Increasing attention for biodiversity in company reporting

For each barometer, UEBT analyses how much attention cosmetic and food companies pay to biodiversity in their corporate reports and websites.

Top 100 Beauty companies from the 2023 annual ranking by sales (WWD) Public-facing communications and actions on biodiversity

While the majority of the top 100 beauty companies in the world talk about biodiversity in public channels, fewer than half of these companies publicly communicate about actions in supply chains or sourcing areas to promote positive impact on people and biodiversity

SOURCE:  Top 100 Beauty Companies List is from the 2023 WWD Beauty Inc's annual ranking of the world's largest beauty companies by sales

Top 100 highest scoring food companies in the Nature Benchmark 2023 (WBA) Public-facing communications and actions on biodiversity

UEBT dove deeper into the biodiversity actions in supply chains of the top 100 highest scoring food companies in the Nature Benchmark of the WBA. Almost all of these companies share publicly they are taking action to in supply chains to promote positive impact on people and biodiversity.

SOURCE: UEBT decided to use the World Benchmarking Alliance lists since they hand select companies based on turnover, size, influence and then ranks them via their Nature Benchmark.  UEBT took the 2023 Nature Benchmark and extracted the 100 highest ranked companies from the WBA Nature Benchmark, in the Food/Ag category. We then went deeper to look at these on biodiversity actions in supply chains.