Coalition Directory
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.
Well managed protected areas help to achieve the SDGs, such as ending poverty by creating decent local jobs, especially for youth in rural communities remote from capital, supporting good health, well-being and quality education for local people, and creating peace and stability, as well as making clean water, and mitigating climate change. By focusing on protected areas, achieving the SDGs, as well as meeting international commitments under multiple global conventions, including on climate change, biodiversity, desertification, migratory species, trade in endangered species, international wetlands of importance and world heritage sites, can synergise on-the-ground in a pragmatic and measureable manner. African Parks provides proof of concept and will contribute by showing what is possible, through its public-private partnership. African Parks currently manages 15 protected areas in nine African countries. In the process of restoring the land and protecting its biodiversity, African Parks also generated 4,804 jobs in 2018. Further, in the same year, through its efforts 82,706 people received healthcare, 79,884 children had access to education, and 77,881 tourists visited the parks. The carbon benefits, which are real, have yet to be quantified or fully monetized, which is work that is currently in progress.
AgRS’s experience resides in on-farm natural capital accounting methods and processes and its incorporation into organizational value webs. Much of its work has focused on developing an index-based eco-commerce platform with an emphasis on organizational governance styles.
AgRS can contribute knowledge associated with the use and application of a governance compass to assess governance footprints of natural capital projects of both public and private entities. AgRS has used these techniques to provide clarity to project participants on how governance strategies can be applied to reduce inherent conflicts and align the activities of practitioners and policy-makers.
AgRS has a broad perspective of USA natural Capital efforts with involvement in projects such as the Chesapeake Bay BMP Verification Panel, UN Foundation’s Solution From the Land, US Water Alliance, USDA-EPA Water Quality Certainty Programs, and various local, state, and industry on-farm environmental quality assurance programs.
Tim Gieseke has written Shared Governance for Sustainable Working Landscapes, a Taylor & Francis/CRC Press book published in 2016. It includes several prominent USA case studies addressing their accounting, methods and governance styles.
AEN-Kenya is committed to environmental conservation and community empowerment in Kenya. Their interests lie in integrating natural, social, and human capital to achieve sustainable development. Through activities such as agroforestry, sustainable agriculture, and climate change mitigation, their focus on restoring ecosystems, enhancing biodiversity, and improving the livelihoods of local communities. AEN-Kenya empowers youth and women by providing training, resources, and support to adopt sustainable practices. The projects promote soil health, water conservation, and carbon sequestration, contributing significantly to environmental sustainability.
Through collaborations, AEN-Kenya strives to enhance their impact, scale up successful projects, and contribute to a more sustainable and equitable future. AEN-Kenya is dedicated to fostering partnerships that align with our goals of integrated capital approaches, benefiting both people and the planet.
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.
ADP is an agribusiness based in Uruguay. They produce both agricultural products and livestock. Bidegaray & Associates specializes in providing its clients with solutions for the evaluation and development of innovation projects, the application of cleaner technologies and energy efficiency. Bidegaray has supported ADP in conducting a case study to support more sustainable meat production.
Aires de Campo is a company that was founded in 2001. Nowadays, their principal approach is the commercialization of organic products including chicken, coffee, dairy, eggs, honey, oil, vegetables, seeds, etc. All the products are certified by a certification body. Aires de Campo is working to improve their sustainability regarding the three axes of conscious consumption: economic, environmental and social.
The visions and missions of AWS and the Coalition are clearly very closely aligned. Understanding natural capital stocks and flows is a fundamental part of water stewardship. Being engaged with the coalition can help us support companies to understand their natural capital impacts better in the context of implementing or promoting water stewardship. This will feed valuable information and knowledge back to both of our organizations.
Altus Impact is an environmental advisory and sustainability communications agency. We are environmental economists and strategists, expert number crunchers, content development specialists, and digital masterminds working with the public and private sector to find solutions to pressing development and environment challenges.
By using state-of-the-art tools and approaches (including qualitative, quantitative and monetary valuation of natural capital), we generate rigorous data, provide quality analysis and craft compelling messages that enable organisations make sense of their impacts and dependencies on natural capital across the entire product life-cycle and value chain. Our team has experience with various sectors including tourism, transportation, infrastructure planning, farming and forestry in this regard.
Capitalizing on this background, Altus Impact is well-positioned to assist in the coalition with a different tasks, including: reviewing the NC protocol, developing sector guides and assisting coalition members with implementing parts or the whole of the protocol. Altus Impact will also be active in ‘spreading the message’ amongst our clients and networks and encourage adherence to the coalition and use of the protocol so as to promote the conservation of natural capital within businesses worldwide.
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.
We are specialized in the development and implementation of sustainable business.
We envision a global economy that uses business as a force for good. AMAGI is a B Corporation, that´s why we are purpose-driven and creates benefit for all stakeholders, not just shareholders.
As leaders of this emerging economy, we believe:
• That we must be the change we seek in the world.
• That all business ought to be conducted as if people and place mattered.
• That, through their products, practices, and profits, businesses should aspire to do no harm and benefit all.
• To do so requires that we act with the understanding that we are each dependent upon another and thus responsible for each other and future generations.
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.
AIHA is the association for scientists and professionals committed to preserving and ensuring occupational and environmental health and safety (OEHS) in the workplace and community. Founded in 1939, we support our members with our expertise, networks, comprehensive education programs, and other products and services that help them maintain the highest professional and competency standards. More than half of AIHA’s nearly 8,500 members are Certified Industrial Hygienists, and many hold other professional designations. AIHA serves as a resource for those employed across the public and private sectors, as well as to the communities in which they work.
We are impressed with the mission and goals of the Capitals Coalition, and feel our rich and diverse expertise in OEHS can be leveraged. With our significant standing in the public health community, we would share with others in our communities how Capitals-thinking provides leverage in addressing complex challenges. We would strive to integrate Capitals-thinking: (a) within research we support; (b) into recommendations we provide public policymakers, and (c) in advancing skills development for OEHS professionals.
Anglian Water’s sustainability strategy includes action on natural capital such as reducing capital and operational carbon, driving down leakage, encouraging water efficiency and enhancing biodiversity across our region.
We are fully supportive of the Natural Capital Coalition’s mission. Where we are able we will share our learning on embedding natural capital in decision-making within the coalition and beyond and work in collaboration to achieve shared objectives.
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.
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.
APEAM is a Mexican civil association of avocado growers, packers and exporters.
Applied Genomics deliver bespoke solutions for ecological assessment using the latest advances in environmental genomics technologies. Our approach is particularly valuable for projects undertaken in challenging environments or that have a higher level of operational difficulty, which current ecology techniques cannot easily address: biodiversity assessment; detection of rare or cryptic species; management of threatened or invasive populations. Our solutions may be adapted to suit local to landscape-scale assessments. Our services include biodiversity monitoring, biosecurity, environmental risk assessment, ecotoxicology impact assessments, species-habitat occupancy modelling and environmental rehabilitation. Our approach is cost-effective, non-invasive, rapid, robust and achieves a significant advancement in delivering ecological assessments with molecular accuracy.
We support the Natural Capital Coalition’s mission through sharing of our experience in delivering environmental genomics assessments and by collaborating on the development of protocols for incorporating environmental genomics assessments in an ecosystem valuation framework. We support a shift in corporate behavior to enhance natural capital valuation and the evolution of an enabling policy environment.
To harmonize approaches to natural capital, we have an unmatched global network of community tree and forestry partners with the ability to deliver high quality planting projects in urban settings, natural forests, agroforestry, and forestry carbon market projects. Since 1/3 of global emissions came from deforestation, we view trees and forests as a natural technology that can restore ecosystems, promote healthy communities, and reverse climate change when deployed at scale.
An example of how we promote the enhancement of natural capital is with our focus on reforestation projects in the carbon markets. Today, there are three forestry options available for carbon credits: Reforestation, Improved Forest Management, and Avoided Conversion. Of the three forestry options, Reforestation is the only one that builds equity back into the ecosystem – and therefore, a special forestry asset class. The other two, while important, are about forests that are already established. This equates to a very different cost curve and set of circumstances for Reforestation, but the additional ecosystem benefits far outweigh the costs.
We help our 200 corporate partners (like Disney, PwC, Seventh Generation, FedEx, Verizon, TD Bank, UPS) think creatively and integrate forests and trees into their critical business priorities such as, supply chain resiliency, employee engagement, community impact, verified carbon emissions reductions, and partnership development. We organize intimate roundtable events and conference for our corporate partners and tree/forest partners to connect and learn about how trees and forests are helping advance their sustainable development goals.
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.
Established in 1931, Arvind Limited is the flagship company of the Lalbhai Group, one of the largest textiles manufacturer and exporter in India. It caters to the pressing needs of quality textiles and continues to be ranked amongst the top suppliers of fabric worldwide. The activities of the organization are directed from the headquarter based in Ahmedabad, Gujarat with its production units spread over Gujarat, Maharashtra and
Karnataka in India and one unit in Ethiopia.
Arvind is involved in the process of making fabrics with cotton as the key raw material accounting for 80% of all products. With altered climate variables such as delayed monsoon, increase in drought and erratic rainfall, as well as increase in growing season length, securing an uninterrupted supply of cotton has become a concern for Arvind.
This dependency on cotton has led Arvind to focus on the sustainability of their cotton supply and reduction of the negative environmental impacts caused during cotton production. Management has strengthened the cotton portfolio by directly sourcing sustainable cotton from farmers who are engaged in practicing Better Cotton Initiative principles (BCI), encompassing practices like integrated crop protection, water stewardship activities, nurturing soil health, enhancement of biodiversity and responsible land use, care for preserving fiber quality, promotion of decent work and effective land management. Likewise due to rising brand and customer awareness, Arvind has been continuously engaged to improve traceability across the value chain.
We are the WBCSD Partner in France.
We will disseminate the coalition work toward our members. We will share our work on the act4nature initiative with the coalition or more generally on biodiversity (case studies, publication…)
1 Association for Promotion Sustainable Development is engage with Natural Capital Programme by Yes Bank Limited in last 3 years.
2 Association for Promotion Sustainable Development is working on protect, restore and promote Sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystem, sustainably manage forest, combat desertification halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss.
We intend to contribute through research and pedagogy on integrated capitals
Aurecon is a design, engineering and advisory company that brings ideas to life to create a better future for people and the planet. We believe humanity depends on engineering founded in natural and social capital; and we recognise we have a broader stewardship role to play. A deep responsibility to hold. As we continually strive for a life in balance, Aurecon clients will be ready for the future and engineered for life.
We bring the business environment to the growing environment business, and we do this using adaptive planning, a new way to incorporate decision making around uncertainty and shared benefits. Our environmental and sustainability teams are known for:
> Sustainable Water
> Land, Soil & Biodiversity
> Climate Change & Transition
> Natural Markets
> Circular Economy
We seek to collaborate with future focussed organisations to shape the planet of the future with effective decisions today
We offer our technical and technological expertise of more than 10 years working in the development of methodologies to help our customers in the identification and quantification of their environmental risks and integrating the results in the corporate decision boards. We offer the possibility of, by the application of the Natural Capital Protocol (and/or sector guides), companies make tangible the intangibles. We offer our expertise in developing solutions to help in the application of the Natural Capital Protocol as a global standardized framework for understanding impacts and dependencies on natural capital and integrating this into decision making.
Azos are passionate about bridging the worlds of technology and regenerative finance to power a more sustainable, equitable future. Their mission is to accelerate climate-positive action by building open, transparent financial tools that direct capital towards environmental regeneration and resilient local economies.
The team draws on diverse expertise from environmental science, decentralized technology, and impact investing. We are deeply committed to harnessing data-centric innovation—such as decentralized monitoring, reporting, and verification (dMRV)—to make climate finance more efficient, accountable, and accessible for all.
Azos seek to empower cross-sectoral partnerships and foster open-source tools tor real-world sustainability outcomes. By collaborating openly and transparently, we hope to advance the Coalition’s shared vision and amplify the real-world impact of climate-forward digital finance initiatives.
Together, we can transform regenerative finance from ideas to impactful, measurable outcomes for people and the planet.