Working together to deliver healthy people and a healthy planet
WBCSD’s President and CEO, Peter Bakker, provided a perspective for UNICEF’s 2019 edition of The State of the World’s Children (SOWC), published on 15 October 2019.
Tag: Insights from the CEO
Low-carbon transition and business leadership: insights from the first TCFD Summit in Japan
Last Tuesday 8 October the first-ever TCFD Summit was held in Tokyo, convening around 300 global attendees from government, business, investors and civil society to advance discussions around corporate disclosure on climate change.
“Business needs to do what it does best: to innovate and set up action plans to get to a 1.5 degree world”
CNNMoney Switzerland interviews Peter Bakker
From purpose to action: making the transition to a flourishing society
e recent Business Roundtable Statement on the Purpose of a Corporation recognizes that companies have responsibility to a broad range of stakeholders – such as customers, employees, suppliers and the environment – on par with their responsibility to shareholders.
Helping the postal sector to become more sustainable
Peter Bakker, president and CEO of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, outlines its Vision 2050 program and how it applies to posts.
Every day is an opportunity to scale-up partnerships for healthy people and planet
And business cannot fail, with 4,000 opportunities left to achieve the UN’s SDGs
A Global Coming of Age: How the Sustainable Development Goals can help transform the world we live in
We are living in a volatile world. Socially, politically, in the environment and the economy, many people feel that the system simply isn’t working for them, even though life today is a better experience for more people than it has been at any time in history.
Integrating the Sustainable Development Goals at the core of business
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were a prominent area of focus at GreenBiz 2019, one of North America’s key sustainable business conferences which took place the last week of February in Phoenix, Arizona.
New risks, new tangibles and new business
It’s becoming impossible to ignore the rapid shifts taking place in the corporate landscape around the world.
Tackle plastic pollution and join the Alliance to End Plastic Waste
Last week, I was privileged to represent the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) at the global launch of a new initiative that has the potential to be a game-changer in sustainability practice.