While the world’s largest companies are becoming more valuable, powerful and concentrated, the number of people living in extreme poverty could increase to over one billion by 2030.
WBCSD and nine leading companies operating in the food and agriculture value chain have released a new paper that outlines four key areas for scaling business action to increase food affordability.
Inequality in income, wealth and well-being has been increasing for the past 40 years. But the economic disruption caused by the continuing effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, combined with the war in Europe, adds new urgency to the challenge.
Today, through collaboration with PwC UK, the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) releases a new report helping companies, financial institutions and policy makers understand some of the assumptions and methodologies that feed into climate transition scenarios and models.
At Arcadis, our ‘Maximizing Impact’ strategy rests on two pillars: taking care of people and our planet. Foundational to focusing on people is treating them with dignity and respect, something on which Arcadis has based its purpose—”improving quality of life”— and which we continue to pursue with vigor, aligning our approach closely with the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights.
Bühler AG and CN & Partners AG today announce their joint venture to create Circular Food Solutions Switzerland AG, a new company which will produce a Swiss meat alternative based on upcycled spent grain from Switzerland.
WBCSD and WorldGBC, launches ConcreteZero, a new initiative with a goal of sourcing 100% net zero concrete by 2050.
Growing awareness and collaboration for a nature-positive world has contributed to building business confidence to halt and reverse nature loss, delivering tools and guidance to help on implementation and action within operations and across value chains.
The next milestone of The Cultured Hub located in The Valley in Kemptthal near Zurich is complete.
he ZEN 2050 study by EpE member companies – Entreprises pour l’Environnement (EpE) is WBCSD’s French partner – concluded that France could achieve carbon neutrality by 2050, provided all stakeholders (corporate, government, citizen-consumers, etc.) rallied strongly to achieve an unprecedented transformation of our lifestyles and consumption patterns. The equally important goal of preserving biodiversity further reinforces the need for transformation.