The Reporting Exchange, the global resource for corporate environmental, social and governance reporting, will be transferred from May 2021 to Arabesque, a leading provider of technology solutions for sustainable finance and a member of WBCSD, to leverage the newest technological and data intelligence advances.
WBCSD members Danone, Firmenich S.A and Unilever are among the only six companies in the world to have obtained a “triple A” score by CDP in recognition of their leading environmental efforts in tackling climate change, fighting deforestation and protecting water cycles.
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.
Geneva, Switzerland 27 February 2018: Today, the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) and the Climate Disclosure Standards Board (CDSB) released a new report that maps global and regional Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) reporting trends. The report shows that in the past 25 years, environmental topics have been the most prevalent reporting requirements across 60 […]
Today, at GreenBiz18 in Phoenix, the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) released a new report, compiling data from the Reporting Exchange that offers a closer look into the reporting landscape of the United States and Canada. Phoenix, Arizona 5 February 2018: The Reporting Exchange is the first attempt to understand global influences on corporate disclosure across the full […]
New York, U.S., 22 November 2017: The International Auditing and Assurance Standards Board (IAASB) has agreed to collaborate with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) – to strengthen international assurance standards on sustainability reporting. The collaboration supports WBCSD’s Redefining Value program and its objective to incorporate sustainability reporting within mainstream reporting, while ensuring external reporting follows […]
The way our current financial system values corporate success is too narrow.
Sustainability challenges pose significant business risks. In fact, the World Economic Forum’s 2017 Global Risk Report shows many of the top business risks are related to environmental or societal issues. How can we understand, disclose and manage these risks? In the newest report, “Sustainability and enterprise risk management: The first step towards integration,” we find that […]
The new global reality offers new opportunities, even if it seems like we’ve taken two steps forward in recent years only to step back now. Ahead of our GreenBiz 17 conference, we collaborated on the Redefining Corporate Value event in Phoenix, Arizona. Partners included the World Business Council for Sustainable Development and the Arizona State University Walton Sustainability Solutions […]
Scaling up effective non-financial reporting globally: A Latin American perspective Geneva, December 15 2015 – Reporting matters 2015, a new publication by the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) developed in partnership with consultants Radley Yeldar, shows that the effectiveness of corporate non-financial reporting is improving among leading companies, but there remains work to […]