Garbage in, garbage out: systems transformation in a capitalist world
First and foremost, allow me to wish you a Happy New Year and much-continued business success in 2020.
News type: Insights from the CEO
COP25: Let’s talk about ambition
Global businesses are showing considerable climate ambition. But we need to go further and faster.
World Food Day: time to put a spotlight on the food we produce and consume, as well as business leadership for change in the next years and decades.
Today is the last World Food Day before 2020. This means it is time to put a spotlight on the food we produce and consume, as well as business leadership for change in the next years and decades.
Working together to deliver healthy people and a healthy planet
WBCSD’s President and CEO, Peter Bakker, provided a perspective for UNICEF’s 2019 edition of The State of the World’s Children (SOWC), published on 15 October 2019.
Low-carbon transition and business leadership: insights from the first TCFD Summit in Japan
Last Tuesday 8 October the first-ever TCFD Summit was held in Tokyo, convening around 300 global attendees from government, business, investors and civil society to advance discussions around corporate disclosure on climate change.
“Business needs to do what it does best: to innovate and set up action plans to get to a 1.5 degree world”
CNNMoney Switzerland interviews Peter Bakker
From purpose to action: making the transition to a flourishing society
e recent Business Roundtable Statement on the Purpose of a Corporation recognizes that companies have responsibility to a broad range of stakeholders – such as customers, employees, suppliers and the environment – on par with their responsibility to shareholders.
Helping the postal sector to become more sustainable
Peter Bakker, president and CEO of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, outlines its Vision 2050 program and how it applies to posts.
Every day is an opportunity to scale-up partnerships for healthy people and planet
And business cannot fail, with 4,000 opportunities left to achieve the UN’s SDGs
A Global Coming of Age: How the Sustainable Development Goals can help transform the world we live in
We are living in a volatile world. Socially, politically, in the environment and the economy, many people feel that the system simply isn’t working for them, even though life today is a better experience for more people than it has been at any time in history.