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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 (…)

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 (…)

General 12 Aug, 2025

Weaving climate considerations into corporate operations

Headline stats: 1/3 Only one-third of companies disclosing to the CDP have implemented climate scenario analysis 50% 50% of Scopes 1 and 2 emissions reduction can be reached at net (…)

General 8 Jul, 2025

Financing the Future of Sustainable Agriculture in Brazil’s Cerrado – Reflections from London Climate Action Week 2025 

The Soft Commodities Forum (SCF) and its partners from Tropical Forrest Alliance, IDH, Olab, Proforest, Responsible Commodities Facility, Sustainable Investment Management, The Consumer Goods Forum (…)

General 3 Jul, 2025

“From morality to materiality” – Highlights from London Climate Action Week 2025

Key steps to ensure targets are met and COP30 delivers the implementation needed

General 1 Jul, 2025

WBCSD Heads of Climate Base Camp 2025: Recharging Leadership for a Net Zero Future  

Potsdam (Germany), 20–23 May 2025: The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) welcomed climate leaders from around the world to Potsdam for its third (…)