Redesigning interaction between companies and capital markets to accelerate transformation
Insights from the 2022 Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) Summit and GGX Conference
News type: Insights from the CEO
China’s path to Inclusive, Green and Low-Carbon Development: 30 years of CCICED
Aligning ESG developments globally
Tackling inequality – an integral component to long-term business success
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.
A summary from Davos
For the first time in two and a half years, the World Economic Forum was able to gather its Annual Meeting in Davos again.
Greening China’s Belt and Road Initiative: Peter Bakker at BRI Green Innovation Conference 2021
Shenzhen, China, 16 December 2021: WBCSD President and CEO Peter Bakker, in his capacity of Convener of the Belt and Road Initiative International Green Development Coalition (BRIGC) Advisory Committee, attended the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) Green Innovation Conference 2021 and delivered opening remarks through video.
COP26: underlining that the momentum for climate, nature and equity action is NOW
COP26 has been like none other; it will be seen as an inflection point for global climate recovery, in which 1.5°C was agreed as the ceiling.
China’s CCICED Conference 2021: focus on biodiversity ahead of CBD COP15
In his capacity of Advisory Board Member of the China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development (CCICED), WBCSD President and CEO Peter Bakker, highlighted the role of businesses in halting biodiversity loss at the 2021 CCICED Annual General Meeting (AGM).
All roads lead to Rome: a Pre-Summit towards an equitable, net-zero and nature-positive food system
This article is based on the speech WBCSD President & CEO Peter Bakker gave on 26 July 2021 at the Pre-Summit of the UN Food Systems Summit, during the opening plenary “A Bold Ambition to Improve Food Systems”.
Why growing social inequalities matter to business
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?
Ecosystem collaboration for sustainable mobility at the Movin’On Summit 2021
What does the future hold for the automotive industry, and what systemic changes are needed to set urban transport worldwide on a sustainable course?