Today, around 80% of industrial process heating applications source their energy from fossil fuels. This makes process heating by far the largest contributor to industrial carbon emissions. WBCSD is releasing a Solar Thermal Navigator Brief to raise awareness of solar thermal as a renewable heating solution. This document highlights the technology’s benefits, limitations, key parameters […]
Pulling the international community together to address global climate issues is a Herculean task. Thankfully, the United Nations Climate Change Conference has been a continuous consortium of the brightest minds working together to create actionable steps toward building a greener and cleaner future. Now in its 29th year (COP29) and taking place in Baku, Azerbaijan from November […]
Meeting the Paris Agreement climate goals requires electrification of transport at an unprecedented pace as well as a steep increase in transport efficiency to account for expected increases in passenger mobility demand. Mobility-as-a-service (MaaS) is a recognized solution for a more efficient and user-centric mobility by digitally integrating transport modes into one service platform and […]
The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) launched an open consultation to refine the 2023 Guidance on Avoided Emissions by gathering the perspectives and consensus of various stakeholders on key refinement themes. The update aims to enhance technical aspects of the Guidance while allowing for practical use and adoption. More broadly, the aim is […]
Baku, Azerbaijan, 14 November 2024 – The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) Center for Decarbonization Demand Acceleration (CDDA) and the Industrial Transition Accelerator (ITA) are pleased to announce the release of the “Green Purchase Toolkit: From demand signal to action, a toolkit to facilitate transactions” during the 29th Conference of the Parties (COP29) to […]
In this first progress report, the authors argue that the Market Transformation Action Agenda for the Built Environment is visible in many individual but still separate efforts. Transparency and accountability of operational as well as whole life carbon emissions of building projects, based on common standards, are the cornerstone of a profound market change to […]
In today’s business landscape, addressing climate change is not just a matter of corporate responsibility; it is a strategic imperative. As governments, investors, consumers, and industry peers increasingly demand and reward sustainable operations, companies must make climate action a core part of their strategy. The science is clear: decarbonizing the economy is essential to limiting […]
In the first blog of this series, we explored how the seeds of a new era of public-private co-creation have started to emerge, with examples of the public and private sector working together to problem solve, innovate and deliver for whole-of-society transformation. But also, that to scale these emerging forms of public-private co-creation, we must […]
We have just half a decade to get on track in our response to the intertwined climate, nature and inequality crisis. This represents an enormous challenge: achieving a net zero, nature-positive and more equal world in which nine billion people live well within planetary boundaries will require drastic changes across entire economic sectors and regions. […]
“It’s time”, said Helen Clarkson, CEO of Climate Group – hosts of Climate Week, 22-29 September 2024 – as she opened its 16th edition with a speech highlighting five key principles that “should underpin all our action”. “It’s time to put people first, […] to pay up, […] to listen to citizens, […] to be […]