RIO DE JANEIRO - Wednesday, June 20th 2012 [ME NewsWire]
(BUSINESS WIRE)-- The UN Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20)
provides an exceptional opportunity for swift policy action to
accelerate and scale business solutions so 9 billion people can live
well and within the limits of one planet by 2050. The World Business
Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) today pressed governments to
overcome their differences and to take decisive action now.
“Looking at the intense business participation, Rio might be remembered
for recognizing that business is a primary source of sustainable
solutions,” said Peter Bakker, President, WBCSD, at today’s Business
Action for Sustainable Development (BASD) Business Day event. “We must
maximize business’ innate ability to combine investment, skill and scale
to provide solutions that will make the world sustainable. We must
scale up solutions now.
“Today at Business Day, we heard from companies that are ready to commit
to real, verifiable sustainability goals that can enable a world in
which 9 billion people can live within the limits of one planet by 2050.
But they cannot act alone. Governments must now act decisively to
accelerate the scale-up of solutions and create an environment where
companies can deliver and are motivated to do so. In return, governments
should hold business accountable for progress.”
The WBCSD and its members are advocating that the policy recommendations
detailed in WBCSD’s recently launched discussion paper, Changing Pace,
guide the Rio+20 process and encourage government and business
collaboration on locally focused objectives and regulations that can
advance sustainability solutions.
Peter Bakker: “Furthermore, business is playing a vital role in
accelerating the transition to a green economy. The transparent
measurement and reporting of corporate sustainability activities must
become standard business practice with the full realization that there
are risks and potentially competing impacts to consider. That is why we
joined with The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and the Brazilian
Business Council for Sustainable Development (CEBDS) to call for UN
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to develop a process and a timeframe to
establish a global policy framework to create the appropriate enabling
conditions for more widespread sustainability reporting.”
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Contacts
World Business Council for Sustainable Development
Peter Paul van de Wijs, Managing Director, Communications
+41 22 839 3141
vandewijs@wbcsd.org
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