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 (…)
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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 (…)
Insider perspective: RE-Source 2019
Last week delegates from 49 countries gathered in Amsterdam for RE-Source 2019, the world’s largest event on corporate renewable sourcing.
First-ever TCFD Summit to accelerate progress on climate-related financial disclosures
Tokyo, 8 October 2019: At the invitation of the Prime Minister of Japan and the Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), the World Business (…)
Key WBCSD takeaways from the UN General Assembly Week 2019
Last week leaders from a broad range of sectors and geographies gathered in New York around the opening of the 74th session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA).
“Business needs to do what it does best: to innovate and set up action plans to get to a 1.5 degree world”
CNNMoney Switzerland interviews Peter Bakker
Building a smallholders-inclusive platform for sustainable natural rubber
The Global Platform for Sustainable Natural Rubber (GPSNR) is an international, multi-stakeholder, voluntary membership organization, with a mission to lead improvements in the socioeconomic and environmental performance (…)
Nineteen leading companies join forces to step up alternative farming practices and protect biodiversity, for the benefit of planet and people
“One Planet Business for Biodiversity” (OP2B) – a business-led, agriculture-centric coalition – was launched today at UN Climate Action Summit in New York 23 September (…)
Natural Climate Solutions will play vital role in tackling climate change emphasizes new report
WBCSD with the Nature4Climate coalition launched the report Natural Climate Solutions: the Business Perspective. The report builds consensus on how to credibly invest in Natural Climate (…)