Preventing a COVID-19 food crisis – the role and opportunity for multinationals
As COVID-19 continues to impact millions of lives and jobs around the world, it is also making our global food system increasingly vulnerable.
Tag: North America
Supporting the board’s understanding of ESG to protect and preserve long-term value
A governance perspective and new online resources Geneva, Switzerland 20 May: With the current pandemic shock and growing demand to consider environmental, social and governance (ESG) aspects, boards need to be equipped for today’s challenges. To help, the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) launched a free online suite of resources for board directors to improve their […]
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?
Microsoft will be carbon negative by 2030
The scientific consensus is clear. The world confronts an urgent carbon problem.
PepsiCo to achieve 100% renewable electricity in the U.S.
PepsiCo’s products will soon be made using electricity from renewable sources, such as wind and solar.
Measuring and monitoring food waste for healthy people and a healthy planet
Over 1bn tonnes of food is wasted or lost every year but many countries and companies do not know where or why this is taking place.
New roadmap to maximize the forest sector’s contribution to the Sustainable Development Goals
Francisco Ruiz-Tagle, CEO of CMPC, launches WBCSD’s Forest Sector SDG Roadmap on behalf of leading forest companies at the High-Level Political Forum in New York. New York, Geneva, 17 July 2019: Eleven leading member companies from the Forest Solutions Group (FSG) of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) have issued a Forest Sector SDG Roadmap today. Its aim […]
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.
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 […]
WBCSD’s Forest Solution Group leads development of SDG roadmap to catalyze forest sector’s impact on the SDGs
Last week, members of the WBCSD’s Forest Solution Group (FSG) met in New York to chart the course that will lead the forest sector on a path to maximize its potential to contribute to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). FSG came together for two days to better understand the forest sector’s interaction with the […]