Geneva, 26 August 2019: Startup accelerator MassChallenge and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) are joining forces to identify the 10 most promising technologies, startups and small companies to mitigate climate change that can be multiplied globally before 2030. This was announced at today’s Bühler Networking Days by Sunny Verghese, WBCSD Chair and Co-Founder […]
The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) and the CII-ITC Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Development (CII-CESD) have published an issue brief focused on India’s latest developments and evolving requirements on business and human rights. In India, expectations of corporate social responsibility have greatly evolved over the last decade, from philanthropy to integrating the […]
MoU signed between WBCSD’s Peter Bakker and WEF’s Klaus Schwab and Dominic Waughray. Geneva, 20 August 2019: The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) and the World Economic Forum (WEF) have today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to collectively mobilize action on urgent issues related to climate change, biodiversity, food systems, circular economy […]
Geneva, 27 August 2019: Earlier this month, Peter Bakker, President and CEO of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), embarked on a series of keynotes, high-level meetings and events across South East Asia to empower leadership from Asian businesses in the transition to a sustainable world. With the support of WBCSD’s Global Network […]
Time is running out to decarbonise the world’s economies. Can the business world respond in time? Eco-Business asks the two leaders of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, Peter Bakker and Olam boss Sunny Verghese, if sustainable capitalism can avert planetary disaster. The origins of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), an […]
WBCSD’s Sustainable Urban Mobility project, SiMPlify, has won a coveted award as part of the 2019 State-of-the-Art Partnerships, recently announced in Washington DC by P4G, the Partnering for Green Growth and the Global Goals initiative. SiMPlify won the category of SDG11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, for the work it has done in the City of […]
Images of the dry season fires in the Brazilian Amazon have generated massive media coverage and raised social consciousness about the existential challenges we face if rainforests continue to perish. They are vital to life on earth cleaning the air, circulating freshwater, storing carbon and providing livelihoods for more than a billion people. The latest […]
Widerøe, the largest regional airline in Scandinavia, has partnered with industrial technology experts Rolls Royce to develop zero emissions air travel. The programme, announced at a Clean Aerospace event at the British Embassy in Oslo, is part of Widerøe´s goal of replacing their regional fleet of over 30 planes with new electric ones by 2030. […]
Last week, I was privileged to represent the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) at the global launch of a new initiative that has the potential to be a game-changer in sustainability practice. The new Alliance to End Plastic Waste(AEPW) is a landmark effort from nearly 30 global organizations representing the plastic value chain, who […]