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: Nature-based Solutions (NbS)
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.
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 […]
Natural Climate Solutions will play vital role in tackling climate change emphasizes new report
WBCSD with the Nature4Climate coalition launched the report Natural Climate Solutions: the Business Perspective. The report builds consensus on how to credibly invest in Natural Climate Solutions as part of a climate action strategy and what are the barriers to investment, which WBCSD will now work to address. New York, 23 September: Yesterday, the World Business […]
Natural climate solutions: the business perspective
The report, developed by WBCSD member companies and international NGOs active in this area, highlights the role that nature can play in tackling our greatest challenge: climate change.
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
Published shortly after the landmark report by the Global Commission on Adaptation, WBCSD’s report brings together important global developments and latest thinking on climate adaptation and resilience, with particular focus on private sector climate resilience.
Stepping up business action to 1.5°C
Geneva, 16 September 2019 – The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) has today joined other organizations to endorse the ‘Business Ambition for 1.5°C’ initiative calling on companies to take 1.5°C-aligned climate action and commit to the 1.5 Pledge. Ahead of next week’s UN Climate Action Summit in New York City, WBCSD is calling on companies […]
Businesses call for deeper partnership to build a more forest positive future
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 for action is now – Bill Sisson, new Director for North America
Phoenix, AZ, 28 February 2019: 2019 will mark four years since the United Nations (UN) Member States unanimously agreed on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). These goals are a blueprint for peace and prosperity for people and planet by 2030 – a deadline which is starting to loom ever-larger on the horizon. At the World […]