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Recommendations for government negotiators to effectively include harvested wood products within the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
World Business Council for Sustainable Development , 2011
This paper describes the important carbon storage and substitution benefits of Harvested Wood Products (HWP). It notes that HWP from forests that are sustainably managed contribute to climate mitigati...
Measuring impact-beyond the bottom line
World Business Council for Sustainable Development , 2008
Over the past few years, several companies have explored ways to measure the impact of their business activities on the societies in which they operate. These innovations have led to development a com...
Establishing a global carbon market
World Business Council for Sustainable Development , 2008
This paper presents a discussion on the creation of the global carbon market. It observes that action to address climate change is already happening, and the pace at which initiatives are developing i...
Measuring Unilever’s Economic Footprint: The Case of South Africa
E.B. Kapstien / World Business Council for Sustainable Development , 2008
This report provides an analysis of the Unilever “economic footprint” in South Africa. Unilever South Africa (ULSA) ranks among that country’s “Top Forty” companies, and ...
New partnerships: how business can contribute to development in difficult local environments
World Business Council for Sustainable Development , 2008
This paper debates the issues around business contribution to development. It is derived from the proceedings of a conference organised by the European Office of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung and IFOK ...
Markets for ecosystem services: new challenges and opportunities for business and the environment
J. Bishop;L. Timberlake / World Business Council for Sustainable Development , 2007
The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA) concludes that some two-thirds of the world’s ecosystem services are degraded or being used unsustainably. This briefing paper outlines the potential ...
Doing business with the world: the new role of corporate leadership in global development
World Business Council for Sustainable Development , 2007
This report presents a business-centred view of development, which focuses on a model of bottom-up development based on private enterprise development. It argues that business can provide the resou...
Mobility for development: facts and trends
World Business Council for Sustainable Development , 2007
Sustainable mobility as the ability to meet the needs of a society to move freely, gain access, communicate, trade and establish relationships without sacrificing other essential human or ecologica...
Promoting small and medium enterprises for development
World Business Council for Sustainable Development , 2007
This document examines how governments can help alleviate poverty by focusing on Small to Medium Enterprises (SME’s) and how larger corporations can help themselves by including SMEs in their...
Policy directions to 2050: a business contribution to the dialogues on cooperative action
World Business Council for Sustainable Development , 2007
This report asserts that the only way to combat climate change is through decisive, concerted and sustained actions between governments, businesses and consumers, and identifies policy options to ach...

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