Category: WBCSD News & Insights
The top five business reasons to invest in Natural Climate Solutions
Natural climate solutions (NCS) remain relatively untapped as an asset class especially for most large-scale traditional investors. As the business case and potential for financial returns are better demonstrated and understood, the opportunity (…)
Opinion Piece in Reuters: OP2B members unite to highlight the transformative power of regenerative agriculture
As global sustainability leaders gather for Climate Week NYC 2024, the urgent need to address climate change, biodiversity loss, and socio-economic challenges is more pressing (…)
New guidance for financial institutions on why and how to integrate deforestation into financial disclosure
WBCSD outlines four steps to integrating deforestation into climate- and nature-related financial disclosure to help financial institutions improve transparency on material risks and meet net (…)
Unleashing corporate target-setting for nature at scale
Climate Week NYC is a key milestone ahead of CBD COP16, providing an important opportunity to highlight the interlinked solution-sets to climate change and nature (…)
Press release: Global regenerative agriculture initiative hits major milestones as collaborative efforts accelerate
5-Year Progress Report: Global Regenerative Agriculture Coalition Reaches Major Milestone of $3.6 Billion Invested, 300,000 Farmers Enrolled in Programs; 12.5 Million Hectare Regenerative Agriculture Footprint (…)
How trade associations can help put the world on a sustainable path
WBCSD and Volans are collaborating to co-create best practice guidance for companies looking to assess, align and activate their trade associations on sustainability-relevant policy issues. (…)
Global Circularity Initiative Set to Deliver 100 Billion Tons of Material Savings by 2050, Slashing Annual CO2 Emissions by 6%
In a significant step towards accelerating the global transition to a circular economy, the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) and the One Planet (…)
WBCSD launches Young Professionals Program to empower the next generation of sustainability leaders
Geneva, 12 September 2024 – The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) is excited to announce the launch of its Young Professionals Program (YPP), (…)
Narrowing, slowing and closing plastics loops: companies’ circularity strategies, performance measurement and accountability to end plastic pollution
Learning from the case study Evaluating progress on plastic pollution mitigation: circularity & plastic footprint. We face a global resource crisis where demand is outstripping (…)