More companies commit to nature

Visual form

Grouped set of 100 percent stacked vertical bars.

Layout / body structure

The chart is arranged by six nature-related topics across the page, with three annual stacked bars under each topic for 2022 through 2024. Read each topic block left to right across the years, then compare the topic blocks across the page and use the summary change rows at the bottom to compare multi-year movement.

What is being compared

It compares the share of Fortune Global 500 companies with nature-related targets, acknowledgments, or neither across carbon, water, chemicals and plastics, biodiversity, forest, and nutrients or nitrogen oxides. It also compares how those shares change from 2022 to 2024 in both target-only terms and combined targets-plus-acknowledgments terms.

Measurement system

Each stacked bar is measured as a percentage of companies and totals to 100 percent. The dark segment shows targets, the middle segment shows acknowledgment, and the gray segment shows neither, while the bottom rows report change in percentage points over the 2022 to 2024 period.

Visible structure inside the graphic

The visual is built from six clusters of three stacked bars, one cluster for each nature topic. Two summary lines at the bottom translate the bar movement into numeric percentage-point changes for targets alone and for targets plus acknowledgments combined.

Main takeaway from the visual

The chart shows that companies are broadening their engagement with nature-related issues beyond carbon, especially in biodiversity, forest, chemicals and plastics, and nutrients or nitrogen oxides. In most of those topics the acknowledgment and target shares expand while the gray neither segment shrinks from 2022 to 2024.

Key standout values or extremes

Carbon remains the most target-heavy topic, but its target share slips from 83 percent to 78 percent over the period. Biodiversity rises from 5 percent targets and 51 percent acknowledgments in 2022 to 12 percent targets and 64 percent acknowledgments in 2024, while forest moves from 9 percent targets and 31 percent acknowledgments to 15 percent targets and 56 percent acknowledgments; the bottom summary shows the biggest combined targets-plus-acknowledgments gain in forest at +30.4 percentage points.

Controls / sequence, when applicable

This is a static chart image with no in-chart controls to operate.

Companion media, when applicable

There is no separate companion audio or video; the chart image is the full visual on this page.