WBCSD – World Business Council for Sustainable Development

As we approach #COP30 in Belém, WBCSD’s Brazil-focused projects are at full steam, driving meaningful change to scale #RegenerativeAgriculture and deforestation-free supply chains. Soft Commodities Forum’s Farmer First Clusters The Farmer First Clusters initiative is making tangible progress in promoting deforestation- and conversion-free soy production in the #Cerrado: ✅ 236 farms engaged across 1M+ hectares, preserving 250K+ hectares of native vegetation ✅ Nearly 6,000 hectares of native vegetation under protection & 214 hectares under restoration ✅ Stronger land tenure & more resilient farmers With key partners, we’re proving that sustainable agriculture enhances productivity while restoring ecosystems. Read more in the Soft Commodities Forum (SCF) 2024 Annual Report: https://lnkd.in/dGdxQEr4 Landscape Accelerator – Brazil (LAB) One month to go! As an official pre-COP30 event, the LAB and its core partners – Boston Consulting Group and CEBDS - will unite companies, producers, financiers, policymakers, and civil society in the Cerrado to tackle key challenges: unlocking finance, policy solutions, and cost-effective measurement, reporting, and verification systems to scale the regenerative transition. 📢 Stay tuned for updates on our webpage: https://lnkd.in/eKkg_TQp The Sustainable Landscapes Partnership The SCF and Consumer Goods Forum FPC launched the Sustainable Landscapes Partnership in November 2024 during the New York Climate Week. With USD $5.2 million already in co-investment, the partnership aims to drive investment to transition key commodity-producing landscapes into forest-positive, resilient sourcing areas through joint investments in deforestation-free landscapes and standardized monitoring & financing models. Find out more about the Partnership’s results to date here: https://lnkd.in/eUxr2jkp IPAM Amazonia - Amazon Environmental Research Institute Produzindo Certo Associação Rede ILPF Solidaridad Network Parque Vida Cerrado The Consumer Goods Forum ADM Bayer Bunge Cargill COFCO International Inter IKEA Group Louis Dreyfus Company Nestlé Olam Agri Brasil Olam Agri PepsiCo Rabobank Unilever Yara International Viterra Boston Consulting Group (BCG) Conselho Empresarial Brasileiro para o Desenvolvimento Sustentável (Cebds)

WBCSD is pleased to welcome VusionGroup as our newest member! VusionGroup is focussed on developing low-carbon digitization solutions for commerce. The Group aims to help physical retailers reach their net-zero goals whilst fostering a better environment for consumers 🌳 “Joining WBCSD is the opportunity for us to join forces and benefit from collaboration with other members to dive into pragmatic solutions or action plans, share knowledge and experience, open up to creative thinking regarding sustainability challenges to solve, while WBCSD will enrich our approach to sustainability as whole” - Pascale Dubreuil, Chief Sustainability Officer at VusionGroup. We look forward to working together to drive action on climate! 📈 Find out more: https://lnkd.in/eRC5Fgvz Peter Bakker

📣Circular Buildings Coalition (CBC) Open Call for Blueprint Projects: Achieving a Circular Economy 🔄 Circular Buildings Coalition (CBC) has launched a new Open Call for Blueprint Projects achieving a Circular Economy. Winners will receive up to €70,000 and expert mentoring. Their work will need to: ✅Demonstrate assurance on the quality and reliability of secondary materials ✅Showcase the value of reused and secondary materials ✅Unlock data and information flows across the value chain to enable circularity To find out more, join the upcoming webinar, which will explore the key challenge areas for the Open Call and answer questions from participants. It will feature a mix of industry experts, including insights from previous Blueprint Project winners. Details: 🗓️27th March 2025 ⏰15:00-16:00 CET Sign up to the webinar: https://lnkd.in/e4fyNGJs Learn more and apply to the Open Call: https://lnkd.in/dGt9772b #BuiltEnvironment #Sustainability #Circularity Nancy Gillis, Quentin Drewell, Roland Hunziker, Mert Ogut, Irene Martinetti, Filipe Camaño Garcia, Arup, Ellen MacArthur Foundation, World Green Building Council, Circle Economy, Metabolic, Smith Innovation, Laudes Foundation

♻️If your company produces innovative solutions that contribute to your clients' or partners’ circularity – this new guide is for you. WBCSD’s Circular Transition Indicators (CTI) Enabling Solutions Guide is a methodology that helps providers of circular solutions to qualify and quantify the solutions within their portfolio that enable better circular performance for their customers and partners 🌍 The CTI Enabling Solutions Guide equips users to:  💡Clearly identify innovations in their portfolios that contribute to a client’s circularity by improving circular resource use, circular design and circular resource recovery. 💡Stimulate improvements on the lifetime of products and materials 💡Quantify potential to scale circularity Discover how to make credible, consistent and comprehensive assessments of your company’s contribution to circularity! Explore more here 👉https://lnkd.in/e8vWhQkW Plus, register for a webinar that will walk you through implementation of the guidance 👉https://lnkd.in/ecqCpjm4 #CircularEconomy The guidance was developed in collaboration with KPMG and WBCSD member companies & CTI Advisory Group: Arkema, Avery Dennison, BASF, Clariant, Evonik, Fujitsu, SAP, SCGC - SCG Chemicals, Syensqo, TOMRA, ACEN, CIRAIG, Circle Economy, Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute, Ellen MacArthur Foundation, European Remanufacturing Council, MVO Nederland and Yunus Environment Hub. 

📣Good news! A preliminary inventory shows that the majority of WBCSD’s member companies that made commitments at the 2021 Nutrition for Growth (N4G) Summit to improve health and nutrition are on track – or have already delivered on their targets ahead of the next Summit in Paris. ✅While there is far more work to be done, this progress reflects the dedication over the past years of company nutritionists, R&D teams, and many partners in the food system collaborating to turn pledges into progress. This is a clear signal that business can drive impact on global nutrition and health goals. Read more about company achievements on nutrition in our latest blog: https://lnkd.in/ej35h4rc #HealthAndNutrition #SustainableDiets ATNi (Access to Nutrition initiative), Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN), Paris Peace Forum, dsm-firmenich, ofi, Ingka Group, Google, Ajinomoto Co., Inc., Griffith Foods, Unilever

#COP30 will be the COP of implementation. Business is instrumental. Collaboration is key. It’s time for action. Not our member yet? Get in touch & let’s get it done. #climateaction #justtransition #naturepositive

📢New Report: Nutrition Meets Procurement Food service procurement is a powerful but often overlooked lever for healthier and more sustainable diets. How can businesses and institutions integrate nutrition considerations into procurement decisions to drive meaningful change? 🔑Why it matters: 💰Our food systems generate $12 trillion in hidden costs linked to health, the environment, and the economy – procurement decisions can either contribute to or help reduce these costs. 🍽️The food service sector is key to transforming food systems; U.S. consumers spend over 50% of their food budget outside the home. 🌍Integrating nutrition into procurement strategies can encourage businesses to support public health and advance sustainability commitments, while creating more resilient supply chains. Our new report explores challenges, solutions, best practices, and opportunities for pre-competitive collaboration to shape food environments that promote healthy and sustainable diets. By embedding nutrition into procurement, businesses can help create food environments that support better health and sustainability. 📢Start transforming food service procurement in your organization today! 🔗Download the full report here: https://lnkd.in/eGHatD6Q 🔗Read our blog here: https://lnkd.in/eRyrZ3e2 #FoodService #FoodSystemsTransformation #NutritionIntegration Eat Well Global, Inc, BaxterStorey, Center for Good Food Purchasing, Compass Group, Foodbuy Group, Google Food Program, Gordon Food Service, Griffith Foods, Guckenheimer, ofi

Join us next Monday for the webinar 'Taking Action on Nature: Practical Insights from Asian Businesses', co-hosted with Business for Nature 👇🌲

Happy International Women’s Day! 🌏 Achieving gender equality is essential to building a better, more sustainable world. To tackle the climate crisis and restore and protect nature, we must recognise and empower women in their critical role as leaders and changemakers. Solutions to these challenges must also be equitable, addressing gender inequalities to ensure that all people can thrive in a sustainable way for our planet by 2050. With this in mind, WBCSD’s LEAP Program is designed to support women leaders to drive sustainable transformation in their organisations. It equips them with the leadership skills, strategic insights, and global network needed to make a lasting impact. It also provides participants with personalized mentorship and professional coaching, alongside the opportunity to connect with other women leaders shaping a net-zero, nature-positive, and equitable future 🌱 The program begins in May 2025, with in-person modules at leading business schools in Spain, the USA and Singapore. Find out more: https://lnkd.in/eYFX5dUp #IWD2025   #AccelerateAction

🚨Transforming our food systems isn’t a solo act – it’s everyone’s business! At the upcoming High-Level Private Sector Event on March 26, ahead of the Nutrition 4 Growth Summit (N4G) in Paris, businesses are proving that leadership in nutrition and sustainability is both possible and necessary. Since the last N4G Summit in 2021, several WBCSD member companies have continued to deliver against SMART commitments in areas such as food fortification, product reformulation, workforce nutrition, and plant-forward foods. ➡️The result? Meaningful progress toward healthier and more sustainable diets. But we’re not there yet. To truly shift the food system, collaboration is key - across industries, policymakers, and civil society. 💡How can we accelerate change? By celebrating progress, championing transparency, and working together. Read more about how WBCSD member companies have turned pledges into progress ahead of #N4GParis 👉https://lnkd.in/ej35h4rc #SustainableDiets #FoodSystemsTransformation #CollaborationForImpact Unilever, dsm-firmenich, Google, Griffith Foods, Ajinomoto Co., Inc., IKEA & Ingka Group, ofi, ATNi (Access to Nutrition initiative), Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN), Paris Peace Forum