COP25: a missed opportunity to agree carbon market rules and raise climate ambition
After a marathon two weeks, the COP25 climate talks drew to a close yesterday in Madrid.
Tag: Climate & Energy
WBCSD’s Maria Mendiluce and our call for bolder climate action in 2020
As we follow the global climate talks in Madrid this week, there has never been more at stake.
COP25: Let’s talk about ambition
Global businesses are showing considerable climate ambition. But we need to go further and faster.
WBCSD releases key policy asks from business ahead of COP25 in Madrid
Geneva, 18 November 2019: A couple of weeks ahead of the opening of COP25 in Madrid, Spain (2-13 December), the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) released key policy recommendations for COP25 negotiators. The IPCC’s Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5°C published in October 2018, sent a clear signal: the impacts of allowing global warming to […]
The role of business in accelerating systems transformation
An update on the World Business Council for Sustainable Development’s refresh of its landmark Vision 2050 Geneva, 10 October 2019: Earlier this year, the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) set out to revisit its landmark Vision 2050 – an ambitious study issued a decade ago, exploring what a sustainable world would look like in mid-century, how […]
Insider perspective: RE-Source 2019
Last week delegates from 49 countries gathered in Amsterdam for RE-Source 2019, the world’s largest event on corporate renewable sourcing.
Key WBCSD takeaways from the UN General Assembly Week 2019
Last week leaders from a broad range of sectors and geographies gathered in New York around the opening of the 74th session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA).
“Business needs to do what it does best: to innovate and set up action plans to get to a 1.5 degree world”
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New report highlights practical steps that businesses can take to enhance climate resilience
Geneva, 18 September 2019: Today, the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) launched a new report entitled Business Climate Resilience – thriving through the transformation. The report provides a guide for business to build resilience by developing enhanced adaptive capacity to the impacts of climate change, to better manage associated risks and seize opportunities. The report highlights […]
Business climate resilience – thriving through the transformation
The climate emergency is a present-day reality, and we see its effects every day.