectives into the Bank’s strategy and operations in order to make sustainable decisions, but also collaborate with the Coalition for specific activities that support a transition towards natural capital inclusive economy.
European Business & Biodiversity Platform
European Business & Biodiversity Platform
The EU Business and Biodiversity (B@B) platform is an initiative by the European Commission to facilitate a greater engagement of private businesses to address the impact and dependencies of business on nature by accounting for the ecosystem services a business depends upon to operate and for the cost of direct and indirect impacts on the environment.
The platform shall work with business to further develop approaches such as guidelines, methodologies or tools (e.g. indicators or ecosystem-based approaches) that will promote the integration of biodiversity considerations into Business practice. In particular identifying, quantifying and/or valuing dependencies and impacts to inform business decision-making and reporting. The platform work shall support businesses in making better informed decisions — i.e. in terms of reducing business and ecological risks, higher efficiency using natural resources or ecosystem services.
Building on existing initiatives, the dedicated work stream Natural Capital Accounting of the platform has been considering methodologies establishing good practice principles in natural capital accounting in the private sector, with a particular focus on biodiversity and ecosystems. Key deliverables developed by the EL) Business and Biodiversity Platform so far include a business guide on how to select among 11 of the leading approaches on corporate Natural Capital Accounting (NCA). This is complemented by an overview comparing Natural Capital Accounting approaches.
Taking this work forward will require to develop closer synergies with the wider EL) and international work on natural capital accounting such as the Natural Capital Coalition.
Anthesis Consulting Group
Anthesis Consulting Group
Anthesis Enveco offers consulting, research and training services. In Anthesis Group, we serve as a Centre of Excellence in environmental economics, and we also have core competencies in social sustainability issues, sustainable energy systems and sustainable urban development, where we have a unique integrated (economy-environment-energy) business proposition based on long experience and innovative solutions. We are well-established in the international research community and have since our inception in 2004 been involved in a considerable number of national and international research and consulting projects, often as the main coordinating body.
We have worked with the public and private sector, to demonstrate that those businesses that value natural capital and account for ecosystem services in their strategic and operational decision making, and accounting, are likely to be more competitive in the long run. We arrive at these findings by: (1) applying environmental economics techniques for valuing ecosystem services and natural capital change; (2) contributing to improved decision-making support for businesses and policy-makers by taking such values into account in cost-benefit and cost-effectiveness analyses; (3) complementing such economic analyses with social and environmental aspects in broader sustainability assessments through multi-criteria analysis; and (4) advising on policy instrument design that would give economic and other incentives for actors to change their behavior in a way that supports a sustainably productive natural capital as a crucial part of a sustainable development.
We are delighted support the important work of the Natural Capital Coalition by contributing to the piloting of The Protocol; participation in the regular operations calls and consultation on the Finance Sector Supplement. We are also engaged in the development of the Oceans Supplement, drawing on our recent involvement in the NutriTrade project in the Baltic, and assessment of the economic value of inland waters in Stockholm.
Michael J. Steed Natural Resource Consultants
Michael J. Steed Natural Resource Consultants
I will provide practical contribution from a forest consultants perspective based on experiences in the forest actively managing the resource.
I also hope to develop my knowledge base and business specialising in natural capital assessment and ecosystem services focusing on trees and forests – both from a rural and urban perspective.
I will provide technical support to larger corporate businesses regarding
legal requirements, process guidance e.g. natural capital assessment, forest certification, carbon markets and provide vital data to facilitate the overall natural capital accounting process.
Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management
Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management
CIEEM is the leading professional membership body representing and supporting ecologists and environmental managers in the UK, Ireland and abroad. We are transforming the professionalism of the sector, just as our members are transforming the understanding of, and attitudes towards how we can protect and enhance the natural environment. Through our work, we aim to achieve our vision of a healthy natural environment that supports and benefits current and future generations.
We firmly believe that by working together we can make a difference, boosting the voice for nature and leading to a world rich in biodiversity.
We support the goals of the Capitals Coalition, and, by joining and collaborating with the Coalition we can use our voice to amplify the importance of adopting a Natural Capital approach to our members while using the Protocols framework to reduce our own impact on nature.
SEAcoop STP
SEAcoop STP
PantaiES is a SEAcoop STP spin-off (seacoop.com). It’s a small business consultancy company (25 consultants) specialized in cultural, biodiversity, forestry and agricultural ecosystem services (ES). We help public bodies and private organizations to value natural capital and ES. We plan natural capital assessment showing how, from the baseline situation, it’s possible to reach different scenarios of natural capital enhancement. We can provide a specific consultancy in the governance of natural capital due to the formalized partnership with Economy and Sociology departments of University of Torino. A branch of the company is specialized in natural capital and ES monitoring. We are interested in promoting best practice in natural capital and ES assessment. We would like to promote the introduction of the NC Protocol in business assessment of our clients and integrate it also in other usual environmental assessment (LCA). PantaiES manage a voluntary “ecosystem services bank” useful for who wants to off-set some defined impacts. We are trying to develop a new business approach in a country, Italy, where this kind of approach is unordinary and we think that we can do this more effectively as part of the Natural Capital Coalition.
The Biodiversity Consultancy
The Biodiversity Consultancy
We are a team of biodiversity and ecosystem services experts with practical and policy experience of Natural Capital approaches. Our work with industry, government and NGOs and other stakeholders focuses on achieving an ecologically sustainable basis for development, delivering practical solutions for managing biodiversity risk and realising positive conservation outcomes. We bring our wide experience of real-world projects, in-depth understanding of private sector and government needs and stakeholder perspectives to every challenge.
The Biodiversity Consultancy is at the forefront of biodiversity assessment and accounting. Our staff are globally recognised experts in biodiversity metrics, indicators, and accounting. We have worked with the private sector (e.g. Rio Tinto, Shell), financial institutes (e.g. EBRD, IFC), UN organisations (e.g. UNEP, UNSD), and NGOs (e.g. IUCN, BirdLife International) to develop pragmatic, state-of-the-art approaches to biodiversity assessment and accounting. We are active members of the Natural Capital Coalition and contributed to the development of the Natural Capital Protocol.
Natural Capital approaches have focused mainly on flows of ecosystem services. The ‘stock’ of living natural capital, i.e. biodiversity, has received far less attention. We believe this is because it is hard to construct generalised and scaleable measures for biodiversity. However, it means that, unless addressed, Natural Capital approaches could be significantly incomplete. The Biodiversity Consultancy’s work with Natural Capital has focused on identifying, understanding and filling this gap.
Plantanista
Plantanista
- Develop and/or contribute to natural capital thought leaderships
- Increase the awareness of natural capital approach in the food and agriculture sector via. or website www.foodandagricultureinitiative.org
- Provide our infrastructure for the coalition’s mission.
- Assist organization in the food and agriculture industry with the following:
- Identifying key natural capital risks and dependencies
- Measuring the value of natural capital that is material for organizations
- Assessing the effectiveness of natural capital financing programs for agri- financial institutions
- Identifying policies and regulations related to natural capital that may impact business decisions or operations for a business association
- Identifying potential interventions for reducing natural capital risks and new market opportunities in a changing world of natural resource scarcity for equipment and agribusiness companies.
- By translating scientific knowledge and data on natural capital into information that clients
can use to make more informed business decisions. - By assisting clients adapt frameworks, such as the Planetary Boundaries framework, to
set goals and support decision-making needs
Pangea Capital
Pangea Capital
Pangea Capital´s mission is aligned with the Coalition´s mission. We are a consultancy firm focused on generating shared value between companies, cities and their stakeholders by reducing their impacts and vulnerabilities and identifying opportunities related to a new economy, framed by a scenario of climate change and resource scarcity.
We represent a group of people who believe in the need for rethinking the way contemporary society produces and consumes goods, and who see the path of sustainability as an opportunity to create a shared and enduring well-being.
We are particularly interested on identifying and implementing methodologies for the measurement, valuation and assessment of environmental indicators such as GHG emissions, water resources and environmental services. The goal is to provide the right tools and expertise to help managers internalize a systemic and long-term view in their decision-making processes. We truly believe that the Natural Capital Protocol could be a good framework for that and we would like to work with it.
We also have been working with workshops and training courses. We aim to make learning into something pleasurable, which attracts and creates value to our stakeholders and helps strengthening our relationship. This is another area that Pangea would like in partnership with the coalition. We think that this is a good way to support a shift in corporate behavior to enhance the natural capital theme.
University of Salamanca
University of Salamanca
The University of Salamanca hosts the platform ESValues (esvalues.org), an initiative to estimate the economic value of ecosystem services and natural capital at nonstudied sites applying benefit transfer techniques from sizeable sets of original studies. The aim is to build a large and growing database of parametrized studies of ecosystem services, using a wiki format to allow authors or collaborators to feed it with the results of new research, reviewed to ensure homogeneity in the recorded data. The data are then used to estimate natural capital values worldwide, which will be publicly available in an accessible and user-friendly way (with the appropriate safeguards). The site is still in beta version, but will be 99 % operative in a few months.
The University of Salamanca wants to contribute to the aims of the Natural Capital Coalition by providing support, results and expertise on the economic valuation of natural capital, by organizing events on natural capital targeting academia and firms of Spain and Latin America and by promoting the vision on natural capital we share with the Coalition.
Stantec Consulting Services, Inc.
Stantec Consulting Services, Inc.
Stantec provides a spectrum of ecosystem services assessment, quantification, restoration and valuation technical support. Our natural capital program provides both private and public sector clientele with natural capital support services to facilitate strategic resource planning and management and for other decision-making purposes. Our global environmental science, restoration engineering and natural resource economics expertise is frequently leveraged to address both long-term and time-sensitive natural capital issues for our clientele.
Stantec believes that it can both provide expert input to – and learn from – the Natural Capital Coalition. We also believe that it is helpful to consort and consult with natural capital valuation practitioners to advance the natural capital science and economics state of the art through addressing real-world and conceptual issues.
Natural Resources Wales
Natural Resources Wales
Natural Resources Wales are proud to be supporting progress in Wales towards the sustainable management of ecosystems and their natural resources. We are keen to explore new ways of measuring the state and condition of natural resources in order to do this. This will help us to report on the state of natural resources and secure their sustainable use.
Wild Business
Wild Business
As an organisation, we are comprised of active scientists who aim to translate cutting-edge ecological research into corporate business and biodiversity projects. We have a primary focus on biodiversity, ecosystem services, natural capital, and rewilding.
We carry out natural capital assessment and strategy development projects on the ground, for corporate clients, informed by the latest science. Therefore, we can contribute to the Coalition’s mission (goals i – iv) by sharing: (1) findings based upon our practical experience of implementing broader natural capital principles at local, regional, or corporate levels; (2) challenges encountered in making the business case for natural capital, and how we have overcome them; (3) findings from our own ongoing scientific research into the topic of business & biodiversity, including where businesses can enhance rather than deplete natural capital as part of ongoing operations.
Further, we have experience of collaborating with communications organisations and improving the reporting of corporate biodiversity performance, and feel as though these networks and experience could be brought to bear in helping the Coalition to advocate the concept of natural capital.
Finally, as scientists, we continue to build up and analyse data sets in relation to natural capital and related assessments, which we are happy to share where possible. This could assist the Coalition in meeting it’s goal (v) of improving access to reliable data.
Indufor
Indufor
Indufor, established in 1980, is an independent international consulting firm with offices in Helsinki, Melbourne, Auckland and Washington D.C. During our 35-year history, we have consistently provided advisory services on environmental, economic and social sustainability issues. We serve both public and private sector clients in all global regions.
Our extensive experience in natural capital accounting and valuation including piloting the Natural Capital Protocol, means we are well-placed to identify and assess natural capital impacts and dependencies experienced by companies in a range of contexts; especially in forested landscapes. In applying the Natural Capital Protocol framework, we adapt, leverage, and integrate companies’ existing business processes to identify barriers and opportunities. These play a critical role in the identification, measurement, and valuation of natural capital impacts and dependencies throughout corporate value chains. In applying the Protocol, we adapt our approach and method for each client. Our Protocol application is formulated to reflect the intended use of the assessment in the company’s business processes and decision-making.
We draw on our experience in capacity building around natural capital and ecosystem and abiotic services to inform about the best use of the results and prepare each client for adopting natural capital assessments aligned with the Protocol. Considerations include operational, reputational, financial, legal and regulatory dimensions, which we further combine with Indufor’s company-wide sustainable development approach.
ALUS Canada
ALUS Canada
ALUS Canada is an organization built on valuing natural capital, having proven time and time again that farmers will produce more natural capital if it is more highly valued. ALUS’ growth is exponential, with 21 community partners, an increasing list of collaborators, and more than 1,000 farmers working to restore or enhance approx. 23,000 acres of natural capital to date.
With an effective national mechanism supporting a community-led and farmer-delivered approach, ALUS is a proven, next-generation conservation program poised to have an increasing impact on the Canadian landscape. The ALUS program shifts people’s behaviours by engaging communities and empowering the grassroots. This concept encourages donors to support growth on the ground, as there are not only environmental benefits, but also economic and social value that can flow back to beneficiaries engaged in producing natural capital.
ALUS has now launched New AcreTM Project, a vehicle that allows the business community to directly invest in ALUS projects and create new acres of natural capital. New Acre Project places a significant value on the full suite of benefits created by project sites. It is at once an integral part of sustainable business thinking, an effective CSR program and a direct impact-offsetting opportunity for Canadian corporations.
The net result is to increase the value placed on natural capital by all parties—both those who can produce natural capital and those who consume it. Together, we can sustain agriculture, wildlife and natural spaces for all Canadians–one acre at a time.
Office for National Statistics
Office for National Statistics
GDP tells us only part of our economic story. The ONS in partnership with the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), have been developing natural capital and ecosystem accounts for the UK. These accounts aim to measure gains and losses in nature that would otherwise go unrecorded, both in physical and monetary terms. Our accounts link to National Accounts to enable economic and environmental information to work together.
GDP tells us only part of our economic story. The ONS in partnership with the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), have been developing natural capital and ecosystem accounts for the UK in line with UN guidance. These accounts aim to measure gains and losses in nature that would otherwise go unrecorded, both in physical and monetary terms. Our accounts will link to National Accounts to enable economic and environmental information to work together. Accounting at the national level for natural capital signals the Government’s commitment to the importance of valuing nature and sets an example for corporations looking to assess their own dependencies on nature’s assets. The ONS will contribute to the Coalition’s mission by sharing natural capital accounting knowledge and expertise gained through developmental work on monitoring and valuing the services nature provides.
EY
EY
EY can assist you in assessing the risks and the opportunities associated with your natural capital impacts and dependencies and support you in shaping business decisions and strategies that can succeed in a resource-constrained world.
Our services include:
- Identification, measurement and valuation of material natural capital impacts and dependencies in your organisation’s supply / value chain.
- Development of integrated profit & loss solutions to measure and value the environmental, social and economic impacts of your business’ activities.
- Identification of decision-grade KPIs for your senior leadership team, enabling effective management of natural capital across your operations and value chain.
- Articulation of your organisation’s relationship with natural capital through public reporting.
As a team, we bring key insights and technical capability to help organisations better understand their natural capital impacts and dependencies. EY provided strategic support to the Coalition’s business engagement strategy, including interviewing more than eighty international businesses to gauge their aspirations for the Protocol. We led the first pilot of the Natural Capital Protocol in a developing country (Colombia), supporting an assessment and analysis in a major consumer products company of the barriers and incentives that enable corporate natural capital measurement and valuation.
Creando Redes
Creando Redes
Creando Redes is a strategic consulting firm in natural capital valuation and restoration. Our aim is to transform organizations in order to better integrate their activities with nature, reducing their impacts on natural capital and optimizing mitigation and compensation actions.
We address natural capital management from an integrated perspective that includes professional training, strategic planning, and project design. Our work is aligned with the principles defined by the Society for Ecological Restoration (SER).
We have developed our own methodology for natural capital net debt calculation. This methodology is based on CICES and has been tested in infrastructure construction and energy supply projects. Our methodology of this methodology is also valid to estimate the contribution of corporate biodiversity strategies on natural capital.
We want to participate in the Natural Capital Coalition providing our know-how in natural capital valuation and restoration and collaborating in the development of new methodologies and tools that improve companies’ environmental performance and reporting.
SLR Consulting Limited
SLR Consulting Limited
SLR Consulting Limited is a global environmental consultancy and works with clients on a wide range of challenges including managing and improving their environmental performance and demonstrating that they not only work within accepted standards but where they also exceed these.
We have a full range of technical expertise across all environmental technical disciplines and therefore SLR is able to contribute through both individual technical expertise and experience, but also through our wide range of project examples and case studies where we can bring together the aspirations of clients and the Natural Capital Coalition.
Our technical support includes:
- Natural capital strategies
- Natural capital baseline assessments
- Natural capital/ biodiversity training
- Natural capital accounting
- Biodiversity planning
- Ecosystem services assessments
- Habitat planning and monitoring
- Stakeholder engagement
- Environmental impact assessments
- Environmental performance metrics and monitoring
SLR is experienced in working across multiple sectors, and with multiple stakeholders. Our teams are able to collaborate with clients and stakeholders to apply the cross-sector knowledge to drive innovative thinking and enable our clients to embrace change and growth.
SRL recognizes the importance of maintaining and enhancing our stocks of natural capital for future generations and understands that its advisory services in environmental consultancy have a critical role to play in ensuring that this can be achieved. We support the work of the Coalition, and especially its knowledge sharing approach, which we believe will lead to better understanding of natural capital assessment approaches, and therefore better bringing us closer to the goal of truly sustainable development.
Ecoral
Ecoral
Sharing what we have learn to motivate more entrepreneurs and corporations to integrate other forms of capital into their decisions, and engage in the development of the Natural Capital Coalition platform in Colombia.
WSP
WSP
WSP is one of the world’s leading professional services firms providing technical consultancy to the built and natural environment. This involves designing, engineering and managing Property and Buildings, Transport and Infrastructure, Industry, Environment, Mining, Oil and Gas, and Power and Energy projects.
Our UK Environmental business covers a range of services including specialists in biodiversity net gain and natural capital. Through our engagement with the Natural Capital Coalition WSP will help build the business case for integrating natural capital into decision making. We will focus on the case for biodiversity net gain and exploring how we can support clients to embed biodiversity and natural capital into decision-making. We will work collaboratively to harmonize approaches to biodiversity net gain and natural capital across the sector, developing and sharing best practice guidance and piloting approaches.
Many of the projects we work on have long design lives – for example up to 120 years for railways and roads. “Future Ready”, the flagship of our sustainability program, aims to give our experts a consistent understanding of what we believe a future world will look like – including climate, society, resources and technology – and challenges them to offer designs ready both for this future and current design needs. Through our work we will support WSP and our clients to shift corporate behaviour in order to enhance rather than deplete natural capital resulting in sustainable “Future Ready” solutions.
WSP will publish any outputs of our work on Natural Capital and related reports making the data accessible where ever possible.
Wangara Capital Partner
Wangara Capital Partner
Wangara Capital Partners is an impact investment firm dedicated to green small and growing businesses (green SGBs) in Africa. In 2019, we launched Wangara Green Ventures, a Ghana-focused fund which invests in green SGBs with solutions in renewable energy, energy efficiency, waste and water management, and climate-smart agriculture. Based on key insights from this fund, and the adverse effects of climate change on food security and gender disparity, we are launching our second fund, Wangara Growth Fund, which will expand our coverage to other West African countries. Through this fund, we aim to address the challenges of the impact of climate change on food security and gender inequality while creating jobs for the youth and improving livelihoods. The work of the Capitals Coalition aligns with our purpose and we aim to highlight the importance of taking an integrated natural capital approach, particularly in developing regions like West Africa.
Ecocitizen
Ecocitizen
At EcoCitizen, we believe in a world of people, companies, and governments creating positive net effects on the environment around us. We are optimistic, but alarmed. We want to leverage our expertise and help the world: Cut global GHG emissions quickly and sharply; scale up resilient practices and infrastructure; and achieve climate-resilient development, with wide benefits for nature and society.
CO2eco Limited
CO2eco Limited
CO2eco’s mission is to accelerate private finance investment in climate mitigations, adaptation and nature-based services by creating structured financial products including forward contracts. We are a UK start-up looking to launch our first product in the UK in 2023. We wish to collaborate in the Coalition’s network by contributing thought leadership on carbon accounting and long term finance solutions.
GeoTrends Sustainability Consulting Pty Ltd
GeoTrends Sustainability Consulting Pty Ltd
Over the last 30 years the discourse on environmental problems has evolved from single issue
approaches to environmental management to multi-faceted approaches to
sustainable development. The older approach – a downstream react-and-cure afterthought
– is slowly being replaced by a newer approach – an upstream anticipate-and prevent
proactive approach. It involves integrated assessments of the social, economic
and environmental impacts of ‘development’ in decision making, and recognition that
capital comes in different forms, and that ‘natural capital’ requires its own emphasis.
GeoTrends Sustainability brings this focus to Far North Queensland, and wants to assist
decision makers in regional cities and natural resource management agencies on the
Great Barrier Reef, and Australia more generally, understand how to integrate and
mainstream ‘natural capital’ in social, economic and environmental decision making. To
be effective in decision making roles, managers and leaders need to appreciate that
fiduciary and other responsibilities now include many sustainability risk considerations,
notably carbon emissions and climate risks and how to management them within a
sustainability framework that emphases the protection and maintenance of natural
capital. GeoTrends Sustainability seeks to initiate or contribute to collaborative projects
on natural capital with interested parties concerned about the condition of the Great
Barrier Reef and other natural capital assets.
Fauna & Flora International
Fauna & Flora International
Founded in 1903, Fauna & Flora International (FFI) is a registered charity and the world’s longest established international conservation body. FFI is a biodiversity specialist with extensive experience on incorporating the economic values of nature into business decision making and a strong interest in ensuring natural capital assessments adequately incorporate biodiversity risk and opportunity management.
FFI has worked closely with businesses, and influencers of business, since 1997, partnering with a variety of global corporations to integrate biodiversity into management decisions, especially in the extractives and agricultural sectors and focusing on implementation at the business unit level, producing tools such as the Biodiversity Risk and Opportunity Tool or the High Level and Site Level Biodiversity Risk Assessment tools. In addition, FFI has worked closely with finance sector to integrate natural capital into financial decision making processes, producing the Ecosystems Benchmark Tool, two natural capital accounting reports with ACCA and KPMG, supporting the Natural Capital Declaration and running the Sustainable Fishing Initiative.
FFI is part of the Natural Capital Coalition and is strong supporter of the Natural Capital Protocol, playing an active role in its development. It is also a leading member of the Cambridge Conservation Initiative (CCI) which acts as the Coalition’s primary partner for biodiversity issues. FFI would be keen to work with organisations looking to explore and implement the Protocol, particularly those concerned with significant impacts or dependencies on biodiversity, and would be in a position to offer both technical advice as well as staff training programmes.
U.S. Department of Commerce
U.S. Department of Commerce
The U.S. Department of Commerce will contribute to the Natural Capital Coalition’s mission in three ways:
1. Serve on the Natural Capital Protocol advisory panel, providing expert guidance from the Federal perspective on protocol design and deployment.
2. Host a publicly available natural capital website for businesses and other stakeholders, with contextual information about natural capital and ecosystem services and links to excellent Federal and external resources. This website will link to the Natural Capital Coalition and related resources such as Natural Capital Business Hub.
3. Link the Coalition’s and its members’ activities, products, and services to a new audience. The Department of Commerce includes 12 diverse bureaus, and supports businesses of all types as it works to create the conditions for economic growth and opportunity. The Department’s points of contact to the Coalition will enable new connections across Coalition members and their stakeholders.
Department of Commerce United States of America
Department of Commerce United States of America
The U.S. Department of Commerce will contribute to the Natural Capital Coalition’s mission in three ways:
1. Serve on the Natural Capital Protocol advisory panel, providing expert guidance from the Federal perspective on protocol design and deployment.
2. Host a publicly available natural capital website for businesses and other stakeholders, with contextual information about natural capital and ecosystem services and links to excellent Federal and external resources. This website will link to the Natural Capital Coalition and related resources such as Natural Capital Business Hub.
3. Link the Coalition’s and its members’ activities, products, and services to a new audience. The Department of Commerce includes 12 diverse bureaus, and supports businesses of all types as it works to create the conditions for economic growth and opportunity. The Department’s points of contact to the Coalition will enable new connections across Coalition members and their stakeholders.
Natural Resources Law
Natural Resources Law
We are a small legal and advisory company focusing on natural resources law and governance. We work closely with New Zealand’s Sustainable Business Council around supporting New Zealand businesses using the Natural Capital Protocol.
ANSA Merchant Bank
ANSA Merchant Bank
ANSA Merchant Bank is a Commercial and Investment Bank that, for over 40 years, has provided financing, investment, and wealth management solutions to individuals, businesses and sovereigns, both locally and regionally within the Caribbean. ANSA Merchant Bank believes that creating and sustaining lasting value for our community and our shareholders is dependent on the health of the natural world we live and work in. We have therefore adopted a Natural Capital approach for advancing and enhancing our shareholder value. As we identify and quantify the ways in which our business affects, and is reliant on, natural resources, we will be compiling the first ever private sector-led Natural Capital Report in the Caribbean. In addition, we are partnering with the Cropper Foundation to establish the Caribbean Natural Capital Hub. The Hub will mainstream the application of natural capital practice in the Caribbean private sector through: enhancing the understanding and inclusion of natural capital in business; build the knowledge base for integrating natural capital into decision-making and planning; and creating a community of private sector champions. The Hub will be grounded in multi-stakeholder partnership, bringing together civil society, private sector and public sector to co-create and collectively advance a more nature-positive Caribbean.
E-Square Inc.
E-Square Inc.
We provide the CSR / Shared Value consulting services in Japan to various Japanese companies towards a sustainable society. As we already recognize the importance of natural capital, we think that internalizing the natural capital value into the company’s management becomes more and more critical for the future environment.
We wish to promote the concept and methodologies of the natural capital protocol to our clients in order to have them consider more deeply the relationship between the natural capital and the business, and take it into account in their core business fields.
There are some approaches such as a stakeholder mapping or a life cycle analysis which our clients have already done in the other frameworks. We may be able to advise our clients to integrate the Natural Capital Protocol into their experienced approaches. We wish their decisions will base on the information including the natural capital.
In additions, we may be able to contribute to your activity by asking our clients to join the Natural Capital Coalition.
Earthmind
Earthmind
One of Earthmind’s major initiatives is developing a new natural capital asset class. The Verified Conservation Area (VCA) Approach is recognising voluntary area-based conservation where we live and work. For more information, please visit: Conserve Areas
Specifically with respect to the NCC’s mission, we are keen to include best practice guidance on natural capital valuation in the VCA Toolkit; to integrate natural capital valuation into managing and investing in VCAs; to test the use a Natural Capital Protocol in registering, managing and investing in VCAs; to scale up recognition and support for VCAs to enhance natural capital globally; and to assist the policy environment (e.g. SDGs, CBD and Ramsar) to focus on conserving natural capital, hectare by hectare.
We also work on the application of biodiversity standards, notably IFC’s PS6, and are keen to explore the nexus between standards and valuation for conserving and enhancing natural capital.
Agro -Ecological Investment Management
Agro -Ecological Investment Management
AE seeks to demonstrate that by enhancing and developing environmental positives as a matter of course, it is possible to create greatly improved investment outcomes.
Star Systems LLC and Earth Foundation, Inc
Star Systems LLC and Earth Foundation, Inc
Natural and human capital are important factors to consider for economic development. Star Systems is a firm for social, environmental, and fair economic advancement. I am currently working on a sustainability model that incorporates natural, social, and human dimensions. I have spent a considerable amount of time in the last 2-4 years researching innovative and exploratory financial applications for sustainability, including circular economy and industrial ecology. I am working on a grant from the National Science Foundation for an index for natural and human capital dimensions. I hope to explore and contribute to the Coalition for the advancement in the field of sustainability, and expanding national accounting systems to incorporate social, human, and natural capital dimensions.
Pentland Centre for Sustainability in Business
Pentland Centre for Sustainability in Business
he Pentland Centre for Sustainability is committed to bringing together the best minds in business and science to co-create scalable sustainable solutions. The Pentland Centre draws expertise from Lancaster University Management School and Lancaster Environment Centre, acting as a hub that brings together the latest global views from across academic disciplines and engaging directly with leading companies and organisations, including the Pentland Group and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD).
The Centre’s transdisciplinary research on sustainability, ecosystem risks to business, and the role of companies in leading change aligns with the mission of the coalition. Through our research in quantifying natural capital and ecosystem service flows, and the resilience of these to global change, we can contribute expertise to developing, testing and harmonizing approaches to natural capital, and scientific knowledge and methods to support building the business case for integrating natural capital into decision making.
Our hands-on approach to creating knowledge and solutions in partnership with business, policy makers and civil society allows us to share and promote best practice and support the coalition’s mission to shift corporate behaviours towards enhancing, rather than depleting natural capital.
We offer access to specific expertise on: ecosystem modelling, decision making at the food-water-energy nexus, biodiversity conservation, sustainable land use and soils, waste, corporate sustainability strategies, the economics of climate change, environmental reporting, environmental and climate policy, and resilient supply chains.
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