Francisco Ruiz-Tagle, CEO of CMPC, launches WBCSD’s Forest Sector SDG Roadmap on behalf of leading forest companies at the High-Level Political Forum in New York. New York, Geneva, 17 July 2019: Eleven leading member companies from the Forest Solutions Group (FSG) of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) have issued a Forest Sector SDG Roadmap today. Its aim […]
Today, through collaboration with WBCSD, eleven leading companies across chemical and electric utility sectors provide an in-depth look at climate-related financial disclosure in two landmark reports.
New Delhi, 11 July 2019: The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), together with BluSmart, today announced an all-electric ride hailing demonstration service in Delhi. Beginning in June 2019 at key locations around Delhi, the app-based ride-hailing service aims to demonstrate the practicality and efficiency of switching mass transit users from vehicles with internal combustion […]
New global coalition calls for action to reverse nature loss and restore natural systems on which economies, wellbeing and prosperity depend. Dalian, China, 2 July 2019: Today, at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting of New Champions in China, and the Trondheim Biodiversity Conferences in Norway, a diverse group of influential international organizations has announced […]
The CEO Guide to Human Rights was launched today and brings to life the business drivers for action and the tangible steps CEOs can take to ensure their companies go beyond compliance and drive transformative change in people’s lives. Geneva, 19 June 2019 – In the newest CEO Guide of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development […]
Geneva, 6 June 2019: The six members of WBCSD’s Soft Commodities Forum (SCF) – Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), Bunge, Cargill, COFCO International, Glencore Agriculture and Louis Dreyfus Company (LDC) – have issued public reporting on soy sourced from Brazil’s Cerrado biome. The reports follow the SCF members’ commitment to a common reporting framework last February, supporting […]
Geneva, Tuesday 28 May 2019: Campbell Global has joined nearly 200 forward-thinking companies as the newest member of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD). Campbell Global is a global investment manager focused on timberland. With over three decades of experience in sustainable timberland management and value creation, Campbell Global combines ingenuity, data-supported decision making, […]
WBCSD’s Forest Solutions Group (FSG) is the global platform for the forest sector value chain. Building and sharing business solutions to lead sustainable development in the forest products sector. FSG’s mission is to advance the bio-economy and a thriving forest sector that sustains healthy productive forests & people’s well-being. A USD $44.3 billion corporation, the […]
Prague, 16 May 2019: The Czech Business Council for Sustainable Development, WBCSD’s Global Network partner in the Czech Republic, hosted a conference on the latest sustainability trends, risks and possible solutions. The conference was hosted at EYs office in central Prague, and 25 participants from Czech businesses attended. The conference included presentations from Alice Machova, […]
“Walk into the board room of a typical Fortune Global 500 company today and the talk will be about today’s challenges. In an environment that rewards short-term gains, immediate concerns understandably dominate management’s time and attention. Many companies with relatively long business horizons are still effectively looking at their watches rather than their calendars. So […]