As more and more boardrooms have sustainability at the top of their to do lists, Peter Bakker, President and CEO of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), warns that if tackling inequality is not a key part of your plans, your sustainability efforts will fail, and your business will suffer.
Geneva, 8 June – ComfortDelGro Corporation, one of the world’s largest land transport companies with a total fleet size of about 35,000 buses, taxis and rental vehicles, has joined the Mobility Decarbonization project of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD). The Group, which was formed in 2003 through a merger of Singapore-based companies Comfort Group and DelGro Corporation, […]
Dear President Von der Leyen, Business warmly welcomes the Commission’s ambitions to propose legally binding targets for nature restoration and urges the publication of these in June 2022 with no further delay. Nature restoration targets are key to achieving the broader objectives set out in the EU Green Deal and its Strategy to reverse biodiversity […]
At Stockholm +50, there is a request from business and policy leaders to enhance collaboration between the public and private sector to explore the potential for a new global corporate accountability and transparency mechanism. This will enable comparable and transparent information about the contribution business is making on climate, nature, pollution and circularity action targets, […]
For the first time in two and a half years, the World Economic Forum was able to gather its Annual Meeting in Davos again.
WBCSD and UNICEF have launched a podcast on the critical role of responsible business conduct in the fight against child labor.
A new IBM Institute for Business Value study* revealed that sustainability is rising higher on corporate agendas, and CEOs recognize sustainability as a business imperative and growth driver.
A new survey reveals what private sector organizations are currently spending on measuring and managing key climate change data and disclosure activities.
When the COVID-19 pandemic struck in 2020 and the world “stopped” for a moment, the transport sector experienced some of the most dramatic effects. Global road transport activity was cut in half, and public transit ridership dropped by 50 to 90% in some major metropolitan areas.
Geneva, 24 May 2022: Today, the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) is pleased to announce that it will support the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) as one of four piloting program partners to inform the design and development of the TNFD’s recommendations. The TNFD framework, now in prototype format and under development, will enable corporates […]