Green Recovery Alliance: reboot and reboost our economies for a sustainable future

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Insider Perspective: BIO World Congress for Industrial Biotechnology

This week below50 partnered with the Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO) to advance the case for below50 fuels during the BIO World Congress on Industrial Biotechnology (#BIOWC17) in Montreal, Canada, where industry leaders, government officials and academic researchers met to share the latest advances across the spectrum of industrial biotechnology including renewable chemicals, synthetic biology, food ingredients and advanced biofuels.

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