Accountability Accelerator ( part of Global Commons Alliance )

Accelerator Overview

Our vision is a safe and just future for people and planet.

The COP15 Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework is a great start but it needs to follow through. Corporations and financial institutions must credibly and actively contribute to a nature-positive, net zero, and equitable world, but they need support and pressures.

The missing piece is accountability.

The Accountability Accelerator seeks to deploy our resources and capabilities to support the efforts of accountability stakeholders to strengthen the accountability ecosystem. The Accelerator is a re-granter and an intermediary with people at the center of everything we do. We identify and map accountability actors and ecosystem components, provide grant support and coordination across them, convene stakeholders, and provide thought leadership.

Our grantees work globally as well as locally; they use a variety of tools for accountability — from finance to legal, data, standards and campaigns. We know companies need both incentives and pressures to act at the speed and scale that is critically needed. Our network of grantees provides support for companies (targets, frameworks, capacity building, and incentives) and also puts pressure, pushes for transformation, and drives for regulation.

The Accelerator is a component of the Global Commons Alliance, a growing coalition of scientists, philanthropists, civil society groups and innovators, enabling collective action to safeguard the global commons.

Mission

Our mission is to drive corporate and financial institution action to reverse nature loss through an impactful accountability ecosystem. We accomplish this by supporting a tight web of stakeholders working globally and locally to enable, incentivize, and pressure corporations and financial institutions to actively contribute to a nature-positive and equitable world by 2030.

Goals & Functions

Our work is united by three overarching goals: :

• An Impactful Accountability Ecosystem: We will activate, support, and connect key elements of a strong accountability ecosystem to stay on track with GBF 2030 and within Safe and Just Earth System Boundaries.
• Corporate & Financial Institution Transformation: Our network of accountability stakeholders will drive business and investors to take credible, substantiated, and verifiable action to halt and reverse nature loss for the benefit of people and planet.
• Policy & Systems Shifts: We will support the transition of policy and regulation related to corporate accountability for nature from voluntary to mandatory and fill key gaps on the system level.

We will meet our goals through three functions:

1. Grant support to organizations that spur corporate and financial institution action and strengthen the transformation ecosystem
2. Orchestration & convening of accountability stakeholders to coordinate actions and resources between nature, climate & people around the world
3. Independent validation of companies’ science-based targets for nature