WBCSD's most impactful tools & resources
Strategic overview
- Business Breakthrough Barometer 2025
- Building the business case for sustainability
- Briefing on key trends for 2024
- Catching the wave
- Time to Transform
- Macrotrends & Disruptions shaping 2020-2030 (Vision 2050 issue brief)
- Building long term business resilience
- Reinventing capitalism: a transformation agenda
- Unlocking systems transformation
- The Case for Beyond-Value-Chain Actions
Climate action
- The Climate Drive: One-stop & open digital platform to accelerate climate action
- The Business Leaders Guide to Climate Adaptation & Resilience
- Climate-related financial impact guide
- Guidance on Avoided Emissions
- Pathfinder Framework Version 2.0
- Removing carbon responsibly
- Accelerating decarbonization by aligning the efforts of business and finance
- Incentives for supply chain decarbonization
Nature action
- Nature-based Solutions Blueprint
- Nature-based Solutions Map
- Business guidance on the assessment of wastewater-related impacts
- Natural Climate Solutions and the Voluntary Carbon Market
- A Buyer’s Guide to Natural Climate Solutions Carbon Credits
- Roadmaps to Nature Positive: Foundations for all businesses
- WBCSD’s TNFD pilot
Equity action
Corporate Performance & Accountability (CP&A)
- Corporate Performance & Accountability System (CPAS)
- Getting Ahead of Physical Risk
- Climate-related CEO Guide to CPAS
- Transition Plan Unlocks
- Building the business case for sustainability
- Preparer Forum for Sustainability Disclosure (PFSD)
- Sustainability in the equity story
- Integrated Performance Management Framework
- An architecture for sustainable value transition within social and planetary boundaries
- Future-Proof Business
Agriculture & food
- Food & Agriculture Roadmap
- Integrating Nature: Assessing Interconnected Risks in the Food Retail Ecosystem
- Food Labeling: Principles to Support the Uptake of Healthy and Sustainable Diets
- Foundations for the agri-food system – landscape deep dives
- Foundations for the Agri-Food System - Row Crop Commodities Subsector
- Toward a Just Transition in an Age of AgTech
- Scope 3 Action Agenda for the Agrifood Sector
Learn from others
Impactful case studies from real companies
Recommended courses
View AllIntroduction to Sustainability in Business
The Introduction to Sustainability in Business (ISB) is the flagship course of the WBCSD online Academy- a foundational, self-paced course designed to equip learners with the knowledge, mindset, and practical tools to drive positive change, foster sustainability and effectively communicate its importance within their organizations and community.
Circular Transition Indicators: Foundation and Practitioner
In the Foundation course, you’ll gain in-depth knowledge of the metrics included in the Circular Transition Indicators. This course takes 3 hours in total and self-paced.
The Practitioner course will provide you with all the foundational knowledge on CTI and provides skills on how to implement CTI following the CTI seven-step process. This course takes 5 hours in total, is self-paced and is CPD accredited.
The Investor Assurance Course
This self-paced online investor course allows you to discover how to use third-party assurance for better investment decisions, monitoring and stewardship.
Latest publications
Featured resources
Energy Industrial pathway
- Quantifying Climate-related Financial Impacts in the Oil and Gas Sector
- Foundations for the energy system
- A guide to 1.5°C-aligned hydrogen investments
- How to decarbonize commercial and industrial heat use with third-party capital investments
- Policy strategies to grow decarbonized hydrogen demand: Sector-specific recommendations
- Sector Transformation: An SDG Roadmap for Electric Utilities
Built Environment Industrial and Transportation & Mobility Industrial pathways
- Net-zero operational carbon buildings: State of the art
- The Roadmap to Nature Positive: Foundations for the built environment system
- Finance and built environment primer: Accelerating the decarbonization of the built environment through finance sector engagement
- How to use data for faster and better charging
- Zero-Emission Vehicle Emerging Markets Initiative: Public-private collaboration models & best practices
Products & materials
- Circular Transition Indicators
- CTI – Guidance for the chemical industry to accelerate deployment of circular metrics
- Circular Transition Indicators (CTI): Sector guidance – Fashion and Textile
- Circular Transition Indicators (CTI): Sector guidance – Electronics devices
- Enabling corporate plastics disclosure: Building a plastics protocol
- Portfolio Sustainability Assessment v2.0
- SPHERE: the packaging sustainability framework