This metric was designed by The World Benchmarking Alliance, more information can be found here. Sources and Alignments for each indicator can be found here as well as the scoring guidelines here

The World Benchmarking Alliance's Nature Benchmark measures and ranks the world's most influential companies on their efforts to protect our environment and its biodiversity.

This metric relates to the Indicator: The company adopts practices that reduce soil degradation and improve soil health across the most material parts of its value chain.

Rationale: Over 40% of living organisms in terrestrial ecosystems associate directly with soils during their life cycle, making soils among the most important reservoirs of biodiversity (UNEP, BRS Conventions and Minamata Convention, 2021). However, current unsustainable agricultural practices and other business activities have led to the degradation of around one-third of the world's soil, resulting in significant negative impacts on biodiversity and soil health (TEEB, 2018). This indicator focuses on practices that reduce soil degradation and encourage regeneration in the system by improving soil health and agrobiodiversity.These include helping to tackle climate change, improving air and water quality and reducing the cost of accessing goods and services.