Our COVID-19 response can make our cities more resilient to heat waves
By including urban environments into resilience strategies we might be able to react to multiple threats simultaneously.
Category: WBCSD News & Insights
Raising ambition and accelerating action – ‘ESG Spain 2020 – Corporate Sustainability Forum’ organized by Forética
Madrid, 28 September: The eighth edition of ESG Spain 2020 was held on 23 September. This business meeting has established itself as the benchmark forum (…)
Climate and nature: key pillars for a just recovery from COVID-19
Convening leaders across hundreds of events, Climate Week NYC and UNGA75 have showed a critical step change in ambition to address the climate and nature crises.
PwC commits to net zero by 2030
Climate change is one of the most pressing problems facing our world today.
Using the circular economy to reach carbon neutrality
With commitments to net-zero emissions, many governments are making plans to achieve their targets. The city of Turku in Finland is going a step further (…)
CHANEL pioneers new Sustainability-Linked Bonds supported by BNP Paribas
BNP Paribas announced today it has supported leading luxury goods company CHANEL to issue its first Sustainability-Linked Bonds.
WBCSD supports the development of landmark SDG report focused on US agriculture
U.S. Farmers & Ranchers in Action (USFRA) , together with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) published a new Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Roadmap report to (…)
E-mobility as a case study for greener, more resilient economies
The global onset of COVID-19 has drastically affected all of us — through the fabric of our daily lives, and also through its reverberations in (…)
GPSNR: New policy framework drives commitment to sustainable natural rubber production, sourcing
Singapore, 23 September 2020: Members of the Global Platform for Sustainable Natural Rubber (GPSNR) have convened the annual General Assembly, which saw the approval of a members’ (…)
Wastewater Zero: A call to action for business to raise ambition for SDG 6.3
Geneva/New Delhi, 23 September 2020: Industrial wastewater pollution is a key water risk for businesses and its operations. The cost of ‘business as usual’ far (…)