Target 15.9: Integrate ecosystem values into planning
By 2020, integrate ecosystem and biodiversity values into national and local planning, development processes, poverty reduction strategies and accounts
Owners voting their values help. Others must carry most of it.
Why shareholder democracy is helpful
Integrating ecosystem values into national planning and accounts is a government task. But corporate accounts are part of the target's 'accounts', and listed companies are adopting nature valuation. By July 2024, 416 organizations had committed to report under the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures. The listed companies among them come from over 50 jurisdictions and are worth more than $6 trillion on the stock market, spread across 62 sectors. Nature Action 100's benchmark found only one of 100 companies has fully assessed which nature-related risks and dependencies matter enough to affect its business. Shareholders in food, forestry, chemicals and mining companies can press to close that gap. National accounts and planning stay with governments, so owners help at the margin.
How this was scoredHelpful
Helpful. Owners voting their values help. Others must carry most of it.
We have not yet written down the two answers behind this rating. Recording them on every item, so a reader can check the reasoning and not only the conclusion, is work in progress.
Every rating is the higher of two answers, one for what companies do and one for what they spend to stop the outcome, because the same vote reaches both. See the full method.
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What civil society organizations are helping owners on this
Coordinates more than 240 investors engaging 100 companies in eight priority sectors to assess nature-related risks and dependencies and to disclose them in line with the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures.
Uses investor sign-on letters and shareholder proposals to press consumer-facing companies to adopt forest protection policies, and supports ten Nature Action 100 companies in assessing and reducing biodiversity impact.
2 campaigns on record
Use the Nature Action 100 company benchmark to improve assessment and disclosure of nature-related impacts and dependencies.
Result: not stated in source
Take timely and necessary steps to protect and restore nature, assess nature-related financial risks and disclose them in line with the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures.
Result: More than 240 investor participants with over 30 trillion US dollars in assets under management or advice; at least 75 investor engagement teams met investee companies in 2024
The status report cites early results including biodiversity assessments by consumer goods firms and nature-related financial disclosures aligned with the taskforce recommendations.
How this rating was made
Every item on every one of our maps is read against one question: how far does this depend on the people who own companies voting their values? We answer it twice, once for what companies do and once for what they spend to stop the outcome, and take whichever answer is higher, since the same vote reaches both. The score carries its reasoning and its sources so that a reader can check it rather than take it.
- Pivotal. Owners voting their values can deliver most of the outcome.
- Necessary. Owners remove an obstacle nothing else removes, and others must also act.
- Helpful. Owners voting their values help, and others carry most of it.
- Independent. This moves without owners. Other levers carry it.
The advocacy record on this page holds only what a source we opened says happened. Where we searched and found nothing, the page says so rather than leaving a silence. Where a campaign names a filer the source does not name, it says that too. Ratings are ours; the list of subjects is UN Sustainable Development Goals's, and we link to their original.
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