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General 19 Sep, 2025

Carrier Joins the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD)

Geneva, 19 September 2025 – The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) today announced that Carrier, a global leader in intelligent climate and energy (…)

General 19 Sep, 2025

Driving business accountability for nature action along the value chain

Drawing on the experience of a working group of 24 companies active in these value chains, the piece explores the difficulties related to measurement and place-based target setting. 

General 15 Sep, 2025

An Interview with Matthew Reddy: A Global Finance Perspective on the Soft Commodities Forum 

The Soft Commodities Forum (SCF) excited to welcome Matthew Reddy, Senior Private Sector Specialist at the Global Environment Facility (GEF), to its advisory board. This (…)

Member spotlight 11 Sep, 2025

The incredible opportunity in building renovation

Large-scale energy efficiency renovations create a rare opportunity to deliver broad and lasting economic, environmental, and social benefits. Buildings might not be among the first (…)

Member spotlight 9 Sep, 2025

Sustainability at a Crossroads: A survey developed by ERM, GlobeScan and Volans

Sustainability at a Crossroads was jointly developed and fielded by GlobeScan, ERM, and Volans. This survey of 844 sustainability experts across 72 countries reveals a (…)

Member spotlight 8 Sep, 2025

On the way to zero – How Henkel wants to achieve net-zero by 2045

Achieving net-zero by 2045 – that is the target we have set ourselves at Henkel. This presents both numerous opportunities and challenges. And above all, (…)

General 5 Sep, 2025

Introduction: from intention to integration 

The sustainability narrative has become centered on materiality, effective execution, competitiveness, and commercial integration. This focus underlines the necessity of articulating sustainability matters in financial (…)

General 5 Sep, 2025

Financial quantification: leveraging the (inter)dependencies of sustainable investments 

Translating sustainability initiatives into financial terms is nuanced. Their impacts unfold across multiple dimensions of the business and over varying time horizons, making attribution and (…)

General 3 Sep, 2025

Climate Resilience Awards for Business – Now Open until 18th October 2025

Launch of the Climate Resilience Awards for Business- open until 18th October The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) and Global Resilience Partnership are (…)

General 25 Aug, 2025

A Clear Business Case for Regenerative Coffee

Year after year, coffee farmers Fedila and Mustafa saw yields decline on their 0.5-hectare plot in southern Ethiopia. Aging coffee trees and increasingly erratic weather (…)

General 25 Aug, 2025

Integrating climate with financials: Climate as an overlay to financial planning

3/4 of the largest companies globally now report sustainability information with financial disclosures in annual or integrated reports, and roughly 85% of them use double materiality, or (…)

WBCSD insights 20 Aug, 2025

Natural Hazards: How Nature-based Solutions can help protect commercial buildings & infrastructure 

Editor(s): Giulia Carbone, Nature for Climate Director at WBCSD; Madeline Ojakovoh, Manager for Climate Adaptation at WBCSD; Johan Lammerant, Global Technical Director Nature and Biodiversity at Arcadis; Daisy Hessenberger, Global Subject (…)