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Category: WBCSD News & Insights

Alliance to End Plastic Waste appoints Jacob Duer as President and CEO

Former UN Leader Will Focus New Not-for-Profit on Developing, Accelerating, and Deploying Solutions to Eliminate Plastic Waste in the Environment WASHINGTON, D.C., 22 August 2019 (…)

Posted in WBCSD News & InsightsTagged Circular Economy, Factor 10, The Alliance to End Plastic Waste

Can sustainable business really save the world?

Time is running out to decarbonise the world’s economies. Can the business world respond in time? Eco-Business asks the two leaders of the World Business (…)

Posted in WBCSD News & InsightsTagged Circular Economy, Cities and Mobility, Climate & Energy, Corporate Performance & Accountability (CP&A), Finance for Social Impact, Food & Nature, Nature Action, People, Redefining Value, Scaling Positive Agriculture, Sustainable Development Goals

Novartis engages its Indian partners in developing an integrated energy strategy

Delhi, 20 August 2019: Novartis is pioneering a new approach to how it procures and uses energy. Recognizing that Novartis is part of a broader energy (…)

Posted in WBCSD News & InsightsTagged Climate & Energy, Energy, New energy solutions

WBCSD and WEF to scale up impact on pressing sustainable development issues

MoU signed between WBCSD’s Peter Bakker and WEF’s Klaus Schwab and Dominic Waughray Geneva, 20 August 2019: The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) and (…)

Posted in WBCSD News & InsightsTagged Circular Economy, Cities and Mobility, Climate & Energy, Food & Nature, Sustainable Development Goals

Helping the postal sector to become more sustainable

Peter Bakker, president and CEO of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, outlines its Vision 2050 program and how it applies to posts.

Posted in WBCSD News & InsightsTagged Agriculture and Food, Circular Economy, Cities and Mobility, Climate & Energy, Corporate Performance & Accountability (CP&A), Food & Nature, Insights from the CEO, People, Redefining Value

Signing of memorandum of understanding (MOU) between IRSG and GPSNR

Singapore, 6 August 2019: (A GPSNR media release) The International Rubber Study Group (IRSG) and the Global Platform for Sustainable Natural Rubber (GPSNR) have agreed to (…)

Posted in WBCSD News & InsightsTagged Tire Industry Project

Insider Perspective: Key takeaways from the 2019 High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development

HLPF on Sustainable Development, the UN’s central platform for follow-up and review of the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals, took place at the UN headquarters in New York City from 9 to 18 July 2019.

Posted in WBCSD News & InsightsTagged Sustainable Development Goals

The perils of complacent incrementalism

If our sustainability ambitions are grounded in our achievements, we’ll be left with nothing to measure. Brendan Edgerton, Director of Circular Economy at the World (…)

Posted in WBCSD News & Insights

Businesses getting ready for the Tokyo 2020 Nutrition for Growth (N4G) Summit

WBCSD and its FReSH members supported the successful business mobilization conference held in The Hague in preparation for the Global Nutrition for Growth (N4G) Summit to be held in Tokyo, Japan at the end of 2020.

Posted in WBCSD News & InsightsTagged Agriculture and Food, Food & Nature, Food And Land Use, FReSH, Japan

New roadmap to maximize the forest sector’s contribution to the Sustainable Development Goals

Francisco Ruiz-Tagle, CEO of CMPC, launches WBCSD’s Forest Sector SDG Roadmap on behalf of leading forest companies at the High-Level Political Forum in New York. (…)

Posted in WBCSD News & InsightsTagged Forest Solutions Group (FSG), Nature Action, North America, People, Sustainable Development Goals

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