Scaling Corporate Accountability for Nature
23/07/2025
Nature isn’t a nice-to-have—it’s our life support system. It underpins climate stability, economic prosperity, and the rights and resilience of communities around the world. Yet it’s being destroyed at an unprecedented rate—often by the very supply chains that depend on it. Those same supply chains that rely on healthy ecosystems are also driving their destruction, putting long-term stability and equity at risk.
Corporate accountability is the most powerful lever we can pull to halt the damage. That’s why we fund it, orchestrate it, and connect vital work from standard setters to grassroots organisations in the field.
Our work helps companies take concrete steps to reduce harm to nature across their supply chains, while empowering civil society, media, and other actors to hold them accountable—because only through these parallel efforts can we drive the systemic change needed to protect the nature we depend on.
2024 was a year of urgency and impact
This year, our work has really gained momentum.
With just over $2 million in catalytic grants, we powered grassroots tech to expose corporate harms in Southern Africa, fueled hard-hitting investigative journalism from the Amazon to the Congo Basin, and scaled global capacity-building for science-based targets. Small investment, big impact.
Our work extends far beyond grantmaking. We launched the world’s first validation service for science-based targets for nature, helping set companies on the path to nature action. Through 15 convenings across 20 countries, we connected grassroots watchdogs to international experts and brought companies, civil society and funders together to coordinate collective action.
The impact? Grantees have used our support to secure over $3 million in additional funding. They have scaled their tools and increased pressure on some of the world’s most powerful actors. We have also used our helicopter view of the accountability ecosystem to help their efforts reach further, avoid duplication, and fit together more strategically with the work others are doing. In fact, for every $1 invested in us over the last 3 years, we have delivered a systemic impact worth over $4.
Where we’re going next
The road ahead is not easy. To continue our mission, we need to raise $8M-10M in funds over the next 3 years. Without it, the critical initiatives we fund and convene will slow. In practice, that means funding delays for our grantees doing vital work on the ground and missed opportunities to protect ecosystems facing the most acute destruction.
But with sustained investment, the possibilities are immense.
We can support the first 100 companies to set and validate science-based targets for nature, push financial institutions to embed nature risk into their decision-making, and empower policymakers to turn voluntary guidelines into enforceable law.
Our grantees will have the resources to arm communities with legal tools, democratise access to environmental data, and elevate indigenous leadership in global forums. By 2030, we could see a different kind of tipping point: financiers rewarding sustainability, businesses starting to operate within safe and just boundaries, and communities not just protected but heard, resourced, and leading the charge.
This is a pivotal moment, and we cannot afford to slow down.
So I invite you: read the report, explore the stories, see the data. And if you believe, as we do, that nature deserves more than promises…
Let’s join forces. Let’s accelerate accountability. Let’s drive transformation.
— Natasha Matic
Executive Director, Accountability Accelerator
