WBCSD reaffirms its commitment to business leadership by appointing Claire O’Neill as Managing Director for Climate & Energy. Geneva, 9 September 2020 – With a just over a year to COP26, business and governments are under increasing pressure to pair our recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic with breakthrough actions to achieve net-zero emissions. Companies united as […]
In April 2020, Shell announced their new plans to become a net-zero emissions energy business by 2050 or sooner.
Already carbon neutral today for corporate emissions worldwide, the company plans to bring its entire carbon footprint to net zero 20 years sooner than IPCC targets
As the initial stage of its SOS 1.5 project, WBCSD has developed a business roadmap to help companies design and implement their journeys to achieve net-zero emissions before 2050.
Today on World Environment Day, the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) released its new climate action roadmap to help companies reach net-zero carbon emissions before 2050. Geneva, 5 June 2020: SOS 1.5: The road to a resilient, zero-carbon carbon future provides companies with a step-by-step framework and key actions to start and advance their journey to net-zero […]
Supporting the EU’s carbon neutrality target, Total commits to become a net zero emission company for all its European businesses by 2050.
WBCSD joined the Call to Action of the Green Recovery Alliance calling for an EU-wide green recovery strategy focused on sustainability after COVID-19. This Call to Action, signed by WBCSD President & CEO Peter Bakker and María Mendiluce, Interim CEO We Mean Business & WBCSD Managing Director Climate & Energy, originally appeared online on 14 April 2020. The coronavirus […]
As heads of states and governments, business leaders and civil society from across the world gathered in Davos for the 50th World Economic Forum (WEF) Annual Meeting at the end of January, sustainability – including climate emergency – topped the agenda like never before.
As we follow the global climate talks in Madrid this week, there has never been more at stake.