WBCSD and Circular IQ partner to scale up the circular economy uptake by business 

Partnership to create unique tool and support companies to identify their circular economy potential. Geneva, Amsterdam, 02 September 2019 – The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) and Circular IQ today announced their partnership agreement to co-develop an online tool in support of the Circular Transition Indicators (CTI)-framework developed by WBCSD over the past year. The framework, […]

Businesses call for deeper partnership to build a more forest positive future

Images of the dry season fires in the Brazilian Amazon have generated massive media coverage and raised social consciousness about the existential challenges we face if rainforests continue to perish. They are vital to life on earth cleaning the air, circulating freshwater, storing carbon and providing livelihoods for more than a billion people. The latest […]

SiMPlify wins a P4G Award

WBCSD’s Sustainable Urban Mobility project, SiMPlify, has won a coveted award as part of the 2019 State-of-the-Art Partnerships, recently announced in Washington DC by P4G, the Partnering for Green Growth and the Global Goals initiative. SiMPlify won the category of SDG11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, for the work it has done in the City of […]

Alliance to End Plastic Waste appoints Jacob Duer as President and CEO

Former UN Leader Will Focus New Not-for-Profit on Developing, Accelerating, and Deploying Solutions to Eliminate Plastic Waste in the Environment WASHINGTON, D.C., 22 August 2019 – The Alliance to End Plastic Waste today announced that Jacob Duer will serve as the inaugural President and CEO of the newly formed not-for-profit, effective  October.  Duer joins the AEPW from […]

Can sustainable business really save the world?

Time is running out to decarbonise the world’s economies. Can the business world respond in time? Eco-Business asks the two leaders of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, Peter Bakker and Olam boss Sunny Verghese, if sustainable capitalism can avert planetary disaster. This article was originally published by Eco-Business and republished with their kind agreement. The origins […]

Novartis engages its Indian partners in developing an integrated energy strategy

Delhi, 20 August 2019: Novartis is pioneering a new approach to how it procures and uses energy. Recognizing that Novartis is part of a broader energy system, and that this energy system is changing rapidly, they are working with their energy and technology providers and supply chain partners, to develop an integrated energy strategy which takes […]

WBCSD and WEF to scale up impact on pressing sustainable development issues

MoU signed between WBCSD’s Peter Bakker and WEF’s Klaus Schwab and Dominic Waughray Geneva, 20 August 2019: The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) and the World Economic Forum (WEF) have today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to collectively mobilize action on urgent issues related to climate change, biodiversity, food systems, circular economy (including […]

Signing of memorandum of understanding (MOU) between IRSG and GPSNR

Singapore, 6 August 2019: (A GPSNR media release) The International Rubber Study Group (IRSG) and the Global Platform for Sustainable Natural Rubber (GPSNR) have agreed to build cooperation by signing a memorandum of understanding (MoU). The MoU will have the aim of consolidating, developing and detailing the cooperation between the two organizations. It will also contribute […]

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