21 August 2017, London/Geneva: Every year, US$4 billion in working days is lost because of poor sanitation. To date, 1.35 billion people work in small and (…)
Mumbai, 9 August 2017: The World Business Council for Sustainable Development’s (WBCSD) newest report, Co-optimizing solutions in water and agriculture: Lessons from India on water security, (…)
The WBCSD’s Peter White argues that cities need to be strategic and take a holistic public-private approach to tackling air pollution and rising greenhouse gas emissions
This week below50 partnered with the Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO) to advance the case for below50 fuels during the BIO World Congress on Industrial Biotechnology (#BIOWC17) in Montreal, Canada, where industry leaders, government officials and academic researchers met to share the latest advances across the spectrum of industrial biotechnology including renewable chemicals, synthetic biology, food ingredients and advanced biofuels.
Thomas Andro started his career with Solvay in 2007. After 10 years in Finance, he joined the Sustainable Development Function to lead Business, Investors and Digital (…)
From 10 – 19 July the annual High-Level Political Forum (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.
Joe Monfort is a Sustainability Manager at DuPont where he works on corporate sustainability strategy, stakeholder engagement, and communications. From 2012 to 2015, he worked (…)
Today, the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) published 8 Business Cases for the Circular Economy, illustrating how companies can accelerate growth, enhance competitiveness and mitigate risk (…)
Instead of watching kids in the school yard, I see fully-grown professionals in meetings using clever words and strategies to basically say “my approach is better than yours” or “you should partner with us, not them.”
Population growth, urbanization and increasing affluence are driving natural resource consumption beyond the earth’s ability to replenish.