在一个 广泛的采访 Peter Bakker, President and CEO of the WBCSD, the newspaper emphasizes the key aspects of WBCSD’s mission to overcome the challenges of sustainable development, by encouraging businesses to adopt a different mindset. 扩展Mr. Bakker’s question as to why “governments subsidize and incentivize fossil fuels and not renewable energy,” the article underscores the WBCSD’s message to the private sector that leadership for positive change now lies with business.
“Incremental changes cannot be a strategy for sustainability,” says Mr. Bakker, adding that the current Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) models are inadequate. 经济时报 explains that the WBCSD has led the way by engaging with over 800 scientists and experts to develop its new Action2020倡议. Action2020 is a science-based action plan that seeks to engage companies across the globe to implement innovative and scalable business solutions and improve the business case for sustainability.
Action2020, which the WBCSD is promoting to the world’s business leaders this week at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos, 瑞士, sets out nine priority areas, societal targets and an initial set of innovative business solutions. Reaching these targets would help achieve the long-term goal of a world in which nine billion people live well and within the limits of the planet by 2050. 先生. 赞美上帝说, Action2020 incorporates “the planetary and societal stress points that need immediate attention.”
经济时报article also stresses that the WBCSD – whose chair, 保罗•波尔曼(Paul Polman), is CEO of Unilever – is working hard with business to alter the current drivers in the corporate world. Businesses are not asked questions “on economic and societal risks. We need to change the rules to change behavior. 今天, t在这里 is no reward for companies that are more sustainable, as markets obsess only about returns,” Mr. Bakker说.
Mr. 巴克对 经济时报 shortly after presenting Action2020 to 印度’s leading business community executives and global partners. A report of that meeting can be read 在这里.
