Global leading businesses, united in WBCSD, vote for the adoption of new membership criteria to accelerate the transformation to a sustainable world in the decade ahead. Geneva, 26 October 2020: The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), together with its more than 200 global leading member companies, is raising the bar of business commitment to […]
How circular is my company? How do we set targets for improvement? And how do we monitor improvements resulting from our circular activities? These are key questions that the CTI, shaped by 26 WBCSD member companies and launched in January 2020, help companies to answer. The CTI report has now been translated into Japanese, with a view […]
The Good Food For All Narrative is an initiative developed by the SDG2 Advocacy Hub with partners across civil society, UN Agencies and the private sector to reframe how we talk about Sustainable Development Goal 2 (SDG2), to complement SDG2’s current Zero Hunger frame. Good Food For All aims to create a fresh new way of speaking about the […]
With commitments to net-zero emissions, many governments are making plans to achieve their targets. The city of Turku in Finland is going a step further by using local circular economy initiatives to tackle consumption-based emissions in the city. “How we make and use products and how we produce food generates almost half of the emissions […]
U.S. Farmers & Ranchers in Action (USFRA) , together with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) published a new Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Roadmap report to assess the opportunities for U.S. agriculture to continue driving a resilient and sustainable agricultural system while resiliently confronting new crises along the way. Established in 2015, the SDGs provide a […]
The global onset of COVID-19 has drastically affected all of us — through the fabric of our daily lives, and also through its reverberations in economic systems on local and global scales. Green, innovative, agile and scalable solutions are being demanded of our governments, our employers and our societies. As the last decade has proven, […]
Singapore, 23 September 2020: Members of the Global Platform for Sustainable Natural Rubber (GPSNR) have convened the annual General Assembly, which saw the approval of a members’ sustainability policy framework and the creation of a new membership category for smallholder producers of natural rubber. The newly approved policy framework will help GPSNR member companies, who account for […]
Geneva/New Delhi, 23 September 2020: Industrial wastewater pollution is a key water risk for businesses and its operations. The cost of ‘business as usual’ far outweighs the cost of action to fix the problems linked to industrial wastewater pollution and misses opportunities for business to make progress on biodiversity, climate change and water security to […]
Geneva, 21 September 2020: On the same day as the UN General Assembly adopted its 75th Declaration that recognizes the urgent need for Member States to act to protect our planet and build back better, more than 560 companies with combined revenue of USD $4 trillion – including WBCSD members, EDF, Firmenich, Hitachi, IKEA, Microsoft, Natura […]
Singapore, 14 September 2020: The Global Platform for Sustainable Natural Rubber (GPSNR) will convene its 2nd General Assembly virtually on 23 September 2020. The event will bring together more than 80 members of the Platform, representing various sectors of the natural rubber industry, including natural rubber processors and traders, tire manufacturers, and car manufacturers, as well […]