Insider Perspective: Global Alliance for Buildings and Construction
In a time when people are asked to stay home and practice social distancing due to COVID-19, international collaboration is moving away from in-person events to online meetings.
Category: WBCSD News & Insights
Hungary: BCSDH’s virtual business breakfast and Action 2020 Forum
Budapest, 1 April 2020: BCSD Hungary (BCSDH) hosted a virtual business breakfast and its Action 2020 Forum. WBCSD’s Managing Director Food & Nature Diane Holdorf delivered a successful and thoughtful presentation, highlighting that, while right now the key factor is the survival of the supply chain, after overcoming the pandemic, it will also be necessary to address the challenge […]
What’s at the heart of Singapore’s sustainability success?
This interview with Peter Bakker was originally published on 30 March 2020 by KONE.
Can dense cities save the planet?
This interview with Peter Bakker was originally published on 30 March 2020 by KONE
Open letter to global leaders: a Healthy Planet for Healthy People
Call to action from the Planetary Emergency Partnership: emerging from the planetary emergency and partnering between people and nature This open letter, signed by WBCSD’s Managing Director Food & Nature Diane Holdorf, was originally published on 26 March 2020 by the Club of Rome. It is time to harness our fears, build hope and drive action to […]
Business as unusual, reshaping the present and the future
Business response to COVID-19
Coronavirus crisis is a stress test for the entire system
Capitalism in its current form is starting to lose its “license to operate”.
World Water Day: the relationship between water and climate change
A conversation with Piet Dircke, Arcadis’ Global Leader of Resilience and Water Management Hand hygiene is essential to containing the spread of COVID-19 and many other infectious diseases. This World Water Day, and any other day, please remember to wash your hands regularly with water and soap or alcohol-based hand rub. Today is international World Water […]
WBCSD and the International Transport Forum to collaborate on emerging mobility trends and Mobility as a Service
Geneva, 18 March 2020: The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) this week signed a letter of voluntary contribution with the International Transport Forum (ITF), to facilitate the co-production of a case-specific policy analysis study that will map emerging trends across transport modes and help navigate the new mobility landscape. ITF is the leading global body […]
First standardized guidelines to measure plastic pollution across corporate value chains published by the Plastic Leak Project
Geneva, 9 March: The Plastic Leak Project recently released the Plastic Leak Project (PLP) Guidelines which provide businesses at all stages of the value chain with a robust, standardized method for calculating and reporting estimates of plastic and microplastic leakage at both the corporate and product level. These insights will provide businesses with a strong foundation to define […]