Coalition Organizations
The Natural Capital Coalition is an international collaboration that unites leading initiatives and organizations under a common vision of a world that conserves and enhances natural capital.
The Coalition is made up of almost 300 organizations (and engages many thousands more) which together represent all parts of society. These organizations fall into seven broad stakeholder groups or ‘worlds’: business, finance, conservation and civil society, government and policy, science and academia, standard setters & disclosure and membership organizations.
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.
Find out more about joining the Coalition here.
WSP
Business
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.
WWF
WWF Netherlands
Conservation bodies & NGOs
We believe a strong synergy is possible between NCC (and NCP) and One Planet Thinking. Both being initatives aiming to develop and harmonize approaches to conserve natural capital.
One Planet Thinking actively encourages society to collaborate on a fundamentally new approach for living and working sustainably within the interconnected systems of our planet. The One Planet Thinking approach creates a normative framework for using, sharing and governing natural resources without threatening the viability of critical Earth systems.
One Planet Thinking is powered by WWF and IUCN the Netherlands and others.
By sharing and improving tools (starting with NCP and using One Planet Thinking as a dot on the horizon), we good make great steps together. One Planet Thinking enables us to include target setting to the approaches as well.
It would be great if we good engage on each other’s pilots and scale up via each other’s network to create one big Natural Capital/One Planet Thinking movement.
Yarra Valley Water
Contributor
Business
Yarra Valley Water has had a long history in being interested in finding the most sustainable solution. It began in the early 2000’s, when we included triple bottom line parameters into our decision making using multi-criteria methodologies. Then expanded to adopting life cycle assessment of project options. We have since also produced a company integrated profit and loss statement; become a signatory to the UN Global Compact; made a commitment to the Sustainable Development Goals; and commenced sustainability reporting. Our present interests are in advancing how we incorporate the natural, social and human capitals and SROI and HROI into our business model and decision making. We intent to contribute by sharing everything we do in an open and collaborative manner and hope to learn from other on how to be a responsible and sustainable.
YES BANK Ltd
Finance
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.
Yorkshire Water
Business
Zoological Society of London
Conservation bodies & NGOs
The Zoological Society of London (ZSL) is an international scientific, conservation and educational charity whose mission is to promote and achieve the worldwide conservation of animals and their habitats. Our mission is realized through science and conservation projects in more than 50 countries, and our two Zoos, ZSL London Zoo and ZSL Whipsnade Zoo.
ZSL’s Business and Biodiversity Programme works with business to have a positive impact on the natural world, initially by working with the palm oil industry in 2001. ZSL is an active member of the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) and the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), and works closely with other organizations such as the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC). ZSL also works globally to reduce the impacts of plastic pollution with projects such as #OneLess and NetWorks – which collects and converts discarded ocean plastics into high quality carpet tiles.
Our flagship business engagement initiative SPOTT – Sustainability Policy Transparency Toolkit – is an online platform supporting sustainable commodity production and trade. By tracking transparency, SPOTT incentivizes the implementation of corporate best practice. SPOTT assesses commodity producers and traders on the public disclosure of their policies, operations and commitments related to environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues. SPOTT scores companies annually against sector-specific indicators, allowing them to benchmark their progress over time.
Investors, buyers and other key influencers can use SPOTT assessments to inform stakeholder engagement, manage risk, and increase industry transparency. A number of SPOTT indicators related to the assessment and management natural capital, and therefore incentivize better recognition, measurement and protected of natural capital in 70 of the largest palm oil producers and traders globally as well as 50 of the largest producers of timber. Through our engagement and impacts workstream we work with investors and companies globally to encourage increasingly better management of natural capital, avoiding sensitive areas, minimizing impacts and restoring habitats.