IKEA restaurant meals: 50% plant-based by 2025
As one of the world’s largest food providers, IKEA is taking the next step towards making healthy and sustainable food more affordable and desirable to the many people.
Tag: Agriculture and Food
Business and labor organizations call for renewed multilateralism from G20 countries
eaders from 13 international business and labor organizations joined voices to send a strong message to G20 countries to urge them to step up collaboration at the global level to tackle our global crises, including the unprecedented health and economic devastation that COVID-19 has created.
“Bold Actions for Food as a Force for Good” – a new milestone toward the UN Food Systems Summit 2021
he UN Food Systems Summit (UN FSS) in 2021 is a critical milestone event that will contribute to the Decade of Action and Delivery of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
What nature can do for the climate in a post-COVID world
Business are in a race to zero It was expected that 2020 would set the agenda for environmental action for the next decade. But with the postponement of the UN Biodiversity Conference (CBD COP 15) and the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26), along with the enormous fiscal pressures created by COVID-19, this year threatens to disrupt […]
Chapter on Healthy and Sustainable Diets
The private sector is responsible for almost all the food produced, sold and consumed globally. Therefore, businesses have a central role to play in improving food production and consumption patterns worldwide.
WWF’s report “Bending the Curve
On October 9, 2020 WWF launched the report “Bending the Curve: The Restorative Power of Planet-Based diets” as well as an online Planet-Based Diets platform to increase the understanding of the impact of dietary choices at the national level.
WASH Pledge guiding principles and self-assessment tool: Now available in Spanish
Geneva/New Delhi, 6 November 2020: Today, over 785 million people are still without access to safe drinking water, another 2.2 billion lack safely managed drinking water services and an estimated 4.2 billion lack access to safely managed sanitation services.1 This is incompatible not only with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development’s (WBCSD) Vision 2050, […]
Advancing human rights policy and practice in the agribusiness sector
Objectives of the toolkit Download the toolkit here. For those implementing the toolkit within their agribusiness operations, a trainer guidance note and customizable slide deck for trainers to use has also been developed for WBCSD member companies. For more information and to access the additional training materials, contact Melanie Levine at levine@wbcsd.org.
GSK sets new environmental goals of net zero impact on climate and net positive impact on nature by 2030
Increasing scientific evidence[1] demonstrates that climate change and nature loss are impacting the world and human health in many ways, including: extreme heat contributing to deaths from diseases; increased spread of infectious diseases and air pollution exacerbating respiratory diseases.
50L Home – New global Coalition to address water security and climate change
Geneva 27 October 2020: Launched today, the 50L Home Coalition is a global, action-orientated multi-stakeholder platform that addresses two of our most pressing global challenges: water security and climate change. As a member of the Leadership Group and hosting secretariat, WBCSD is thrilled to announce this unprecedented level of collaboration that aims to make 50 liters (L) of […]