WBCSD to represent global business voice in Advisory Committee for 2021 United Nations Food Systems Summit

The United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres, in collaboration with the United Nations Rome-based Agencies, will convene the Food Systems Summit in 2021, as a critical contribution to the Decade of Action to deliver the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Sustainability experts discuss human rights in agriculture value chains

Singapore, 23 June: Agribusinesses have a responsibility to ensure that human rights are respected within their operations and across their supply chains. Many of these companies have significant land footprints, operate in complex value chain networks, and are major employers across the globe, including in countries with fragile social and political environments and weak jurisdiction. […]

A recipe to reduce food loss and waste

Geneva, 23 June 2020: Reducing food loss and waste is one of the most important levers to transform our food system to achieve our healthy people healthy planet goal. Over the past months, BCG and WBCSD member SONAE, the Portuguese retailer, with support from WBCSD’s FReSH (Food Reform for Sustainability and Health) project, have conducted a project aimed at identifying […]

Wicked Fire – Managing fire risk in a changing climate

he Global Agri-Business Alliance (GAA) has organized a workshop on fire prevention with its members and stakeholders. As part of this workshop, Craig R Tribolet, APRIL’s Sustainability Operations Manager shared his insights on fire prevention in Indonesia and APRIL’s learnings along the way. The below insight is now available: Jakarta, Indonesia, June 2020: After widespread forest fires […]