Delivering climate action and improving business performance
Engage with the Emissions Reduction Accelerator (ERA) and join a community of leading businesses and value chains as they turn ambition into action – accelerating emissions reduction and improving business performance for all.
Perform better
- Operational efficiency: Improve energy, material and process efficiencies – unlock cost and resource benefits
- Risk management & resilience: Anticipate and manage sustainability, supply chain and policy risks
- Investor engagement: Build trust through transparency with capital market
Grow faster
- License to operate & policy: Engage with the regulatory landscape for smoother market entry
- Market growth & innovation: Access future-facing markets through sustainable innovation
- Collective actions: Scale impact and de-risk investments through peer and supplier partnerships
Lead with credibility
- Stakeholder trust: Strengthen reputation with customers, investors and regulators
- Workforce enablement: Equip teams with the knowledge and capabilities to deliver transformation
- Intangible value (brand and valuation): Enhance brand equity and long-term value
ERA responds to the business need for solutions that unlock business value while accelerating emissions reduction
WBCSD is leveraging its unique platform, and climate, nature and equity expertise to strengthen its value chains programs. Through value chain mapping, capability building, advanced digital tools, and coordinated interventions, ERA is identifying emissions hotspots and unlocking scalable win-win solutions for value chains.
Together with members and partners, here’s how we’re doing it:
Mapping the value chain
Mapping and positioning WBCSD members across value chains to reveal their respective commercial, operational and environmental impact
Assessing capabilities
Understanding members’ interconnected scope 3 challenges and opportunities and engaging in collective action solutions and capability building
Identifying hotspots and impact interventions
Leveraging available emissions, operations and capital spending data to identify hotspots in each value chain that offer opportunities for emissions reductions and business value creation
Harnessing AI
Engaging AI and LLM models to interrogate intervention opportunities, reveal optimal use of available tools and solutions, build out use-cases and create data connectivity
Driving implementation
Supporting collective action on interventions that unlock supply and demand for low-carbon products and materials, increase efficiencies and scale innovation
Key Report
Accelerating Emissions Reductions and Strengthening Business Performance
As climate risks intensify the need for decisive, collective climate action has never been greater. The Emissions Reduction Accelerator (ERA) is designed to help companies move from ambition to impact – uniting value chain actors to achieve meaningful emissions reductions while unlocking business value for all. This report – produced by WBCSD and EY – reveals how, through collaboration and innovation, businesses can turn climate leadership into operational efficiency, resilience, and growth.
Discover how ERA can position your organization at the forefront of sustainability and why the moment to act is now.
The time for action is now. WBCSD has the unique opportunity to convene 250+ of the world’s leading companies to achieve a future that protects our people, planet and purpose.
— Peter Bakker
President & CEO, WBCSD
