WBCSD supports UNICEF in recognizing the climate crisis as a child’s rights crisis
WBCSD signs business statement on children and climate change highlighting the role of business in helping to put young people at the heart of climate action
Category: WBCSD News & Insights
Leading businesses propose nine actions to accelerate the deployment of charging infrastructure and fulfill the needs of growing EV market
At COP26, WBCSD launched a new report outlining the cross-sectoral actions needed to accelerate the deployment of efficient electric vehicle fleets and sustainable charging infrastructure.
WBCSD and City of Glasgow unveil new Mobility Pact at COP26
The World Business Council for Sustainable Development and the City of Glasgow to develop new Corporate Mobility Pact that will coordinate business efforts in making mobility more sustainable.
We must act now to decarbonize industrial heat power sources
By Rutger van der Zanden, Manager of Energy Transformation at World Business Council for Sustainable Development and James Goudreau, Head of Environmental Sustainability External Engagement, Novartis
28 companies pledge to accelerate use of decarbonized hydrogen at COP26
The pledges equate to nearly one quarter of the decarbonization potential for hydrogen by 2030, as estimated by the Hydrogen Council
Partnership for Carbon Transparency publishes new guidance to enhance consistency of emissions data
Today, on the Industry Day at the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow, UK, the Partnership for Carbon Transparency launched the Pathfinder Framework, a guidance for the calculation and exchange of product-level carbon emissions data across value chains. The Framework was developed jointly by 35 stakeholders from industry and the broader decarbonization ecosystem, harnessing WBCSD’s role as co-convenor of the Greenhouse Gas Protocol.
Leading banking institutions join forces in new initiative to support decarbonization of the agriculture sector
Rabobank, Santander, Wells Fargo, and Barclays are among top banks working together to support their food, agriculture and land use sector clients in the transition to net-zero.
Arup commits to whole lifecycle carbon assessments for all buildings work and withdrawal from fossil fuels from next year
Arup has committed to undertaking whole lifecycle carbon assessments for all its buildings projects – new and retrofit – from next year.
The NCS Investment Accelerator invites corporates to slash 1Gt emissions annually
Today, five corporate giants, made an announcement to join forces towards creating an investment accelerator aggregating corporate demand for 1 Gigaton of CO2e emissions from NCS reductions and removals per year by 2025.
Working forests and their products are part of the solution to net-zero, new report reveals
WBCSD and forest companies call on policymakers, investors and forest product customers to consider working forests and their products as part of the solution to net zero.