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Join the leading community of global businesses making sustainability performance a key driver for competitiveness

"We strive to work with our partners across industries to create enduring, wide-ranging, and impactful value for our stakeholders. We are excited to collaborate with WBCSD on advancing our climate actions, along with other initiatives, that contribute to a net-zero and sustainable future."

— Toby Xu

Chief Financial Officer of Alibaba Group and Chair of the Group's Sustainability Steering Committee

"We are excited to contribute insights gained from over 20 years of experience to advance market-based solutions to decarbonization. With this membership, Anew is taking part in important ongoing dialogue and resulting action with the global business community in support of sustainability and climate change mitigation."

— Bill Townsend

Chief Strategy Officer, Anew

"As part of our WBCSD membership, Daikin is looking forward to working with many companies across sectors and regions to address social issues such as climate change and contribute to realizing sustainability"

— Masanori Togawa

Daikin CEO

"We are looking forward to bringing our expertise and scale to bear in tackling the most pressing sustainability issues our industry faces. This partnership with WBCSD reflects our commitment to being both a leader and a trusted partner in the global efforts to reduce carbon emissions"

— Pascale Wautelet

VP R&D and Sustainability, Label and Graphic Materials, Avery Dennison

WBCSD enables business leaders to lead where others follow and to collaborate where alignment is essential.

How we turn sustainability into a lever for competitiveness:

Connecting leaders to collectively scale positive impact

Driving collaborative action and innovation within and across value chains

Elevating the voice of forward-thinking business to shape ambitious policies

Rewiring the economic incentives to drive corporate performance

Enabling company leaders to execute transition strategies

Members success stories

The Carbon Trust’s Net Zero report: Climate experts share learnings from their decarbonisation journey

The global goal to halve emissions by 2030 is fast approaching. To help achieve this, many of us have set ambitious interim targets for 2030 and (…)

A Net Positive imperative: Why and how business must lead on sustainable, people-centered growth

Across the global economy, the expectations placed on businesses are evolving at a remarkable pace. Customers, regulators, investors, and society at large now demand that (…)

Apple unveils environmental progress, surpassing 60 percent reduction in global greenhouse gas emissions

Ahead of Earth Day, Apple hits new milestones in emissions reductions, clean energy, and recycled materials. Customers are invited to recycle devices in-store with a (…)
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Turn sustainability into a competitive advantage

and lead your business with confidence, trust, and impact

“30 years ago, we made a choice. To give business a voice on sustainability. Since then, we’ve built the tools, led breakthrough innovations, and proven that action drives real change. But the challenges ahead are real - record heat, geopolitical uncertainty, and the rising cost of inaction. Business must lead the way. The tools are ready. The business case is real. Now it’s time to step up”

How we help members succeed

We enable members to turn sustainability into execution-and execution into advantage.

Connect supply and demand

Scaling solutions across and within value chains

Prioritize what drives impact

Navigating standards, disclosures, and reporting complexity

Enable execution

By integrating sustainability into governance, risk, and capital planning

Support credible transition planning

Across emissions reduction, nature, resilience, and adaptation

Create trusted spaces

To align with governments, peers, and investors on shared priorities

Anticipate regulatory shifts

By grounding action in regional realities

Solve shared problems

Through aligned investment and collaborative innovation

Meet the team

Stephanie de Heer

Stephanie de Heer →

Chief Marketing & Member Officer - CMO

Mrs. Stephanie de Heer is Chief Marketing & Member Officer (CMO) and a member of the Leadership Team (LT) at the World Business Council for (…)

Holly Crilly

Holly Crilly →

Senior Director, Member Relations

Holly Crilly is a seasoned executive with a dynamic career spanning corporate strategy, sustainability, and stakeholder engagement. As Senior Director of Member Relations at the (…)

William Sisson

William Sisson →

Executive Director, Americas

William (Bill) Sisson is Executive Director, Americas, for WBCSD. He oversees WBCSD’s regional strategy, relations and growth efforts, sustainability focused member projects and strategic engagements (…)

Jeff Turner

Jeff Turner →

Senior Advisor-Pathways

Jeff Turner is a Senior Advisor at WBCSD (World Business Council for Sustainable Development) working with WBCSD leadership across its broad climate, nature and equity (…)

Joe Phelan

Joe Phelan →

Executive Director Asia Pacific

Joe is Executive Director, Asia Pacific for the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, the global, CEO-led community of the world’s leading sustainable businesses working (…)

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