
The Accountability Accelerator aims to
- Strengthen and accelerate corporate accountability: Support, through participatory grant-making, organizations working on targets, frameworks, skills, resources, and pressures to push for credible action.
- Support the broader accountability ecosystem: Coordinate and support a tightly woven web of accountability actors, using various tools both in the Global South and North to drive action and push corporate action and accountability for nature.
- Influence governments to drive corporate action: Push governments to demonstrably provide the enabling environment for business & finance to halt and reverse nature loss.
Accountability Accelerator’s Main Functions
- Grant-maker: Participatory grant-maker providing funding support for global, early-stage, innovative accountability projects and actors.
- Orchestrator: Align stakeholders, strengthen accountability architecture, identify accountability gaps and opportunities, capture learnings and insights.
- Convener: Create a safe place to bring all the stakeholders together to learn from each other, think creatively, and spur action.
Approach
The challenges the Accountability Accelerator is setting out to solve are not new but they are complex. The accountability landscape for corporate sustainability is highly fragmented with many gaps in data and standards, lack of coordination, and disconnects between different actors working in different regions of the world.
Accountability is an ecosystem of actors and actions which includes incentives for companies to take the first steps towards a nature-positive economy as well as resources and ongoing support, and finally, putting pressure and holding companies accountable for their commitments and actions. The tighter and more coordinated the web, the less opportunities for inaction and greenwashing. Companies and governments have a crucial role to play and must be engaged in the process.
To achieve our mission, we believe all stakeholders must work together and be supported by a multi-layered accountability ecosystem or architecture with mutually reinforcing and complementary approaches that ensure accountability for all.