Total adopts a new climate ambition to get to net zero by 2050
Supporting the EU’s carbon neutrality target, Total commits to become a net zero emission company for all its European businesses by 2050.
Category: WBCSD News & Insights
2020: a different kind of “super year”
Focusing business’ leadership and action as a catalyst for positive and lasting change
Business leadership for social and economic continuity in the new COVID reality
The following is an opinion piece by Dr David Nabarro in his role of Special Envoy to the World Health Organization (WHO) on COVID-19 and Founder and Principal of 4SD, and Peter Bakker representing the global business leadership voice as WBCSD’s President and CEO.
Earth Day 2020 – a moment to pair climate action with our COVID recovery
Today’s 50th Earth Day has given us a lot to think about.
Safely back to work: CEOs of Randstad, Adecco and Manpower form HR industry alliance
Unparalleled collaboration is needed to prepare for the new normal in the workplace in the wake of COVID-19.
“We’re going to get worse shocks than COVID-19”: Peter Bakker on the impact of this crisis on our current system and lessons for the future
WBCSD President & CEO Peter Bakker shares his thoughts on the COVID-19 crisis in an episode of CrisisCast, a Dutch podcast with Paul van Liempt for DuurzaamBedrijfsleven.
Green Recovery Alliance: reboot and reboost our economies for a sustainable future
WBCSD joined the Call to Action of the Green Recovery Alliance calling for an EU-wide green recovery strategy focused on sustainability after COVID-19. This Call to Action, signed by WBCSD President & CEO Peter Bakker and María Mendiluce, Interim CEO We Mean Business & WBCSD Managing Director Climate & Energy, originally appeared online on 14 April 2020. The coronavirus […]
Shell’s ambition to be a net-zero emissions energy business
In tackling climate change, the focus is increasingly on limiting the global temperature rise to 1.5° Celsius. Shell supports this ambition.
Call to Action for world leaders: preventing a global food security crisis while combating COVID-19
This Call to Action, signed by WBCSD President & CEO Peter Bakker and Managing Director Food & Nature Diane Holdorf, was originally published on 9 April 2020 by the Food and Land Use Coalition. The COVID-19 virus has unleashed a global health pandemic and economic crisis, posing unprecedented challenges for food systems around the world. Food supplies could […]
Key players across food, agriculture and forest products sectors share TCFD implementation experience
Geneva, 9 April 2020: Today, leading food, agriculture and forest products companies, through collaboration with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), provide an in-depth look at climate-related disclosure in the new report Disclosure in a time of system transformation: TCFD disclosure for food, agriculture and forest products companies. As part of the Task Force […]