Building an Inclusive Procurement Strategy: Best Practices for Advancing Nutrition through Food Service Procurement 

Transforming food systems to support both human and planetary health requires action across every stage of the value chain. Food service procurement plays a pivotal role in shaping food environments – offering a major opportunity to improve nutrition while aligning with sustainability goals. Businesses that integrate nutrition into their procurement strategies can help bridge the […]

Achieving net-zero buildings

The building sector is responsible for 37% of energy-related carbon emissions, making the transition to net-zero buildings a crucial response to climate change. To address this urgent need, the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), in collaboration with Arup and leading property sector practitioners, presents “Achieving net-zero buildings: An action plan for market transformation“.  Building […]

Accelerating Food and Nutrition Security through Food Fortification: A private sector playbook 

Food fuels our bodies and connects us to culture, livelihoods, and the environment. However, today’s food systems contribute to pressing global challenges, including climate change, biodiversity loss, and rising diet-related diseases. Humanity’s food consumption drives one-third of global greenhouse gas emissions and three-quarters of biodiversity loss, while unhealthy diets are a leading cause of non-communicable […]

Renewable industrial heat navigator brief: Thermal energy storage 

Navigate the evolving energy landscape with WBCSD’s latest navigator brief focusing on novel thermal energy storage (TES) solutions capable of decarbonizing high-temperature heat (already up to 600°C). This brief is part of a series of navigator briefs designed to support industrial companies in assessing renewable heat solutions and providing insights for informed investment decisions that […]

Sowing change: EU Policy Opportunities to Scale Regenerative Agriculture

OP2B, Boston Consulting Group (BCG), and Carlsberg Group conducted a policy analysis resulting in a clear roadmap to overcoming barriers and accelerating the transition to regenerative agriculture across the EU through six actionable opportunities for EU policymakers. By working together, businesses, policymakers, and farmers can create a resilient food system that benefits people, the planet, […]

São Paulo Roundtable on Financing Deforestation- and Conversion-free Soy Production

07 November 2024, value chain actors representing soy supply chain companies (including input companies, agribusinesses, manufacturers, retailers and consumer goods companies), financial institutions and expert NGOs convened at a roundtable in Sao Paulo. During this session, participants discussed a multi-stakeholder financial strategy for deforestation- and conversion-free DCF soy production in the Brazilian Cerrado.   This 2-page […]

Circularity Data Exchange: Landscape analysis and way forward 

The transition to a circular economy demands robust mechanisms for managing and exchanging product-level data. The newly released “Enhancing the Exchange of Product Circularity Data – Recommendations White Paper”, developed by WBCSD in collaboration with KPMG and Circularise, explores the landscape of circularity data practices, challenges, and opportunities to create consistent, credible, and comparable data […]

Soft Commodities Forum Progress Report, December 2024

The Soft Commodities Forum (SCF) enables collaboration between six leading agribusinesses to identify solutions to eliminate deforestation and conversion in soy landscapes in the Brazilian Cerrado, operating alongside an advisory group that includes the Accountability Framework Initiative, the Brazilian Rural Society, GIZ Brazil, SustainCERT and the Tropical Forest Alliance. The Cerrado is one of Earth’s […]