This document discusses an alliance aimed at helping achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals through benchmarking corporations. The alliance includes over 100 organizations from civil society, finance, and other sectors. It aims to incentivize companies to improve sustainability and hold them accountable through peer comparison. The World Benchmarking Alliance has launched benchmarks for 2000 influential companies and 12 fertilizer companies. It is developing a framework to benchmark private sector progress on food system transformations related to nutrition, environment and social inclusion. The framework will incorporate existing benchmarks and metrics. The alliance has an ambitious timeline to establish baselines, targets and conduct benchmarking over the next decade to encourage progress by 2030.

1. Incentivizing and aligning Sustainability
Programs through Benchmarking
2020 IFA Global Stewardship Conference
New York, 5 February 2020

2. A growing global alliance aimed at helping achieve the SDGs
through corporate benchmarking
117 Allies
47 Civil society organizations
27 Financial institutions
14 Standards, benchmarks,
monitoring platforms
11 Business platforms
7 Research institutions
7 Governments/multilaterals
4 Consultancies

3. • Calls upon the competitive spirit in the
private sector for a race to the top
• Holds companies to account, allows for
peer comparison, gives credit to leaders
• Clarifies society’s expectations for the
private sector
• Builds bridges between public and private
sectors
• Empowers stakeholders to have an
informed dialogue with companies
The value of benchmarking:
drawing on a decade of experience
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4. Creation of WBA was triggered by
a global call from CEO’s
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• Called for more benchmarks to mobilize investors and
incentivize companies to contribute to the SDGs
• Flagged that the current landscape of benchmarks is a
‘headache’ for companies in and investors
• Highlighted the need for more structure and alignment
in the landscape of accountability mechanisms

5. WBA benchmarks focus on seven transformations
fundamental to achieving the SDGs
Measuring what matters most. Seven systems transformations for benchmarking
companies on the SDGs.
https://www.worldbenchmarkingalliance.org/systems-transformations-report/

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The benchmarking journey

7. WBA launched the SDG2000 in Davos: the 2000
companies most influential for achieving the SDGs
SDG 2000
• 2000 unique companies
• $43 trillion in revenues
• 74 countries
• 36 industry groups
Food & Agriculture 350
• 350 companies across the value chain
• 12 primary fertilizers companies
• 20+ other with fertilizers in their portfolios
Fertilizer companies in SDG2000
1. CF Industries
2. EuroChem
3. Indian Farmers Fertiliser Cooperative (IFFCO)
4. Israel Chemicals
5. K&S
6. Mosaic
7. Muragappa Group (Coromandel)
8. Nutrien
9. OCP
10. PhosAgro
11. Wengfu Group
12. Yara
https://sdg2000.worldbenchmarkingalliance.org

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We are translating the food system transformation
agenda’s into a framework for the private sector
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9. Existing benchmarks feed into the framework to
promote alignment, structure and interlinkages
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10. Ambitious timeline to incentivize progress
in a decade towards 2030
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2020 Tokyo
Nutrition Summit
Baseline Benchmark
2021
UN Food System
Summit
First benchmark
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Start decade
towards 2030
Call to action for selected
keystone companies
2020 Stockholm
EAT Forum
Methodology Framework
Food system transformation agenda
translated for private sector
• Integrate science-based targets
• Add industry-specific indicators
• Add region-specific indicators