Global Community
The Capitals Coalition is a global community of organizations working together to make invisible value visible in the economic system.
Our community spans the full range of society. Business, finance, government, civil society, science, and accounting and standards – all are represented, and all play an active role. Over 500 organizations are formally part of the Coalition, and we engage many thousands more through our work, events, and networks.
Our Organizations
Capitals Hubs
Capitals Hubs are communities of practitioners that develop and scale impact valuation within specific regional, national, or sectoral contexts. They connect leaders and leading initiatives, ensuring the right people are collaborating across the system. Hubs provide a space for geographic or sector-specific challenges, opportunities, and solutions to be explored between stakeholders.
Lead Organization: Value Australia
Value Australia exists to make nature, people and society visible, measurable, valued and actionable in the decisions that shape our economy and future, alongside financial capital.
As a Capitals Coalition hub, they connect and build capability across business, finance, government and community to help organizations value what matters.
For more information please contact Rayne van den Berg.
For more information please contact Pedro Martins.
Lead Organization: Capitals Hub Canada
Capitals Hub Canada is the Canadian Hub of the international Capitals Coalition network. The hub’s aim is to improve decision making by mainstreaming the inclusion of capitals thinking in Canada and the use of non-financial capitals across sectors, harmonizing the many different approaches to do this work and bringing them to scale quickly in Canada by facilitating collaboration that enables more informed decisions that conserve and enhance natural, social, and human capital.
The hub’s ultimate objective is to have the Canadian economy become fully sustainable (as defined here) with all of its inhabitants enjoying economic security and well-being (as defined here).
Planned events: Creating a formal web presence for the Hub in Canada to provide a landing spot for new members or interested stakeholders and developing a series of papers to make the protocols more tangible and applicable for Canadian audiences, with emphasis on key sectors (e.g., finance, government, academia, SMEs, corporate, Indigenous communities.).
For more information please contact David Steurman.
Lead Organization: ANSA Merchant Bank Ltd & The Cropper Foundation
The Caribbean Natural Capital Hub aims to mainstream the application of natural capital principles and practice in the Caribbean private sector through enhancing the understanding, capacity and inclusion of natural capital approaches in business; building the knowledge base for integrating natural capital approaches into business decision-making and planning, and creating a community of progressive private sector champions.
The Hub will also be grounded in multi-stakeholder partnership, bringing together civil society, the private sector and the public sector to co-create and collectively advance a more nature-positive Caribbean.
For more information please contact Brandon Murphy.
Lead Organization: Goldenbee Consulting
The objective of Capitals China Hub is to bring in advanced capital assessment tools and introduce their methodology to Chinese enterprises. They are proud to be a facilitator for enterprises to integrate capital assessment into business decisions, and thereby further empowering Chinese enterprises to achieve sustainability.
The Hub will also be continuing its work with the TEEBAgrifood Project, and translating Capitals Coalition offerings.
For more information please contact Xinyuan Lu.
India Hub
Lead Organization: Centre for Responsible Business
CRB has been established as a think tank to promote the understanding among relevant stakeholders on social, environmental and economic sustainability issues – thereby leading to the achievement of Sustainable Development Goals.
For more information please contact Hannah Collier.
Lead Organization: IBCSD
The objective of the Indonesian Hub is to push forward integration of the value of nature and people in business decision-making process and scaling up the capital approaches. The Hub offers the opportunity to broaden network and fostering collaboration to sharing information, knowledge, and best practices.
For more information, please contact: Fierra Setyawan.
Lead Organization: Etifor – Valuing Nature
The Italy Hub aims to enhance the approach to capital among Italian organizations by creating a strong stakeholder network and collaborating with existing entities such as the Italian Business @ Biodiversity Working Group.
Etifor, the environmental consultancy leading the hub, places nature at the core of decision-making processes by developing science-based solutions. The company improves the economic, environmental, and social benefits of policies, projects, and investments through customised consultancy services for private companies, organisations, and public administrations. Nature Positive involves understanding and prioritising all impacts and dependencies on nature, a commitment that Etifor upholds daily together with its partners.
For more information, please contact: Alessandro Leonardi
Lead Organization: IMS Luxembourg
Through the platform, the Luxembourg Hub want to bring the topics of nature’s and people’s value under the spotlight through various projects and actions, mainly aimed at businesses in Luxembourg. This goal will be achieved through online training, working groups, conferences with experts, events, meetings with CEOs, publications (guides, articles), etc. The hub’s three watchwords are awareness-raising, commitment, action. The platform will play a key role in sharing experiences, resources and ideas as well as in connecting actors committed to the movement.
Planned events: Participation in awareness-raising events throughout the first half of 2022. Thematic workshops are in development to decipher the landscape of existing tools and initiatives to help companies take action on biodiversity, highlight inspiring practice and share knowledge.
For more information, please contact Penda Fall.
Lead Organizations: MESD & WWF
Bringing together and mobilizing all stakeholders and capitalizing on good practice with the aim of reversing the loss of natural capital in line with the commitments made by the Leaders for Nature.
Watch a video on the Nat Cap Madagascar Hub here.
For more information please contact Lie Haar Andriamanalina.
Lead Organization: Mexican Alliance for Business and Biodiversity (AMEBIN).
The Hub is being built with the help of the Mexican Alliance for Business and Biodiversity (AMEBIN) as the follow up of the process made during 2020 to train Mexican agrobusinesses with the capitals thinking approach, which is a new topic for the national context.
The objective that the Platform will achieve will be to identify, contact, and document existing projects that are already being executed in the country by the private sector with the aim of applying sustainable agriculture activities, specifically with the use of land. Also, the hub plans on mapping, contacting, and documenting financial and technological solutions that are already available in the country and that respond to the national context.
The hub believes these starting activities are important to get to know the current state (and actors) of the advances, challenges, and objectives faced by the private sector in the implementation of their plans and objectives related to sustainable agriculture in the country
For more information please contact Daniel Sanchez y Sanchez.
The objective of the Netherlands Hub is to, together with companies and entrepreneurs, work towards the new economy. The hub pursues a shared goal of a healthy, future-proof economy in which positive financial results go hand in hand with care for people and planet. Their mission is to inspire, connect and accelerate companies and organizations towards climate neutral, circular and inclusive business. With a network of over 2000 companies – SMEs as well as large enterprises – they strive for maximum impact, on a national as was as an international level.
The hub strongly believes in the concept of ‘true value’, whereby externalities are internalized. In ‘the new economy’, dependencies, impacts and risks on natural, social and human capital are fully taken into account in business decisions and transparent disclosure.
As a regional hub, Future Up works with front running companies, business coalitions and stakeholder to apply Natural and the Social & Human Capital Protocols to specific industries such as agriculture, food, construction and the chemical sector.
For more information please contact Erwin van Overbeek.
Lead Organization: Scottish Forum on Natural Capital
The Scottish Forum on Natural Capital is an initiative which brings together public, private and voluntary sector organizations in order to protect and rebuild Scotland’s natural capital.
Through their work, they strive to enable businesses and policymakers gain a better understanding of how we rely on – and impact on – our natural capital. By making these connections visible, the protection and enhancement of Scotland’s natural wealth becomes a viable option for decision makers, providing a range of benefits for the whole society.
As a Hub, the Scottish Forum on Natural Capital offers a range of support for Scottish businesses who want to understand their relationship with natural capital, including a range of events and workshops throughout and tailored advice through their ‘Ask and Expert Service’.
For more information please contact Tom McKenna.
Lead Organization: The Endangered Wildlife Trust
The South Africa Hub aims to promote the Capitals Coalition through dissemination with South African corporates. The hub also participates in global events and collaborates with the Coalition on the development of new biodiversity tools.
For more information please contact: Stephany Breytenbach.
Lead Organization: Ecoacsa Reserva de Biodiversidad S.L.
Natural Capital Factory is the Spanish Natural Capital Regional Platform. The platform will convene the Spanish community around natural capital approaches, with the aim of ensuring that nature is being included in the decision making of organizations. The platform offers ongoing and specialized training on news, developments and markets trends related to business management of natural capital, and promotes analysis, dialogue and the Spanish representation before the global movement on natural capital.
Previous events: Natural Capital Summit in June 2018, Workshop for the Biodiversity Supplement in 2018, workshop at the Spanish Environment National Summit in 2017, a ‘Connecting Finance and Natural Capital’ pilot study in 2018.
Events planned: A webinar and capacity building programme.
For more information please contact: David Alvarez
Lead Organization: Sustainability to Action
The objective for the UAE Hub is to collaborate with businesses, not-for-profit and government bodies to promote the understanding, incorporation and commitment of the Natural Capital Protocol in their day-to-day work and decision-making processes.
The hub aims to support the Capitals Coalition in raising awareness and advancing efforts related to measuring, valuing and sustainably managing natural capital to support business decisions and outcomes within the UAE.
The UAE Hub’s goal is to establish a network of businesses and organizations in the UAE who will be better able to share knowledge and experiences in integrating natural capital into decision making, as they address sustainability issues.
In addition, the hub will also address how natural capital tools can help support efforts to implement circular economy approaches.
For more information please contact Sandra Anani.
Lead Organization: Natural Eco Capital
The hub’s objective is to promote awareness on what natural capital is about, and the need to manage it more responsibly in West Africa. They aim to work towards the integration of natural capital within accounting systems and business strategies, and decision-making in policy and business.
Planned events: Workshops and trainings that raise awareness of and build capacities amongst public sector organizations and the private sector players, especially the financial institutions on the risks and opportunities in effective management of natural capital which we all rely on. We would also work with partners/interested parties to carry out natural capital assessment and/or accounting for business risks management and increase in the bottom line associated with material impacts and thus report adequately natural capital.
For more information please contact Eugene Itua.
Join the Coalition
Do you allocate capital in your work? Do you need approaches that provide insights into nature and climate risks? Do you assess or account for the value of nature and people in your investment or business decisions?