Geneva, New York City,10 January 2019: The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) is pleased to announce that William (Bill) Sisson has been named the Executive Director for WBCSD North America, based in New York City. In this role, he will direct and oversee WBCSD’s regional member relations, sustainability-oriented projects and events. Bill has over 30 years […]
Last week in San Francisco, climate leaders across business, policy and civil society gathered to “take ambition to the next level” at the first-ever Global Climate Action Summit.
This new data-driven infographic was released during the Global Climate Action Summit in San Francisco. It’s designed to send a clear policy signal: business is stepping up to climate ambition.
12 September 2018: Today at the Global Climate Action Summit in San Francisco, the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) publicly launched its new project focused on mobilizing private sector investment to scale natural climate solutions. These solutions are an established means of capturing and storing carbon emissions through carbon sinks like forests and peatlands. […]
The High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development, the UN’s central platform for follow-up and review of the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals, took place at the UN headquarters in New York City from 9 to 18 July 2018.
In September 2015, Mark Carney, Governor of the Bank of England, issued a clear warning about the Tragedy of the Horizon, stating that by the time climate change impacts financial stability, it will already be too late.
We need to transform our agricultural production systems to achieve greater productivity, be more resource efficient, and become more resilient to risks, shocks and long-term climate variability. WBCSD has convened a group of companies from the food and agriculture sector to address the dual challenges posed by climate change, and the need to satisfy the […]
Last week, over 1,100 sustainability professionals from around the world gathered in Phoenix, Arizona for the tenth annual GreenBiz conference.
This publication marks our fifth edition of Reporting matters. Our research has confirmed that many organizations find it challenging to meet the increasing number of disclosure requirements in a robust manner.
On the agriculture thematic day at the COP21 meeting in Paris, leading global agribusiness leaders have outlined their ambition to tackle the challenge of making more food available for a growing population while reducing agriculture’s greenhouse gas footprint. • Leading agri-business companies PepsiCo, Monsanto, Olam and Kellogg Company join forces to make 50% more food […]