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Category: WBCSD News & Insights

How the COVID-19 crisis can accelerate sustainable urban mobility

On a personal basis, my biggest event of 2020 should have been my long-planned orthopedic surgery.

Posted in WBCSD News & InsightsTagged Cities and Mobility, Corporate Mobility Pact, Data Sharing Principles, Digitalization and Data in Urban Mobility, Emobility, Mobility Decarbonization, New Mobility and MaaS, Policy to Enable Data Sharing, REmobility, SiMPlify, Transforming Urban Mobility, Viable and Sustainable Charging Infrastructure, Zero-Emission Vehicle Emerging Markets Initiative

How sustainability issues are rapidly changing the business landscape

Long gone are the days when sustainability was a nice-to-have, says Peter Bakker who believes that companies have the capacity to heal the world but is unsure whether they will react quickly enough.

Posted in WBCSD News & InsightsTagged Insights from the CEO

Sustainability experts discuss human rights in agriculture value chains

Singapore, 23 June: Agribusinesses have a responsibility to ensure that human rights are respected within their operations and across their supply chains. Many of these (…)

Posted in WBCSD News & InsightsTagged Agriculture and Food, Equitable Livelihoods, Food & Nature, Global Agribusiness Alliance, Human Rights

A recipe to reduce food loss and waste

Geneva, 23 June 2020: Reducing food loss and waste is one of the most important levers to transform our food system to achieve our healthy people healthy (…)

Posted in WBCSD News & InsightsTagged Agriculture and Food, Food & Nature, Global Agribusiness Alliance, Healthy & Sustainable Diets

WBCSD to take part in the World Circular Economy Forum this September

Geneva, 29 June: As the world’s attention focuses on the need for a sustainable recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, the circular economy represents a critical (…)

Posted in WBCSD News & InsightsTagged Circular Economy, Factor 10

Building and sustaining trust in the food and beverage industry

COVID-19 has shaken societies and strained many industries to breaking point.

Posted in WBCSD News & Insights

Safeguarding worker health and ensuring business continuity in agriculture value chains

As part of its COVID-19 Response Program, WBCSD’s Vital Supply Chains Project leads collective business action to mitigate food risks from COVID-19.

Posted in WBCSD News & InsightsTagged Food And Land Use, Global Agribusiness Alliance, Response Program, Response Project - Vital Supply Chains

Rethink and restart for a new tomorrow: PwC’s Chairman Bob Moritz & Peter Bakker share insights

Published: 17 Jun 2020
Author: Peter Bakker
Type: Insight

PwC Chairman Bob Moritz and WBCSD President and CEO Peter Bakker discussed in detail the role of businesses, the need for change in our economies and the role of good leadership in moving toward a better normal – not just a new normal.

Posted in WBCSD News & InsightsTagged Insights from the CEO

Natura &Co unveils its Commitment to Life for 2030

The group will achieve net-zero carbon emissions 20 years ahead of the UN Commitment, protect the Amazon, promote inclusion and equality and shift business towards circularity and regeneration

Posted in WBCSD News & Insights

“ESG ratings… it’s a bit of a zoo”

Podcast on ESG ratings: Peter Bakker, WBCSD’s President and CEO, talks with Euromoney

Posted in WBCSD News & InsightsTagged Aligning Retirement Assets, Assess and Manage Performance, Assurance and Internal Controls, Corporate Performance & Accountability (CP&A), Enterprise Risk Management, Governance and Internal Oversight, Redefining Value, Redesigning capital market engagement, Reporting Matters, Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) Response and Development, The Reporting Exchange

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