Geneva, 9 October 2008 - Nobody is surprised when their water is cut off if they haven't paid the bill. We admit that companies have to recoup their investments and maintain infrastructure (water withdrawal, treatment, distribution, etc.), on top of paying staff and suppliers. Why don't we apply the same logic to the services offered by nature?
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Barcelona, 8 October 2008 - The world's forests have immense potential to lessen the impacts of climate change, but if this opportunity is going to be realized, unified global action is now required, according to a remarkable alliance of international forest leaders.
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Washington D.C., 7 October 2008 - WBCSD President Björn Stigson today addressed global steel companies at the World Steel Association's 42nd annual conference. The theme is sustainability.
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Barcelona, 7 October 2008 - Intensively managed planted forests are grown primarily for wood and fiber production. They are highly productive, delivering about 40 per cent of the world's industrial wood supply and covering 25 million hectares globally, yet they are sometimes criticized for contributing to social conflict and environment degradation.
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Barcelona, 6 October 2008 - A two-minute video, made by some of the world's up-and-coming business leaders and launched at the World Conservation Forum, illustrates the need to “balance” the world to protect its fragile natural resources.
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Barcelona, 6 October 2008 - WBCSD President Björn Stigson provided a business perspective as part of the plenary panel today at the IUCN World Conservation Forum. The panel, "A Diverse and Sustainable World", was part of the opening program for the world's largest and most important conservation event, which is held every four years.
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Geneva, 3 October 2008 - Corporations affect ecosystems and the services they provide while at the same time relying on them. Agribusiness depends on nature's pollination, pest control and erosion regulation services. The insurance industry and infrastructure and plant asset owners benefit from the natural hazard protections that some ecosystems provide.
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Geneva, 30 September 2008 - The Council and IUCN leverage each other’s work very well. IUCN helps WBCSD members understand their dependence on ecosystems. The WBCSD helps IUCN learn to engage with business.
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Geneva, 29 September 2008 - “It is only by involving a range of committed stakeholders that we will make inroads. Business needs to identify its niche, but work in partnership with others that have different skill-sets,” said Alison Baker from GHD at the Partnering with Business to Find Sanitation Solutions seminar co-convened by the WBCSD, the UNDP and SIWI during World Water Week in Stockholm.
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Geneva, 26 September 2008 - This week, the WBCSD attended a High-Level Event on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), convened in New York City by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. The WBCSD argued that while business alone cannot solve poverty, it is an integral part of the solution. It also urged policy-makers to work with business to ensure that solutions to development challenges leverage business expertise, with a view to supporting sustainable livelihoods and making globalization more inclusive.
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Geneva, 22 September 2008 - From 5 to 14 October, the world's largest and most diverse conservation event will be taking place in Barcelona the World Conservation Forum and Congress. The WBCSD will provide the exclusive private sector perspective to the event. More than 70 companies will take part in the jam-packed program, organized by the International Union for Conservation of Nature, and top CEOs will be contributing, too, from Shell, Holcim, Rio Tinto, Interface, BC Hydro and the International Herald Tribune, to name a few.
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Geneva, 19 September 2008 - Delegates from business, government, non-governmental organizations and financial institutions yesterday discussed ways to provide sustainable, affordable and reliable energy services for currently underserved populations in India. The one-day stakeholder dialogue on access to energy in India was co-organized by the WBCSD and TERI-BCSD India.
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Geneva, 18 September 2008 - Björn Stigson, president of the WBCSD, today addressed a high-level meeting of representatives from the United States, China and Australia who gathered together to discuss cooperating on energy security and cutting carbon emissions.
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Geneva, 16 September 2008 - Björn Stigson, President of the WBCSD, in this podcast, talks about the Eco-Patent Commons, a first-of-its-kind business effort where companies help the environment by putting into the public domain patented technology that has conservation benefits.
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Geneva, 10 September 2008 - The Mexico Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Program enables companies to prepare a GHG inventory that represents a true and fair account of their emissions, and that can be used to build an effective strategy to manage and reduce emissions.
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