P&G Embraces Natural Climate Solutions
The Procter & Gamble Company announced a new commitment to have its global operations be carbon neutral for the decade through a series of interventions that protect, improve and restore nature.
Tag: Climate & Energy
CMPC CEO: “Society expects companies to play a key role in the economic recovery, continuing to operate and provide salaries is not enough”
Francisco Ruiz-Tagle, CEO of Empresas CMPC, launched the company’s Integrated Report 2019 and presented its main results.
SOS 1.5: A new roadmap to action business commitments to deliver net-zero emissions
Today on World Environment Day, the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) released its new climate action roadmap to help companies reach net-zero carbon emissions before 2050. Geneva, 5 June 2020: SOS 1.5: The road to a resilient, zero-carbon carbon future provides companies with a step-by-step framework and key actions to start and advance their journey to net-zero […]
A clear-eyed view of the deeply disrupted decade ahead
What does the COVID-19 pandemic mean for the decade ahead? What vulnerabilities has it exposed? What trends is it accelerating? And what must business address as it builds back better from this crisis?
Vale advances on the climate agenda and unveils USD$2 Billion to reduce carbon emissions within the next ten years
Vale will invest at least USD $2 billion to reduce its direct and indirect absolute emissions (scopes 1 and 2) by 33% by 2030.
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.
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 […]
Business as unusual, reshaping the present and the future
Business response to COVID-19
Danone, Firmenich SA and Unilever recognized as global sustainability leaders with triple A score by CDP
WBCSD members Danone, Firmenich S.A and Unilever are among the only six companies in the world to have obtained a “triple A” score by CDP in recognition of their leading environmental efforts in tackling climate change, fighting deforestation and protecting water cycles.
Why we need circularity at the heart of climate action
As heads of states and governments, business leaders and civil society from across the world gathered in Davos for the 50th World Economic Forum (WEF) Annual Meeting at the end of January, sustainability – including climate emergency – topped the agenda like never before.