Business is the essential implementation partner for the Paris Agreement
As the world’s most powerful economic engine – with a strong presence across borders and within nation states – the power, cooperation and influence of (…)
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Rabobank and UN Environment announce new billion-dollar partnership to kickstart climate smart agriculture
Rabobank and UN Environment announced today the creation of a new one-billion-dollar facility to finance sustainable agriculture using a combination of public and private funding.
Private sector food producers line up behind first ever global initiative to cut food losses
New York, 20 September: A global initiative committing major international food producers to tough new targets to reduce food loss was announced today during the United (…)
Becoming water-smart: Newly released report delves into scalable water and agriculture solutions in India
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, (…)
WBCSD Members study Jain Irrigation’s innovative and practical solutions for Water-Smart Agriculture
Jalgaon, 3 May 2017: Last month, Jain Irrigation hosted a group of WBCSD member companies for a two-day visit of company’s facilities in Jalgaon, in Maharashtra, (…)
Sustainable Chocolate: Barry Callebaut joins WBCSD
Barry Callebaut has today joined almost 200 forward-thinking companies as the newest member of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) Geneva, 2 May (…)
Prioritizing the ingredients for sustainability: ADM joins WBCSD
Geneva, 6 April 2017: Today, Archer Daniels Midland Company (NYSE: ADM) joins 200 forward-thinking companies as the newest member of the World Business Council for Sustainable (…)
New guide shows how social impact can be measured in the forest sector
Members of WBCSD’s Forest Solutions Group (FSG) launch the first sector guide to the Social Capital Protocol The guide aims to help sustainability practitioners measure (…)
Connecting landscapes with ecological corridors will benefit ‘people, nature and business’, details new WBCSD and Syngenta report
Geneva, 27 March 2017: The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) today released a call-to-action report on landscape connectivity, in collaboration with Syngenta and supported by (…)
New Research Finds Companies Saved $14 for Every $1 Invested in Reducing Food Waste
Report from Champions 12.3 shows that companies, consumers and governments can save billions of dollars and millions of tons of food by acting to cut (…)