Images of the dry season fires in the Brazilian Amazon have generated massive media coverage and raised social consciousness about the existential challenges we face if rainforests continue to perish. They are vital to life on earth cleaning the air, circulating freshwater, storing carbon and providing livelihoods for more than a billion people. The latest […]
Time is running out to decarbonise the world’s economies. Can the business world respond in time? Eco-Business asks the two leaders of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, Peter Bakker and Olam boss Sunny Verghese, if sustainable capitalism can avert planetary disaster. This article was originally published by Eco-Business and republished with their kind agreement. The origins […]
MoU signed between WBCSD’s Peter Bakker and WEF’s Klaus Schwab and Dominic Waughray Geneva, 20 August 2019: The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) and the World Economic Forum (WEF) have today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to collectively mobilize action on urgent issues related to climate change, biodiversity, food systems, circular economy (including […]
Peter Bakker, president and CEO of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, outlines its Vision 2050 program and how it applies to posts.
WBCSD and its FReSH members supported the successful business mobilization conference held in The Hague in preparation for the Global Nutrition for Growth (N4G) Summit to be held in Tokyo, Japan at the end of 2020.
New global coalition calls for action to reverse nature loss and restore natural systems on which economies, wellbeing and prosperity depend. Dalian, China, 2 July 2019: Today, at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting of New Champions in China, and the Trondheim Biodiversity Conferences in Norway, a diverse group of influential international organizations has announced […]
Despite the fact we need food to survive, the agriculture and food sectors can seem at odds with an increasing global drive for sustainability. They impact on several planetary sustainability boundaries, the most concerning of which include nitrogen and phosphorous flows, loss of biodiversity, water consumption, and greenhouse gas emissions. At the 2019 EAT Forum, […]
An event to raise awareness about three key topics: sustainable and healthy diets, biodiversity and collaboration.
Geneva, 6 June 2019: The six members of WBCSD’s Soft Commodities Forum (SCF) – Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), Bunge, Cargill, COFCO International, Glencore Agriculture and Louis Dreyfus Company (LDC) – have issued public reporting on soy sourced from Brazil’s Cerrado biome. The reports follow the SCF members’ commitment to a common reporting framework last February, supporting […]
And business cannot fail, with 4,000 opportunities left to achieve the UN’s SDGs