Capitals Coalition

What Capitals Coalition does

Capitals Coalition is a Netherlands-based non-profit collaboration founded in 2012 and headquartered in Den Haag. Its stated purpose is to redefine how value is measured and incorporated into decision-making, with a current operational focus on natural capital accounting — the practice of measuring, valuing, and disclosing organizations' impacts and dependencies on nature.

The Coalition is leading the Forestry Natural Capital Project, a global initiative that brings together 18 participating forestry organizations across 38 countries, collectively managing over 23 million hectares of forest. The project applies established disclosure and accounting frameworks — principally TNFD (Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures) and the Natural Capital Protocol — to develop harmonized metrics for ecosystem services and to produce comparable natural capital accounts for the forestry sector. A sector-wide natural capital report is planned for publication around COP31 in 2026. Active convenings in Helsinki (October 2025) and Tokyo (March 2026) indicate ongoing coalition coordination across multiple geographies.

The Coalition operates as a standards-setting/membership body rather than a commercial enterprise. No proprietary technology, pricing model, revenue mechanics, or app/product surface has been disclosed in the available material. Its "products" are frameworks, coalition convening, and forthcoming reporting outputs. No management team, funding rounds, investors, partnerships, awards, or M&A activity are documented in the source inputs, reflecting a thin public commercial footprint relative to its substantive convening role.

Name

Capitals Coalition

Website

https://capitalscoalition.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2012

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Capitals Coalition is a Netherlands-based non-profit collaboration driving natural capital accounting; it currently leads the Forestry Natural Capital Project, coordinating 18 forestry organizations across 38 countries using TNFD and Natural Capital Protocol frameworks.

Ownership category

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Product category

Natural Capital Accounting & Sustainability Standards

NAICS

Social Advocacy Organizations (8133), Civic and Social Organizations (813410)

SIC

Services-Membership Organizations (8600)

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Environmental & Climate Grantmaking Foundations (BPAGAKAM)

Keywords

• Natural capital accounting
• Sustainability frameworks
• Environmental disclosure standards
• Ecosystem services measurement
• TNFD implementation

Headquarters

HQ city

Den Haag

HQ country

Netherlands

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Core offering

Capitals Coalition is a non-profit collaboration that convenes businesses, financial institutions, governments, and civil society to develop and promote frameworks for measuring, valuing, and disclosing natural capital and ecosystem services. Its flagship Forestry Natural Capital Project brings together 18 organizations across 38 countries (representing over 23 million hectares of forests) to build harmonized natural capital accounts using the TNFD and Natural Capital Protocol frameworks.

Product overview

Capitals Coalition is leading the Forestry Natural Capital Project, a global initiative involving 18 organizations across 38 countries representing over 23 million hectares of forests. The initiative aims to develop harmonized natural capital accounts and consistent reporting approaches for the forestry sector using TNFD and Natural Capital Protocol frameworks, with a sector-wide natural capital report planned for publication around COP31 in 2026.

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Functional benefit

Products and services

• Forestry Natural Capital Project A global initiative convening 18 organizations across 38 countries that collectively manage over 23 million hectares of forests. The project develops harmonized metrics and natural capital accounting approaches to improve reporting and investment decisions for the forestry sector, with a sector-wide natural capital report planned for publication around COP31 in 2026.

Quantifiable outcome

• Sector-wide natural capital report planned for publication around COP31 in 2026

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Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

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Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves3 records

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Broad incumbents

• World Resources Institute (WRI): WRI is a large global environmental research nonprofit that works on natural capital, forests, and corporate sustainability. It overlaps thematically but operates at a much larger scale and broader scope than the Capitals Coalition's focused coalition approach.
• Value Reporting Foundation (now part of IFRS Foundation – ISSB): Formerly SASB and the Integrated Reporting Framework, now consolidated into the ISSB, this organization sets investor-grade sustainability disclosure standards. It is a broader incumbent in the same disclosure-standards space as Capitals Coalition's forestry work.
• European Financial Reporting Advisory Group (EFRAG) – Sustainability Reporting: EFRAG provides technical advice to the European Commission on sustainability reporting standards (ESRS). Its regulatory standards-setting role parallels Capitals Coalition's industry-led natural capital accounting work for corporates operating in EU markets.

Direct peers

• World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD): WBCSD is a CEO-led business coalition that convenes member companies to develop and apply sustainability standards — closely analogous to Capitals Coalition's coalition-based model for natural capital accounting, just across a broader sustainability mandate.
• Global Reporting Initiative (GRI): GRI is the long-established multistakeholder standards setter for sustainability reporting. It overlaps with Capitals Coalition's goal of harmonizing how corporates disclose environmental performance and competes for influence over disclosure regimes.
• Natural Capital Project: An academic-practitioner community (anchored at Stanford) that develops ecosystem service measurement and valuation tools. It shares Capitals Coalition's natural capital accounting mission and overlapping frameworks, making it a methodological peer.
• Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD): TNFD is the disclosure framework provider whose standards Capitals Coalition operationalizes for the forestry sector. They are tightly coupled: the coalition uses TNFD and the Natural Capital Protocol to produce forestry-specific accounts, making TNFD the closest collaborator and adjacent standard-setter.
• CDP (formerly Carbon Disclosure Project): CDP runs the world's largest environmental disclosure system for companies, cities, states and regions. It serves overlapping corporate audiences and pursues the same end of standardized environmental data, including growing work on nature-related disclosures that parallels TNFD.

Emerging players

• Business for Social Responsibility (BSR): BSR is a sustainable business network and consultancy that helps member companies operationalize sustainability practices — including nature-related work — making it an adjacent coalition/peer with overlapping corporate sustainability targets.
• Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi): SBTi is a standards body helping companies set science-based climate and nature targets. It intersects with Capitals Coalition's natural capital accounting mission by translating measurement into corporate target-setting, addressing a downstream step in the same value chain.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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