Key WBCSD takeaways from the UN General Assembly Week 2019
Last week leaders from a broad range of sectors and geographies gathered in New York around the opening of the 74th session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA).
Category: WBCSD News & Insights
“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
Building a smallholders-inclusive platform for sustainable natural rubber
The Global Platform for Sustainable Natural Rubber (GPSNR) is an international, multi-stakeholder, voluntary membership organization, with a mission to lead improvements in the socioeconomic and environmental performance (…)
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 (…)
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 (…)
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 (…)
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 (…)
Business climate resilience – thriving through the transformation
The climate emergency is a present-day reality, and we see its effects every day.
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 (…)
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.