The report, A vision for sustainable consumption envisions what sustainable consumption could look like in 2050, and how business could help to establish it in the mainstream.

Innovating for Green Growth The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) has a track record for facilitating collaboration between companies and promoting best practice sharing. In this publication, WBCSD members share their understanding of the environmental challenges at stake and the role of the private sector in low-carbon technology research, development and demonstration (RD&D).

The Climate Investment Funds (CIF) are a collaborative effort between the multilateral development banks (MDBs)2 and countries to help developing countries transform to low carbon and climate-resilient development.

In its latest report on Enabling frameworks for technology diffusion , the WBCSD puts forward six
key elements to enhance investments and sales of low-carbon technologies in developing
countries.

In this book Professor Horrigan brings together the many facets of, and perspectives on, the concept [of CSR]. . . and he places them in the context of the development of thought in the crossover from the 20th to the 21st century.

Why should business care? The simple answer is that ecosystems services underpin all business operations in some way, and if they are compromised, this could seriously challenge companies.

Emerging and developing countries will be the source of the majority of greenhouse gas emissions in the future. While some people in many of these countries have experienced triple digit increases in income over the last ten years, many still live on less than US$ 2 a day and rely on traditional means of lighting, heating and  transport and have less capacity to adapt to the negative aspects of climate change. Energy, climate change and development are inextricably linked; if we don't tackle them together we won't win the battle against any of them.

The United Nations organisations are responsible for an impressive number of meetings each year, ranging from small meetings of 10 people, up to large events with several thousand participants. These meetings take place in all parts of the world and in regions varying greatly in terms of environmental priorities, experience and infrastructure.

New modeling by the WBCSD shows how energy use in buildings can be cut by 60 percent by
2050 - essential to meeting global climate change targets - but this will require immediate action
to transform the building sector. This is the central message of the report from the WBCSD's
four-year, $15 million Energy Efficiency in Buildings (EEB) research project, the most rigorous study ever conducted on the subject.

"What a way to run the world" is the title of the WBCSD's Annual Review 2008. The theme was chosen almost a year ago, well before the financial meltdown proved just how badly the world was being run. As WBCSD's Chairman, Samuel DiPiazza Jr. points out: "economic crises must remind us that sustainable development is not just about environmental or social issues but also about sound economic development."

This report argues that recycling concrete reduces natural resource exploitation and waste going to landfill. It asks for an ultimate goal of ?zero landfill? of concrete.