Stepping up business action to 1.5°C
Geneva, 16 September 2019 – The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) has today joined other organizations to endorse the ‘Business Ambition for 1.5°C’ initiative (…)
Category: WBCSD News & Insights
From purpose to action: making the transition to a flourishing society
e recent Business Roundtable Statement on the Purpose of a Corporation recognizes that companies have responsibility to a broad range of stakeholders – such as customers, employees, suppliers and the environment – on par with their responsibility to shareholders.
Key takeaways: CEO roundtable – Food Systems Transformation in India
India is the second largest food producer in the world and has moved from dependence on grain imports into a net exporter of food. However, (…)
WBCSD India Day 2019
Home to one-sixth of the world’s population, India is transitioning fast. By 2030, the middle class is expected to grow to be the largest in the world representing an estimated USD$ 6 trillion growth opportunity for businesses.
What science means for business
A Food and Nature example
WBCSD and Circular IQ partner to scale up the circular economy uptake by business
Partnership to create unique tool and support companies to identify their circular economy potential. Geneva, Amsterdam, 02 September 2019 – The World Business Council for Sustainable (…)
Taking collective action further for transforming freshwater use
The World Water Week in Stockholm (25-30 August) is a great annual bellwether for the water sector: trending topics, pioneering organizations and a sense of where the sector is heading.
Businesses call for deeper partnership to build a more forest positive future
Images of the dry season fires in the Brazilian Amazon have generated massive media coverage and raised social consciousness about the existential challenges we face (…)
SiMPlify wins a P4G Award
WBCSD’s Sustainable Urban Mobility project, SiMPlify, has won a coveted award as part of the 2019 State-of-the-Art Partnerships, recently announced in Washington DC by P4G, (…)
Asian business leadership in the transition to a sustainable world
Geneva, 27 August 2019: Earlier this month, Peter Bakker, President and CEO of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), embarked on a series of (…)