Tire Industry Project appoints new Assurance Group to guide scientific work
Geneva, 29 October 2019: The Tire Industry Project (TIP) has appointed new members to its Assurance Group, a team of independent scientists that guides the scientific (…)
Category: WBCSD News & Insights
Measuring and monitoring food waste for healthy people and a healthy planet
Over 1bn tonnes of food is wasted or lost every year but many countries and companies do not know where or why this is taking place.
World Food Day: time to put a spotlight on the food we produce and consume, as well as business leadership for change in the next years and decades.
Today is the last World Food Day before 2020. This means it is time to put a spotlight on the food we produce and consume, as well as business leadership for change in the next years and decades.
The Recycling Partnership and The PepsiCo Foundation raise $25 Million for U.S. recycling – reaching funding goal one year into five-year challenge
To date, nearly 115,000 curbside carts are in the process of being distributed to communities across the U.S. as a result of this challenge.
The first-ever Corporate Mobility Pact – catalyzing corporate action to transform mobility
Lisbon, Tuesday 15 October 2019: Today, the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) joined forces with the City of Lisbon and leading companies, to launch (…)
Working together to deliver healthy people and a healthy planet
WBCSD’s President and CEO, Peter Bakker, provided a perspective for UNICEF’s 2019 edition of The State of the World’s Children (SOWC), published on 15 October 2019.
Reporting matters 2019: regulators and standard setters urged to simplify and align the corporate reporting landscape
Geneva/Lisbon/London 14 October 2019: Today, the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) calls on regulators and standard setters to simplify and align the corporate (…)
The role of business in accelerating systems transformation
An update on the World Business Council for Sustainable Development’s refresh of its landmark Vision 2050 Geneva, 10 October 2019: Earlier this year, the World Business (…)
Low-carbon transition and business leadership: insights from the first TCFD Summit in Japan
Last Tuesday 8 October the first-ever TCFD Summit was held in Tokyo, convening around 300 global attendees from government, business, investors and civil society to advance discussions around corporate disclosure on climate change.
Peter Bakker presents Prime Minister of Japan with message of intent emerging from three key summits focusing on the transition to a low-carbon society
Tokyo, 9 October 2019: At a specially convened Green Innovation Summit in Tokyo today, Peter Bakker, President and CEO of the World Business Council for Sustainable (…)