Opportunities for businesses to use and support development of SEEA-aligned natural capital accounts

•Businesses are increasingly addressing their natural capital impacts and dependencies, which will require credible, consistent data that a lot of businesses do not currently possess in house or know how to access.•The lack of standardized, high quality, and regularly collected data is a major obstacle to businesses’ efforts to measure and report on natural capital.•Currently, SEEA-aligned natural capital accounts (NCA) are not widely used to inform business decisions but have the potential to help meet some of the business community's natural capital data needs related to a range of critical decisions and actions.•Businesses may also be able to support the advancement of SEEA-aligned NCA by providing information and supporting and/or participating in collaborative efforts to compile and maintain the accounts.•Several areas are identified for strengthening and further developing SEEA-aligned NCA in the US so that the accounts will be relevant for a wide range of uses and applications by businesses.