Podcasts about wbcsd

In today's episode, we will hear from Simon Weaver, Global Head of ESG Advisory, KPMG International and Partner, KPMG in the UK and Fiona Watson, Vice President Corporate Performance & Accountability, WBCSD — who will share insights and reflections on integrating sustainability into financial valuations.

In this episode, Mark Lee is joined by Anne-Laure Brison, Senior Manager of Circular Products and Materials at World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD); Titta Rosvall-Puplett, Chief Sustainability Officer at Syensqo; and Cristina Pellegrino, ERM Global Industry Leader of Chemicals, to discuss “Towards Planet Positive Chemicals, A Chemical Transformation Roadmap” report created by WBCSD, ERM and nine leading chemical companies. Their conversation covers:·       Current challenges confronting the chemical industry·       Portfolio transformation and how it can be achieved  ·       What does nature positivity mean for the chemical industry·       The importance of value chain collaboration  Related content:Towards Planet Positive Chemicals: WBCSD ‘s Chemical Transformation Roadmap

Why did six top firms get six very different answers - to be exact they varied by 34% -  when measuring the same building's carbon footprint?Most architects want to design sustainable buildings, but the reality is - sustainability tools are often complicated, expensive, or come into the process too late to make a real impact. That's exactly what Sheena Zhang is working to fix. As a Sustainability Strategist at Autodesk, she helps develop tools like Forma and Insight that make it faster and easier to design greener buildings.Sheena breaks down:how to spot and avoid greenwashingwhy AI can be both a game-changer and a sustainability risk.how Autodesk is making sustainability insights accessible to the entire industry - not just high-budget projects.If you want to know how technology is shaping the future of green buildings, how to make sustainability decisions backed by real data, and why the way we measure carbon today might be misleading, this is an episode you won't want to miss.To explore more about Sheena Zhang and her work, you can follow her on Linkedin or visit Autodesk's sustainability section. Or read this if you want to learn more about the project Autodesk ran with WBCSD.Join me, Ladina, on this green journey, and don't forget to subscribe for more insightful conversations about sustainable living and architecture and drop us a review. If you have suggestions for future guests or topics, I'd love to hear from you on my socials!Let's explore the world of green architecture, one conversation at a time.Contact: Ladina ⁠⁠@ladinaschoepf⁠⁠Website: ⁠⁠⁠⁠buildinggreenshow.comProduced by: ⁠⁠marketyourarchitecture.com⁠

In this episode, Chris, David, and Mark discuss the shifting corporate sustainability agenda with specific reference to Unilever's new sustainability strategy, ERM and WBCSD's new report, Catching the Wave: Seizing the Opportunities of Sustainability Transformation, the 2024 Oxford-GlobeScan Corporate Affairs Survey, and SBTi's recent announcement about how it will revise its flagship Corporate Net-Zero Standard to allow the use of “environmental attribute certificates” – including carbon offsets as part addressing emissions reductions.

Pia Heidenmark Cook, acclaimed sustainability leader and former CSO at IKEA, sits down with Position Green Executive Chair Joachim Nahem in our latest episode. - Listen to one of the world's top sustainability influencers give advice on effective change management and how to ‘interpret the outside for the inside' in driving your company's strategic transformation. Pia shares insights from her time as Chief Sustainability Officer at IKEA and discusses the untapped potential of sustainability reporting. Can double materiality be used as a tool for building a more robust and competitive business?   About Pia Heidenmark Cook Pia is a senior ESG and sustainability leader, executive and advisor with over 25 years of global industry experience spanning multiple sectors, including professional services, healthcare, sports retail, sustainable materials and hospitality. During her tenure as IKEA's Chief Sustainability Officer in 2017-2021, it became one of the top three sustainability brands ranked by Globescan. Pia is also a frequent keynote speaker at high-profile conferences and events including for the UN, World Economic Forum and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development. She has been named one of the top 10 female leaders in sustainability by the WBCSD and one of the top 20 sustainability influencers on LinkedIn by the CEO Magazine.

Join Bonner County Daily Bee Sports Reporter Max Oswald and Bonners Ferry Herald Reporter Emily Bonsant as they cover local news for LPOSD, BCSD and WBCSD winter sports teams in the pre-season up until Dec. 23, 2023. Get catch up on all things, Wampus Cats, Spartans, Bulldogs and Badgers sports on the December Sports Round-up. For more local sports coverage visit www.BonnerCountyDailyBee.com and www.BonnersFerryHerald.comOr follow us on Facebook or Twitter to stay up to date on local sports. 

New research from AICPA & CIMA, together as the Association of International Certified Professional Accountants, and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) found a disconnect between the way leaders operate in day-to-day business and the long-term strategic initatives that keep businesses relevant and competitive amid constant change and transformation.  Peter Spence, associate technical director of management accounting at AICPA & CIMA, and Andy Beanland, a former consultant with the WBCSD, provide further insight into why business strategies are becoming increasingly complex, and why a holistic, adaptive approach to performance is necessary to set businesses up for long-term success in an era of disruption. Resource page AICPA & CIMA   What you'll learn from this episode: §  How integrated performance management can help drive better business decision-making. §  Some of the reasons businesses today may fail to fully execute their strategies. §  Why silo mindsets make for weak management systems. §   Analysis of the differences between weak-matrix and strong-matrix management systems. §  The importance of adaptability and innovation in an era of change. §  How to create a performance culture that engages workforces.

Matt Inbusch, senior manager at the World Business Council for Sustainable Development and Mike Nemeth, senior adviser for agriculture and environmental sustainability at fertiliser business Nutrien talk with Ian Welsh about how nature's role in the global economy is increasingly being valued. They discuss WBCSD's nature-positive roadmaps and navigating the challenges and opportunities of nature-positive agriculture.

This week: Matt Inbusch, senior manager at the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, and Mike Nemeth, senior adviser for agriculture and environmental sustainability at fertiliser business Nutrien, talk with Ian Welsh about the growing potential for nature-positive approaches across agricultural value chains. They talk about some helpful guidance – including roadmaps from WBCSD – to help navigate the challenges and take advantage of the opportunities from nature-positive agriculture.   Plus: China's rapid renewable energy surge; hottest day globally, since records began; UK plans to drop flagship COP26 climate pledge; M&S partners with Oxfam and eBay for circular school uniform initiative, in the news digest by Innovation Forum's Bea Stevenson.   Host: Ian Welsh

On "Food Talk with Dani Nierenberg," Dani speaks with Diane Holdorf, Executive Vice President for the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD). They discuss how WBCSD encourages cooperation among some of the world's leading companies, the importance of mandatory reporting to accelerate systems change, and what the Good Food Finance Network is doing to raise ambitions and drive action.   While you're listening, subscribe, rate, and review the show; it would mean the world to us to have your feedback. You can listen to “Food Talk with Dani Nierenberg” wherever you consume your podcasts.

In our inaugural podcast episode, Mark Lee sits down with Giulia Carbone, Director of the Natural Climate Solutions Alliance at WBCSD, and Jessica Christianson, Head of sustainability at Bayer Crop Science. Their conversation covers:Natural Climate Solutions and the C-Suite guide recently launched with The Sustainability Institute by ERM;the connection between nature, biodiversity and climate agendas; What quality natural climate solutions look like and the challenges in the vetting process; andHow collaboration is key to the necessary action on climate change and reversing the loss of biodiversity.Mark also speaks with Aiste Brackley, Associate Director of the SustainAbility Institute by ERM, on the the key takeaways from the C-Suite guide and the partnerships that help make the Institute's work possible.

What does reinvention, resilience and regeneration mean for business? Peter Bakker, the CEO of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), explains! He and Ilham discuss how we can create a more inclusive, more sustainable capitalism; the WBCSD's call to action on climate, equity and nature; the power of partnerships; how chemistry is the key to a more sustainable future; his passion for sustainable business, and much more.  It's time to transform! *note: this podcast was recorded in December 2021 just after COP26 Peter Bakker is the President and CEO of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, which is a global CEO-led community of the world's leading sustainable businesses. Peter's work has been recognized widely: he has been the recipient of the Clinton Global Citizen Award (2009), the Sustainability Leadership Award (2010), and has even received the Royal Order from the King of the Netherlands for his incredible commitment to helping businesses become more sustainable. For additional details about the podcast, show notes, and access to resources mentioned during the show, please visit https://www.solvay.com/podcast

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3OlkWgV Purpose is a concept that has been confused and abused to the point where some are thinking of moving to something else. In this talk, Victoria will set out why she thinks purpose is a concept of profound significance for business and society, because it encapsulates and operationalised the paradigm shift happening at the heart of economics and business. Having lived through a necessary time of proliferation and noise, consensus is starting to emerge about precisely what it is to be a purpose-driven organisation is. This is best evidence by the - about to be launched - first national guidance standard: PAS 808: Purpose-driven Organisations: Worldviews, Principles and Behaviours which was steered by a range of actors including Anglian Water, JLL, B Lab (C Corp), Prof Colin Mayer, John Lewis, ReGenerate, UK Government (DCMS), Future Fit Foundation and Business in the Community. Victoria will outline the accountability frame for purpose at the heart of this standard and how far she thinks purpose-driven firms can create the long-term wellbeing for everyone that we are in danger of irreversibly losing. Speaker: Dr Victoria Hurth works at the intersect of academia and hands-on business to help companies transition to be drivers of long-term wellbeing for all (sustainability). She works most of her time at the University of Cambridge – as a Fellow of the Institute for Sustainability Leadership and as a Visiting Fellow at Judge Business School. focuses on five core pillars: purpose, governance, marketing, leadership and culture. Victoria is currently Technical Author for the first national standard specifying the Worldviews, Principles and Behaviours of Purpose-Driven Organisations (PAS 808). She co-led the process to create ISO 37000, the first global consensus standard on organisational governance and currently co-leads the ISO working group (TC309/WG1) developing standards on Indicators of Effective Governance (ISO 37006) and guidance for governing bodies in Using, Selecting and Creating Indicators (ISO 37005). Victoria is an UNCTAD review panel member for ISAR Honors, was a member of the UNCTAD/UNEP Task Force developing a methodology for SDG indicator 12.6.1 and their guidance on core SDG indicators for business, and was a member of WBCSD's working group on Governance. She is a director of the Soil Association.

In this podcast we are discussing the critical role of responsible business conduct in the fight against child labor. Highlighting the socioeconomic consequences of COVID-19 on child labor, it is centered around commitments that companies have made throughout the past year to tackle the issue as well as the various barriers to progress. The podcast also highlights the importance for businesses to focus on prevention as part of meaningful and collaborative approaches that tackle root causes.

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/37nd4fH Standards are like marmite – some love them, some hate them. In either case they, and the process to create them, are often not well understood and so their value can go underappreciated. In this session Victoria will explain why, in amongst humanity's existential crises, she dedicated 5 years of voluntary time to chairing the process to create the world's first international standard on good governance of organisations. You will come away either thinking she is mad, or you may agree with some of her points as to the power of ISO 37000 as a change lever, either way you may learn something useful about standards and standards building. Speaker: Dr Victoria Hurth works at the intersect of academia and hands-on business to help companies transition to be drivers of long-term wellbeing for all (sustainability). She works most of her time at the University of Cambridge – as a Fellow of the Institute for Sustainability Leadership and as a Visiting Fellow at Judge Business School. focuses on five core pillars: purpose, governance, marketing, leadership and culture. Victoria is currently Technical Author for the first national standard specifying the Worldviews, Principles and Behaviours of Purpose-Driven Organisations (PAS 808). She co-led the process to create ISO 37000, the first global consensus standard on organisational governance and currently co-leads the ISO working group (TC309/WG1) developing standards on Indicators of Effective Governance (ISO 37006) and guidance for governing bodies in Using, Selecting and Creating Indicators (ISO 37005). Victoria is an UNCTAD review panel member for ISAR Honors, was a member of the UNCTAD/UNEP Task Force developing a methodology for SDG indicator 12.6.1 and their guidance on core SDG indicators for business, and was a member of WBCSD's working group on Governance. She is a director of the Soil Association

In the latest episode of the CGF Sustainability Podcast, host Madelaine VanDerHeyden speaks with CGF member Sarah Smith from The Kellogg Company, and Marcus Burke from WBCSD, to discuss a new tool developed by AIM-Progress and WBCSD to aid organisations in their responsible sourcing and supply chain due diligence. Take a listen to learn more about the human rights challenges facing the consumer goods industry and how collective action and open-source platforms can help businesses create a positive impact. Learn more about the CGF's social sustainability work at www.tcgfsocial.com.

When Peter Bakker joined World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) a decade ago, the conversation on climate change was very different. Back in 2012, he says, companies were still grappling with the 'why' of environmental issues, rather than the 'how'.Fast-forward 10 years and the business landscape has been transformed, the WBCSD President & CEO said. Today more than ever, sustainability is a central issue for growing companies.By developing tools to help leading businesses tackle climate, WBCSD has been working to build a more balanced world. Made up of more than 200 members, this CEO-led community is accelerating the system transformations needed for a net-zero, nature-positive and more equitable future.In conversation with IMD's Professor of Strategy and Political Economy David Bach, Peter Bakker discussed the changing face of conservation, why equality is good for business, and his vision for 2050.Read our new magazine, I by IMD, here.Discover IMD's leadership programmes here.Host: David BachGuest: Peter BakkerProduced by: JohnJo Devlin

Planet Driven Brands Podcast Emeline Fellus. Emeline is a global leader in sustainable diets within WBCSD, who have for more than 2 decades been demonstrating leadership with its work on Climate, Energy, circular economies, food and nature and now in helping 'redefine capitalism'. Emeline makes a call for systemic change in our eating habits and describes how consumers need help in doing this - 'we shouldn't be scared of changing, but of NOT changing'! Our food systems need a re-balancing and Emeline describes her view on what actually constitutes a 'sustainable' diet. She points out that there is no one single answer due to the varying aspirational demands of cultures, but she believes that everyone needs to act! It is clear this movement needs leaders and Emeline mentions Paul Polman and Emmanuel Faber as such, alongside groups such as WHO and FAO. It is these people we need to turn to push us to make the steps to change and that this is urgent. As she says: "It's if we redirect the subsidies to actually support the better production practices and the better food, I think it would really be able to do a service to the planet and the people and as quickly as possible, because we're running out of time!" Emeline, like all our panellists, is passionate not only about her role but the role everyone is playing in creating a better future and here she spells out many of the steps we simply must be taking, before we run out of time. Here, in Planet Driven Brands Podcast Emeline Fellus shares this passion and her experiences with us. She also helpfully describes what FReSH actually is! I think you'll love it and I certainly enjoyed the chat :) If you'd like to meet Emeline digitally here is her LinkedIn profile About The Podcast The planet driven brands podcast is a library of thought leadership on brands and their responsibility to the welfare of the planet. We are about changing the world, one brand at a time. It may sound a little pretentious, but it is a real belief. We know brands have positive impacts on consumers and we want to bottle that! We will highlight brands as drivers for change and the role they play as influencers. This is a library of useful content for all to share. It's our small contribution. If you enjoyed this please do tell someone! If you'd like to subscribe please do so here: SUBSCRIBE Recruiting Thought Leaders We want to attract the best guests to come and tell us how we can harness the power of brands to help us build a better planets for all – people, animals, plants, the oceans – you get the drift! It may be a lofty aim; who knows, let's find out. If you'd like to come on the show, I'd love to hear from you Nic is a brand consultant and has over 30 years experience with brands across agencies, consultancies and brand owners – here's the LinkedIn profile! Here's the RSS feed for the podcast should you wish to copy it! If you have any comments please get in touch. The same goes if you want to come and chat to us and be a star of our show Thanks for listening to the Planet Driven Brands Podcast Emeline Fellus

The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) is a CEO-led organization of almost 200 of the world's most forward-thinking companies working together to accelerate the transition to a sustainable world. In 2010, the WBCSD published their original Vision 2050 that laid out a pathway to a world in which 9 billion people are able to live well, within the limits of the planet by mid-century, and they have since updated it to provide more guidance. In this episode, I will be going over what needs to change for us to reach our sustainable goals, including adjustments to capitalism and how companies are being monitored. You can find show notes and more information by clicking here: https://bit.ly/3rIFYuY 

Have you been wondering how to make your company or employer circular? Are you evaluating as to where to begin your journey? In that case, you will be happy to hear my insights in today's episode, wherein I bring to you learnings from my research on the above questions. Please do check out the below links of organisations I mentioned in this episode, who help businesses evaluate and analyze their Circular Transition Indicators. 1) WBCSD- https://www.wbcsd.org/Programs/Circular-Economy/Factor-10/Metrics-Measurement/Resources/Circular-Transition-Indicators-V1.0-Metrics-for-business-by-business 2) EllenMacArthur Foundation- https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/resources/apply/circulytics-measuring-circularity 3) Accenture- https://www.accenture.com/in-en/about/events/the-circular-economy-handbook 4) Forum For The Future- https://www.forumforthefuture.org/the-circular-economy-business-model-toolkit --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/circular-business-podcast/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/circular-business-podcast/support

New York Climate Week is where leaders from  finance, business, cities and regional government  gather to galvanise climate action alongside the UN General Assembly every September. This year was no different, with all events in virtual form both at the UN and outside it. In the lead up to the fifth anniversary of the Paris Agreement later this year, the point where governments promised to update their ambitions on climate change, we explore real actions in the real economy and politics.   Following the big news that China’s Xi Jinping announcing the country’s new goal to be carbon neutral before 2060, Christiana talked with Alok Sharma, the UK government’s Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, also President of the forthcoming climate negotiations, COP26, to find out about the state of diplomacy and what to aim for in 2021. Tom talked to four leaders from the private sector to find out about the biggest movers that will transform the next 10 years, including Amazon’s Kara Hurst, Mindy Lubber of Ceres, Halla Tómasdóttir of The B Team and Claire O’Neill of WBCSD.    Read the We Mean Business Coalition’s report, Climate Leadership Now, for further information on Action, Ambition and Advocacy in the private sector: www.wemeanbusinesscoalition.org/climate-leadership-now/   To keep in touch with the latest on Outrage + Optimism, sign up for news here: https://globaloptimism.com  --- Keep up with Christiana here: Instagram | Twitter | LinkedIn | Facebook --- Tom Rivett-Carnac: Instagram | Twitter | LinkedIn --- Join @GlobalOptimism on social media! Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | LinkedIn --- Don't forget to hit SUBSCRIBE so you don't miss another episode of Outrage + Optimism!

In this episode of the PRI podcast, Gail Whiteman, Professor of Sustainability, University of Exeter & Founder, Arctic Basecamp speaks with Peter Bakker, President and CEO of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) and the PRI’s CEO, Fiona Reynolds. They discuss WBCSD and the PRI’s new collaboration created to redesign engagement between corporates and investors and to drive sustainability outcomes and value creation. The podcast explores the rationale behind this critical and unique collaboration and what it aims to achieve. 

The U.S. Department of Labor received thousands of comments on a newly proposed rule that says sustainable investments still need to put financial performance first to have a place in corporate retirement plans. Some say the proposal would put needed guardrails in place around an increasingly popular investment product, but others argue that the rule will hamper ESG options in pension funds. We talk to sustainability experts on both sides of the debate in the latest episode ESG Insider, an S&P Global podcast about environmental, social and governance issues. The Labor Department in June proposed requiring company-sponsored retirement accounts such as 401(k)s and pension plans that are subject to the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, or ERISA, to give a higher priority to funds with the greatest financial performance potential than to those focused on non-financial environmental and social considerations. The vast majority of comments the DOL received in July were in opposition to the proposal, according to an analysis by a number of organizations including the US SIF: The Forum for Sustainable and Responsible Investment. Christian McCormick, director and senior product and sustainability specialist at asset manager Allianz Global Investors U.S. LLC, notes that sustainable funds have grown exponentially. Morningstar Inc. reported that the money invested in sustainable funds increased nearly fourfold in 2019 from the prior calendar year to a total of $21.4 billion. In comparison, the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, or WBCSD, has indicated that in 2019 only 4.8% of Fortune 1000 companies offered a socially-responsible fund option for employee retirement plans. Given the rising popularity of ESG funds, McCormick suggests that the Labor Department may be trying to act early before the trend spreads and takes hold in retirement plans. If the agency were to wait until more companies offered ESG fund options, it would face much more push-back "because it would require a lot of cost to then change investment lineups [and] require a lot of regulatory and perhaps even litigation costs for plans that have already added it," McCormick says in the interview. But William Sisson, executive director of the CEO-led WBCSD, contends that the new rule would make companies even less likely to offer ESG fund options. "This ruling is going to perhaps put some brakes on that because it's going to raise ... some flags to the fiduciaries in our companies about concerns over the litigation risk and other factors that they'll have to pay attention to if this ruling goes forward," he tells ESG Insider.

We live in a golden age of mobility – more people are moving further and more rapidly around the world. As much as these developments have simplified our way of traveling, they also created negative externalities: Right now transportation is the second greatest source of emissions, causing that 80% of cities today have air quality below the World Health Organization’s recommended level.In our third episode of Brighter Talks, Thomas Deloison, Director for Mobility at the World Business Council for Sustainable development (WBCSD), discusses which obstacles we face in developing sustainable transport and how we can overcome the limits of our today's mobility system.Wir leben im Goldenen Zeitalter der Mobilität – Menschen können immer weiter in immer kürzerer Zeit reisen. Aber so sehr sich unsere Art der Fortbewegung auch vereinfacht, hat sie gleichzeitig negative Auswirkungen auf die Umwelt: Verkehr gilt heute als zweitgrößte Ursache für Emissionen. Folge davon ist eine Luftqualität, die in 80% der Städte weltweit unter dem von der World Health Organization empfohlenen Level liegt.In der dritten Episode von Brighter Talks begrüßen wir Thomas Deloison, Leiter des Fachbereichs Mobilität im World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD). Wir diskutieren mit ihm Hürden in der Entwicklung nachhaltiger Transportmöglichkeiten und wie wir die Grenzen unseres heutigen Mobilitätssystems überwinden können. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Business and human rights - a combination that has not always had a very positive cling to it. But the landscape is changing rapidly, with CEO's taking a stand for respecting human rights and encouraging their colleagues to do the same. At the same time, stakeholders such as investors are requiring evidence of the work done. But human rights work takes time and the indicators can be challenging to quantify. How can companies and stakeholders have a meaningful and long-term dialogue on these topics? Guesting the pod are Kitrhona Cerri, Director, Social Impact, WBCSD, Elena Espinoza, Manager, Social Issues, PRI, and Ylva Stiller, Director, Human Rights, Stora Enso.

Sustainability is an integral part of mainstream business and investor decision-making. Transforming performance management, governance, and assurance to make this information more valuable for all stakeholders is a key reporting task in today's business. Management accountants - corporate accounting and finance professionals - can apply many of their skills to make sustainability information more reliable and informative and, therefore, more value-added for their organizations. In this episode, we at Count Me In hosted Mario Abela, CMA, CPA, Director of Redefining Value for the World Business Council for Sustainable Development and Shari Littan, CPA, JD, Manager of Corporate Reporting Technical Activities at IMA, to have a conversation about enhancing the quality and value of corporate sustainable business information. Mario's expertise is in corporate reporting and he has held senior management positions in both the private and public sectors in Australia, Belgium, the United Kingdom and the US. He has extensive regulatory and standard setting experience. Mario is a visiting professor at IESEG School of Management in Paris where he teaches in the Masters in Accounting, Audit and Control program. He is also an expert advisor to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development on corporate reporting. Shari contributes thought leadership content as part of the Research and Policy team at IMA. Prior to joining IMA, Shari was a full-time editor and author for GAAP Reporter on Thomson Reuters Checkpoint, which helps professionals understand and stay current on financial reporting guidelines. In 2015, she completed the Postgraduate Certificate in Sustainable Business, with commendation, from the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership. Shari also holds a JD from Boston University School of Law and a BS, magna cum laude, from the School of Management at Binghamton University. This is an extremely valuable episode for all business professionals, so download, listen, and review now!

PPAs are a crucial way to finance new renewable energy as countries phase out subsidies and companies are looking to consume more green energy. This week´s pod discusses the current state of the PPA market and highlights ways to overcome regulatory barries and other risks. Host:Richard Sverrisson, Editor-in-Chief Europe, Montel. Guests:Caroline Brun Ellefsen, Global Head, Instatrust, DNV GL, Mariana Heinrich, Manager, Climate and Energy, WBCSD. Produced by Anna Siwecka. Music by Laurence Walker.

Podcast moderator Chris Hagler from EY's Climate Change and Sustainability practice talks with Paul Sobel, Chairman of the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO), Rodney Irwin, Managing Director of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development's (WBCSD) Redefining Value and Education, and Mark Weick, former Director of Sustainability Programs at the Dow Chemical Company, about leveraging enterprise risk management to manage environment, social and governance (ESG) risks. 

Andrea Brown of the impact investment manager Quadia joins us on the podcast today! In this episode, you will learn about impact investing, hear Andrea’s thoughts on promising new business models that can help the transition to a more circular economy, and find out why circular finance has received a lot of attention lately. Resources and links discussed in this episode can be found at gettinginthelooppodcast.com. ABOUT TODAY’S GUEST Andrea Brown is Director of Impact for Quadia. Quadia is a pioneer investment manager allocating private and institutional wealth into investment strategies that are helping to accelerate the circular and regenerative economy. Andrea brings over ten years of working with global fortune 500 companies on sustainability strategy at the World Business Council for Sustainable Development. There she led the development of WBCSD’s circular economy program, Factor10 bringing together CEOs from over 40 companies, including Dow, P&G, DSM, Philips, IKEA, Unilever, Veolia, Danone and more. She developed the CEO Guide to the Circular Economy and is a regular speaker on circular economy and sustainability at global events. HIGHLIGHTS 3:00 Using finance to help scale the circular economy 5:45 Linear risks that the circular economy can avoid 8:00 What is impact investing and how is it different from traditional investment? 12:30 Quantifying the impact of circular businesses and trends in sustainable finance 16:30 Entrepreneurship and value creation in a circular economy through collaboration 19:30: Making the business case for circular business models 23:15 Visions for transitioning to a circular economy

A big THANK YOU to the World Business Council for sustainable Development for inviting Gerd Leonhard to speak at this event, and for making this video available. More about WBCSD here: https://www.wbcsd.org/ This talk is about how we can make our future sustainable in the wider sense, i.e. as far as energy, environment and technology is concerned. The future is exponential, combinatorial, convergent and CIRCULAR - and we need to prepare accordingly. The talk also touches on the 8 technological game-changers and the Megashifts see www.megashifts.digital. Automation is a much bigger challenge to our society than globalization ever was. Too much of a good thing can be a very bad thing. We should never put convenience over consciousness. We need to include the externalities of technology in all segments of business. We need a digital ethics council! If you enjoy Gerd's podcasts, videos and talks, please take a look at my recent book “Technology vs Humanity” http://www.techvshuman.com or buy it via Amazon http://gerd.fm/globalTVHamazon - the book is available in English, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Korean and French (and more to come soon.

Peter Rowe is Co-founder of Deep Branch Biotechnology. Self-described as "helping to turn the polluters of today into the producers of tomorrow," Peter discusses the idea, method, and science behind Deep Branch. According to the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD www.WBCSD.org), "Concrete is the most widely used material on earth apart from water, with nearly 3 tons used annually for each man, woman, and child." This is significant because the amount of CO2 emitted from its production is almost on a 1-to-1 ratio. Per 1 pound of concrete produced, there are about 0.9 pounds of CO2 emitted. Peter was trained as molecular microbiologist with specific interests in synthetic biology and genome editing technologies. We not only talk about his efforts to help solve some of the most pressing issues with CO2 emissions, but Peter also indulges us in a free-ranging conversation regarding his experience with CRISPR and the ethical issues posed about the use of this often controversial science. https://deepbranchbio.com/ To send BrandFirst feedback or ask questions you can reach out to hello@brandfirstnj.com

In this webinar experts from IINAS, WBCSD, SkyNRG and United Airlines join Innovation Forum's Toby Webb to discuss the sustainability of biofuels and who will be using them by 2025 and beyond. They debate the scale challenges, and look at how and whether biofuels will play a major role in carbon reduction for business users.

The best of live interviews from GreenBiz events. This episode: CEOs from GRI and WBCSD bring visions down to earth.

由於大型企業的發展，使台灣4%的人，創造80%的GDP！當企業影響力增加，責任也更重！但可喜的是，企業志工往往不是被企業社會責任CSR政策推動，更多的是由下而上主動促使公益、良善行動的實現。當大企業的核心職能發揮在公益，例如重組電腦捐贈等，可說大有可為。當企業捐贈救護車，用員工名字取名；當環保洗髮精帶動髮廊、顧客、婆婆媽媽一起節能……我們更看到許多中小企業「小巨人」，在CSR發揮百花齊放的創意影響力！ 從工業革命到現代，人類社會的工業前所未有地快速發展，但在此之後，人們逐漸開始反思企業與勞工、環境和社區之間的關係，單純的利益追求不再與「成功」畫上等號，企業的社會責任─CSR的概念也應運而生。世界企業永續發展協會（WBCSD）指出，企業社會責任是「企業承諾持續遵守道德規範，為經濟發展做出貢獻，並且改善員工及其家庭、當地整體社區、社會的生活品質。」此概念從西方國家逐漸擴及台灣，天下雜誌自1994年起就開始這項長遠且深入的觀察。本集來賓天下雜誌調查中心總監熊毅晰不諱言，發起這項觀察，跟當時如RCA污染事件，或企業設廠遭到抗爭等有關。但到了後來，卻發掘出愈來愈多的正面貢獻，企業本身也有更強的動機回饋社會，發展出更加健全的作法與機制。二十多年來CSR在台灣企業的運作狀況如何？對社會帶來哪些改變？致力CSR的企業股價更高，真的嗎？未來又有哪些可預期的發展面向？請聽熊毅晰為您揭開「調查」結果的面紗。歡迎收聽！

Project Drawdown is the most comprehensive plan ever proposed to reverse global warming. All solutions modeled are already in place, well understood, analyzed based on peer-reviewed science, and are expanding around the world. To discuss this exciting initiative in our studio, WBCSD’s Managing Director for Climate & Energy Maria Mendiluce is joined by Chad Frischmann, Research Director at Project Drawdown and Prof. Tim Flannery, an acclaimed scientist, explorer and conservationist.

In recent months, we’ve seen hurricanes in the United States that caused $300 billion in economic losses, floods in India that caused dozens of deaths and destructive wildfires in Iberia and California. This is what the world looks like after a temperature increase of 1°C - can you imagine what it will look like after 3°C? The circular economy is one of the solutions, and it’s everyone’s business. Listen to Maria Mendiluce, Managing Director at WBCSD, outline the circular economy and the action that business can take in her speech at TEDxDonauinsel.

Were Japanese companies like Mitsubishi Corp ahead of the curve when it came to including corporate responsibility into their business values? And how has sustainability evolved in the decades since Mitsubishi Corp first became active in this area? We speak with Julie Rogers, General Manager for Corporate Communications and Sustainability at Mitsubishi Corporation Europe and WBCSD’s James Gomme to get their first-hand insights.

The best of live interviews from GreenBiz events. This episode: An intimate look at what the United Nations SDGs mean for business.

We asked Peter Bakker, President of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD): 1. What is in your opinion the single greatest challenge facing the world today? 2. What measures must politicians and business leaders take in order to overcome this challenge? 3. What advice would you give young people today? Peter Bakker joined the WBCSD in January 2012 after having been involved as a member for a number of years in his role as CEO of TNT NV, the Netherlands based holding company of TNT Express and Royal TNT Post. Peter is a respected leader in corporate responsibility. He is the recipient of Clinton Global Citizen Award in 2009 and the SAM Sustainability Leadership Award in 2010, and is a UN WFP Ambassador Against Hunger. In addition to his role at the WBCSD, Peter is the Chairman of War Child Netherlands; a Co-Chair in the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN-LN); Council member for China Council for International Cooperation (CCICED); and Deputy Chairman for International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC). Peter holds a masters degree in Business Economics from the Erasmus University Rotterdam and a Bachelor Degree in Business Administration from the HTS Alkmaar.