World Business Council for Sustainable Development

World Business Council for Sustainable Development
Founded1995
FounderStephan Schmidheiny
FocusSustainable Development
Location
Area served
Global
Key people
Peter Bakker (CEO & President)
Employees
51–300
Websitewww.wbcsd.org Edit this at Wikidata

The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) is a CEO-led organization of over 225 international companies.[1] The council is also connected to 60 national and regional business councils and partner organizations.[2]

Its origins date back to the Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit of 1992,[3] when Stephan Schmidheiny, a Swiss business entrepreneur, was appointed chief adviser for business and industry to the secretary general of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED).[4] He created a forum called "Business Council for Sustainable Development", which went on to become Changing Course, a book that coined the concept of eco-efficiency.[5]

The WBCSD was created in 1995 as a merger of the Business Council for Sustainable Development and the World Industry Council for the Environment[6] and is based at the Maison de la paix in Geneva, Switzerland,[7] with offices in New York and New Delhi.

  1. ^ "About us". World business council for sustainable development. Retrieved 19 November 2018.
  2. ^ "World Business Council for Sustainable Development – WBCSD". Genève Internationale. Retrieved 28 November 2018.
  3. ^ "Our history". World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD). Retrieved 16 September 2020.
  4. ^ Griffiths, Hannah (29 May 2012). "Memo to Rio+20: 'green economy' doesn't mean monetising nature". The Guardian.
  5. ^ "Eco-Efficiency". Smart Communities Network: Sustainable Business. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016.
  6. ^ "THE ICC & THE ENVIRONMENT". archive.corporateeurope.org.
  7. ^ Philander, S. (2008). World Business Council for Sustainable Development. doi:10.4135/9781412963893. ISBN 9781412958783.