WBA
The World Benchmarking Alliance is a non-profit organisation that develops transformative benchmarks comparing companies’ performances on the Sustainable Development Goals across seven systems of transformation. These benchmarks leverage international norms and standards and are backed by the best available science.
EVA
Eva is a company self-assessment tool that leverages WBA’s tried and proven methodologies to provide companies with a blueprint for catalytic change in their sustainability performance, across a variety of topics. Eva does this by providing companies with insights into priority areas for improvement and by allowing them to compare their performance with peers from across their industry. Users also can add additional premium features for more personalised insights.
The methodologies
Social
This methodology lays out the 18 core social indicators that the World Benchmarking Alliance uses to assess and rank the 2,000 most influential companies, also known as the SDG2000. The aim of this assessment is to drive corporate accountability on the fundamental aspects of socially responsible business conduct.
As an addition to the core indicators, there is a set of assessments measuring companies on their responsibility to respect human rights, provide and promote decent work and act ethically. These are the initial steps you should follow to meet the corporate responsibility. Our Corporate Human Rights Benchmark and Gender Benchmark examine in greater depth how a subset of these companies in high-risk sectors address the catalytic issues of human rights and gender equality.
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Food and Agriculture
This methodology measures the sustainability performance of the 350 most influential companies in the food and agriculture space across 46 indicators, based on global agendas like the SDGs, as well as expert guidance and the latest science. The methodology aims to compel transformational change ‘from farm to fork’, by pushing these companies, and their partners across the value chain, to adopt sustainable practices leading to improved environmental, nutritional and social impacts. Within Food and Agriculture, our Seafood Stewardship Index homes in on the 30 companies with the strongest impact on the seafood industry, examining how they contribute to the sustainable management of oceans and coastal ecosystems. Meanwhile, the Access to Seeds Index examines 67 seed companies on their efforts towards achieving Sustainable Development Goal 2: Zero Hunger, by looking at their efforts to make their product available to smallholder farms across South and South-east Asia, Eastern and Southern Africa and Western and Central Africa.
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Nature
This methodology contributes to a ‘nature-positive’ future by using 25 nature-specific indicators to track whether 816 companies across more than 20 industries are reducing their negative impacts on nature and contributing to the restoration of stable and resilient ecosystems. The actions it measures will determine whether humanity and nature can co-exist within planetary boundaries, and whether we achieve the goals of the Global Biodiversity Framework.
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