ABSTRACT
The World Benchmarking Alliance (WBA) has set out to develop a range of free and publicly available benchmarks to assess the progress of 2,000 keystone companies against seven systems transformations needed to achieve the sustainable development goals (SDGs). Together with allies from government, business platforms, financial institutions, academia and civil society, WBA is developing transformative methodologies and benchmarks to measure and rank the world's most influential companies on the SDGs. WBA benchmarks produce insights, data and public rankings of these keystone companies so that investors, governments, civil society, individuals and the companies themselves better understand corporate progress and can more effectively hold companies accountable for their role in advancing the SDGs. WBA benchmarks reveal to both companies and stakeholders where each company stands compared to its peers, where it can improve and where urgent action is needed to deliver on the SDGs in its business strategies, operations, supply chains and product and service portfolios.
