Category: WBCSD News & Insights

Food Action Alliance selects the Farmer First Clusters as a flagship initiative

Leia em português – Food Action Alliance seleciona Produtores em Foco como uma iniciativa de destaque The Food Action Alliance, a multi-stakeholder platform hosted by the World Economic Forum with 35 partner institutions, has identified the Soft Commodities Forum’s Farmer First Clusters as one of its flagship initiatives for advancing national food systems strategies. The Farmer First Clusters joins a portfolio […]

Indirect supplier engagements in the global push for traceable deforestation- and conversion-free product

Traceability of member companies’ soy supply chains to the farm level is a key priority to assure deforestation- and conversion-free (DCF) soy production in the Cerrado and beyond. Leia em português – Engajamento de fornecedores indiretos quanto à pressão global por produtos rastreáveis livres de desmatamento e conversão What progress has the SCF made toward achieving traceability? […]

Lindsey Larson, World Bank, weighs in on land use

Private Sector Lead for the Food Systems, Land Use and Restoration (FOLUR) Impact Program at the World Bank, Lindsey Larson, outlines financing avenues to protect nature and improve the livelihoods of land users. Leia em português – Lucie Smith entrevista Lindsey Larson, do Banco Mundial  Q: What does the World Bank see as its role in supporting landscape […]

Soft Commodities Forum and Consumer Goods Forum Forest Positive Coalition align on landscape metrics

Leia em português – SCF e Forest Positive Coalition do Consumer Goods Forum (CGF) alinham métricas de paisagem At the Soft Commodities Forum, we believe that achieving meaningful landscape-level transformation and acquiring the financing to get there require collaboration across food and agriculture value chains for standardized metrics. Collaboration as an entire industry enables increased impact by […]

The Farmer First Clusters partners with the Forest Investor Club for scalability

Leia em português – Parceria do Produtores em Foco com o Forest Investor Club para escalabilidade  The SCF is thrilled to announce a partnership with the Forest Investor Club in our journey toward implementing the landscape transformation goals of the Agriculture Sector Roadmap to 1.5°C. Clear business incentives to invest in forest-positive land use, such as this partnership, are imperative […]

WBCSD welcomes ISSB Standards and launches a Preparer Forum for Sustainability Disclosure

WBCSD congratulates the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) on the publication today of the IFRS S1 General Requirements for Disclosure of Sustainability-related Financial Information and IFRS S2 Climate-related Disclosures.

Ireland’s largest businesses are making steady progress on meeting net zero targets for greenhouse gas emissions despite global upheaval and uncertainties

Dublin, 23 June 2022: Business in the Community Ireland (BITCI), WBCSD’s global partner in Ireland, in partnership with PwC prepared a new report showing that progress is being achieved by companies setting Science-Based Targets as part of a drive to move to net zero. Four years ago, BITCI launched its Low Carbon Pledge, with 47 companies signed up. […]