An update on the World Business Council for Sustainable Development’s refresh of its landmark Vision 2050 Geneva, 10 October 2019: Earlier this year, the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) set out to revisit its landmark Vision 2050 – an ambitious study issued a decade ago, exploring what a sustainable world would look like in mid-century, how […]
“Walk into the board room of a typical Fortune Global 500 company today and the talk will be about today’s challenges. In an environment that rewards short-term gains, immediate concerns understandably dominate management’s time and attention. Many companies with relatively long business horizons are still effectively looking at their watches rather than their calendars. So […]
Realizing systems transformation – here’s a short video outlining our ambition to refresh our Vision 2050, building a collective business leadership & action agenda for the decade to come. Find out more here #LeadTransformSucceed
With the desire to contribute to a faster transition towards a more sustainable world, this implementation guide (IG) has been created to help companies integrate sustainability into their organizational culture. It does this by providing strategic planning guidance so that they can reach their Vision 2050 goals and become leaders in sustainability. Our purpose was […]
The WBCSD’s cornerstone Vision 2050 report calls for a new agenda for business laying out a pathway to a world in which nine billion people can live well, and within the planet’s resources, by mid-century. The report is a consensus piece that was compiled by 29 leading global companies from 14 industries and is the result of […]
The Vision 2050 report lays out a pathway leading to a global population of some 9 billion people living well, within the resource limits of the planet by 2050. This work results from an 18-month combined effort with CEOs and experts, and dialogues with over 200 companies and external stakeholders in some 20 countries. The report spells […]