Category: WBCSD News & Insights

Nineteen leading companies join forces to step up alternative farming practices and protect biodiversity, for the benefit of planet and people

 “One Planet Business for Biodiversity” (OP2B) – a business-led, agriculture-centric coalition – was launched today at UN Climate Action Summit in New York 23 September 2019, New York, NY: Today, nineteen forward-thinking, agriculture-centric companies, together with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), launched a new initiative to protect and restore biodiversity within their supply […]

Natural Climate Solutions will play vital role in tackling climate change emphasizes new report

WBCSD with the Nature4Climate coalition launched the report Natural Climate Solutions: the Business Perspective. The report builds consensus on how to credibly invest in Natural Climate Solutions as part of a climate action strategy and what are the barriers to investment, which WBCSD will now work to address. New York, 23 September:  Yesterday, the World Business […]

Halcyon kicks off water stewardship action learning project at a rubber processing plant in Indonesia

The Global Agribusiness Alliance (GAA), with its members Halcyon Agri, HeveaConnect and the Alliance for Water Stewardship Asia-Pacific (AWS A-P) are working together to learn how to increase performance related to water in rubber processing using the AWS Standard for assessing site and catchment specific risks and opportunities at Halcyon’s PT Hok Tong factory in Jambi, Indonesia. […]

New report highlights practical steps that businesses can take to enhance climate resilience

Geneva, 18 September 2019: Today, the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) launched a new report entitled Business Climate Resilience – thriving through the transformation. The report provides a guide for business to build resilience by developing enhanced adaptive capacity to the impacts of climate change, to better manage associated risks and seize opportunities. The report highlights […]

Stepping up business action to 1.5°C

Geneva, 16 September 2019 – The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) has today joined other organizations to endorse the ‘Business Ambition for 1.5°C’ initiative calling on companies to take 1.5°C-aligned climate action and commit to the 1.5 Pledge. Ahead of next week’s UN Climate Action Summit in New York City, WBCSD is calling on companies […]

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.

Key takeaways: CEO roundtable – Food Systems Transformation in India

India is the second largest food producer in the world and has moved from dependence on grain imports into a net exporter of food. However, India faces low average agricultural productivity at the national level and high variation regionally.  The increasing uncertainty of monsoons and increasing rainfall deficiency due to climate change will severely affect […]

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