The Corporate Ecosystem Services Review - Guidelines for Identifying Business Risks and Opportunities Arising from Ecosystem Change The Corporate Ecosystem Services Review (ESR) consists of a structured methodology that helps managers proactively develop strategies to manage business risks and opportunities arising from their company’s dependence and impact on ecosystems.

This new publication by the WBCSD Development Focus Area shows how companies can contribute to global sustainable development through their core businesses. It offers a business perspective on key challenges and opportunities for the development of poor countries, as well as key messages for companies and governments on how to promote sustainable business solutions that benefit the poor and the societies and environments in which they live.

This Study highlights opportunities to promote green building know-how and technologies as the WBCSD pushes for zero net energy construction worldwide through its Energy Efficiency in Buildings (EEB) project. Zero net energy buildings will reduce demand by design, be highly efficient and generate at least as much energy as they consume.

The journey towards sustainability requires that companies must find innovative ways to make profits and at the same time extend the traditional boundaries of business to include the environmental and social dimensions, a process known as " the Triple Bottom Line ", which introduces the process of " Life Cycle Thinking "

Entitled Markets for Ecosystem Services – New Challenges and Opportunities for Business and the Environment, the report shows how at a fundamental level, all economies and businesses depend directly or indirectly on the conservation of biodiversity and the sustainable supply of ecosystem services. The perspective paper is intended for both the business and conservation communities, in an effort to establish a shared vision of market-based approaches to nature conservation.

Policy Directions to 2050: A business contribution to the dialogues on cooperative action asserts that the only way to combat climate change is through decisive, concerted and sustained actions between governments, businesses and consumers.

The WBCSD's Regional Network - A Global Business Alliance for Sustainable Development While the WBCSD makes the business case on the world stage, its Regional Network helps shape the sustainable development agenda at the local and regional levels. This brochure is designed to give a general flavor of the scope and diversity of the Regional Network’s activities through a small selection of initiatives.

In 2040, one-quarter of Americans and nearly one-half of Italians and Japanese will be over 65. These demograhpic trends will have large and growing impacts on health, healthcare and business: on employment, workforce age, productivity, benefit plans and costs, markets, products and tax schemes. This publication describes ten key health topics, including disease, environment and health, prevention and personal responsibility, health systems and information technology. Each topic is illustrated in a 2-page vignette, which provides a series of facts, trends and implications for business.

WBCSD member companies have a combined annual turnover of more than 5 trillion USD, and their products and services touch the lives of about 2.5 billion people every day. Imagine the possibilities if even a portion of this business energy is harnessed to transform the lives of the world's poorest people. This premise forms the basis for Business for Development, a new WBCSD report that makes the business case for sustainable development by illustrating how the private sector is taking an active role in the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals.

Perspectives - Corporate responsibility and business success in China To raise sustainability awareness in the business community in China, the Young Managers Team 2004 developed a presentation pack on sustainable development. The information in the background briefing, together with specific briefings provided throughout the pack, should enable any individual to deliver an introduction to the topic for non-expert audiences.

Produced in partnership with the International Business Leaders Forum, the guide aims to introduce the business community to potential partners in the development community. It is a first port of call for managers who are interested in working with a development organization, but unsure of how to begin.

The Guide explores how several companies are starting to break into an untapped market of over four billion potential customers in ways that benefit both the poor and the company.

In the past years, the typical corporate risk profile has been expanded to include everything from political and social instability to brand protection and sabotage. The report aims to contribute to the debate about the changing nature of risk by looking at how the global risk environment has evolved.

What is the present state of sustainable finance? Who is actively involved in the sustainable finance agenda? How can the ideals of sustainable development be incorporated into the business practices and models of the finance sector? How can capital markets support the “people, planet, prosperity” ethic? These questions and more are addressed in the UNEP FI report entitled ‘Values to Value – A Global Dialogue on Sustainable Finance’.

This booklet provides information to forestry and land use audiences, principally in developing countries, who want to find out more about the CDM and how it affects their activities. It introduces the existing policy and regulatory framework of the CDM. It offers guidance on the eligibility of different project activities. It lays out what countries can do to prepare for CDM in the land use sector. And it looks to the future, providing insight into the wider implications and future developments of the CDM

This unique learning tool gives a complete picture of the concept of sustainable development. In six stages, it helps users better manage the deluge of information on sustainable development.

The seven keys to success -- innovate, practice eco-efficiency, move from stakeholder dialogues to partnerships for progress, provide and inform consumer choice, improve market framework conditions, establish the worth of the earth, make the market work for everyone -- are illustrated in 30 case studies.

The first item in the WBCSD trilogy for the World Summit on Sustainable Development, this document is a forward-looking statement that identifies building blocks toward a sustainable society

Signals of Change : Business progress towards sustainable development. This document shows, five years after the Rio Summit, and based on WBCSD member experience, that there has been a paradigm shift in the way business does business.