Our International Partners
CHC’s formal roles within the global non-financial capital and biodiversity landscape.
CHC occupies a deliberate position at the intersection of international frameworks and Canadian implementation. Our formal partnerships are not affiliations in name only — each carries specific responsibilities, shared workstreams, and access to global peer networks that we make available to Canadian organizations. The three relationships described below define much of the international architecture within which CHC operates.
Global Framework Partner
Capitals Coalition
Canadian Hub
The Capitals Coalition is the international body behind the Natural Capital Protocol and the Social and Human Capital Protocol — the two most widely adopted methodological frameworks for measuring and accounting for non-financial value in business decision-making. With a membership of over 370 leading organizations across business, finance, government, and civil society, the Coalition works to mainstream the use of capitals thinking globally, embedding it in corporate strategy, regulatory frameworks, and investment practice.
CHC is the Canadian Hub of the Capitals Coalition, serving as the primary point of access for Canadian organizations engaging with the Capitals approach. In practical terms, this means connecting Canadian businesses and policymakers to Coalition tools, guidance, and peer networks; representing Canadian perspectives within the Coalition’s global strategy; and supporting the adaptation of internationally developed frameworks to the Canadian regulatory and sectoral context. The relationship positions CHC as both a national resource and an active participant in the Coalition’s ongoing development of the capitals approach.
The Coalition’s current strategic direction is moving toward integrated impact accounting that extends well beyond voluntary disclosure — most visibly through its merger with the International Foundation for Valuing Impacts. For Canadian organizations, CHC’s hub role provides direct access to these developments as they take shape, through the peer networks, tools, and guidance that the Coalition makes available to its national hubs.
UN Convention on Biological Diversity
Global Partnership for Business and Biodiversity
Canadian National Focal Point
The Global Partnership for Business and Biodiversity (GPBB) is an initiative of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity, established to foster greater engagement between the private sector and the international biodiversity agenda. Operating as a network of national and regional Business and Biodiversity initiatives, the GPBB serves as a bridge between intergovernmental biodiversity commitments — most recently the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework — and the business community responsible for a significant share of both biodiversity impact and restoration potential.
CHC serves as the National Focal Point for the GPBB in Canada, a designation that carries both representational and convening responsibilities. In this role, CHC connects Canadian businesses to the tools, guidance, and peer networks developed through the GPBB; communicates Canadian business perspectives into the CBD’s Business and Biodiversity Programme; and supports Canadian organizations in understanding and responding to the disclosure and target-setting expectations that flow from the Kunming-Montreal Framework. Biodiversity-related disclosure requirements are gaining traction quickly — through instruments such as the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures and an expanding set of regulatory frameworks — and the National Focal Point role gives CHC an early and direct line to the international processes driving that change.
Canada’s position as a country of extraordinary biological diversity — and as a major producer of the critical minerals required for the energy transition — makes meaningful business engagement with biodiversity frameworks both urgent and consequential. CHC’s GPBB role is grounded in that reality: ensuring Canadian business brings informed, substantive participation to the international biodiversity agenda, at the level the stakes require.
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Global Business Coalition
Business for Nature
Member
Business for Nature is a global coalition dedicated to reversing nature loss through corporate action and policy change. Its work runs along two tracks: advocacy for government policies that require and enable nature-positive business practice, and practical guidance to help companies align their operations and supply chains accordingly. Members range from major multinational corporations and financial institutions to sector associations and business coalitions — spanning industries where nature dependencies are direct and material.
CHC joined Business for Nature as a member organization in 2025, connecting our work to a global peer network and amplifying the voice of Canadian businesses in international policy processes that increasingly set the terms for nature-related disclosure and due diligence. The coalition’s advocacy reach extends across major regulatory jurisdictions, giving members early visibility into policy developments before they become compliance obligations. For CHC, membership also means access to current, coalition-tested guidance on corporate nature commitments — practical material we can bring directly to the Canadian organizations we support.
For Canadian businesses, the practical relevance of Business for Nature’s work extends across sectors: from resource extraction and agriculture, where direct nature dependencies are most visible, to financial services, where nature-related risk is increasingly material to portfolio and lending decisions. CHC’s membership supports our ability to bring current, credible guidance on these questions to the organizations we work with.
