According to the 2022 World Inequality Report, the richest 10% of the global population takes 52% of global income and owns 76% of all wealth, while the poorest half of the population earns just 8.5% of global income and 2% of wealth.
Forética, the leading organization for sustainability and WBCSD’s representative in Spain, presented the report ‘Green Jobs and Fair Transition in the Future of Work’ as part of the ‘JOBS 2030 – Future of Work’ project – led by ManpowerGroup, with the collaboration of Fundación ONCE and PRISA.
As more and more boardrooms have sustainability at the top of their to do lists, Peter Bakker, President and CEO of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), warns that if tackling inequality is not a key part of your plans, your sustainability efforts will fail, and your business will suffer.
WBCSD and UNICEF have launched a podcast on the critical role of responsible business conduct in the fight against child labor.
When the COVID-19 pandemic struck in 2020 and the world “stopped” for a moment, the transport sector experienced some of the most dramatic effects. Global road transport activity was cut in half, and public transit ridership dropped by 50 to 90% in some major metropolitan areas.
The pace of technology innovation is growing ever faster, and we are starting to see wider adoption and applications for emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) and quantum computing.
Dublin, 10 May 2022: Business in the Community Ireland (BITCI), WBCSD’s global partner in Ireland inaugurated the first report into measuring and setting workforce targets for diversity and (…)
Bringing together the agendas on health and nature might just be one of our best hopes: to tackle nature loss and climate change at the same time as protecting and improving health.
New resource raises awareness and understanding of the root causes of child labor and identifies key areas for business action.
Why should growing inequalities matter to business? To what extent is inequality a systems-level risk, at the same level of climate emergency end environmental degradation?