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WBCSD is the premier global, CEO-led community of over 200 of the world’s leading sustainable businesses working collectively to accelerate the system transformations needed for a net zero, nature positive, and more equitable future.
We do this by engaging executives and sustainability leaders from business and elsewhere to share practical insights on the obstacles and opportunities we currently face in tackling the integrated climate, nature and inequality sustainability challenge; by co-developing “how-to” CEO-guides from these insights; by providing science-based target guidance including standards and protocols; and by developing tools and platforms to help leading businesses in sustainability drive integrated actions to tackle climate, nature and inequality challenges across sectors and geographical regions.
Our member companies come from all business sectors and all major economies, representing a combined revenue of more than USD $8.5 trillion and 19 million employees. Our global network of almost 70 national business councils gives our members unparalleled reach across the globe. Since 1995, WBCSD has been uniquely positioned to work with member companies along and across value chains to deliver impactful business solutions to the most challenging sustainability issues.
Together, we are the leading voice of business for sustainability, united by our vision of creating a world in which 9+ billion people are living well, within planetary boundaries, by mid-century. Source
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Connecting with sustainable debt investors is a practical guide for companies seeking to engage fixed income investors on sustainability. Bondholders are long-term, downside-focused holders of a company’s debt, and sustainability risk is increasingly treated as credit risk: it shapes how investors assess an issuer’s ability to repay, and can influence cost of capital, demand at issuance and disclosure expectations.
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A coffee producer in Minas Gerais plants cover crops, switches to biological inputs, protects the springs on his farm, and comes through a drought with yields intact. None of that shows up when he walks into a bank to ask for a loan to fund the next round of improvements. The financial system is not yet fully consistent when it comes to recognizing or tracking regenerative agriculture, so the producer’s investment remains invisible on paper.
Em busca de um modelo viável para financiar paisagens regenerativas no Brasil
Um cafeicultor de Minas Gerais planta culturas de cobertura, migra para insumos biológicos, protege as nascentes da propriedade e atravessa uma seca sem perder produtividade. Mas nada disso aparece quando ele vai ao banco pedir um empréstimo para financiar a próxima etapa de melhorias. O sistema financeiro ainda não tem uma forma consistente de reconhecer ou registrar avanços na agricultura regenerativa, e por isso o investimento desse produtor permanece invisível no papel.
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