In anticipation of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) in June, the brochure focuses on the progress made over the past two decades and the priorities in moving forward.

Business solutions to enable energy access for all is the first major publication of the WBCSD Access to Energy initiative.

The Product Life Cycle Standard enables companies to measure the greenhouse gas emissions of an individual product. Covering materials, manufacturing, use and disposal, the product standard will help companies improve and design new products, and provide insights for more informed consumer choices.

This publication calls for public policies that make the best use of the forestry sector's carbon profile and carbon cycle. It proposes six key points that those responsible for devising forestry and carbon policies need to know, and it highlights the carbon opportunities and challenges facing the sector.

A group of global businesses have worked with Tilburg to find ideas that can accelerate progress toward the city’s climate neutral vision.

This report provides insights on the potential and key drivers for energy efficiency within the power sector value chain - generation, grids, commercial, residential and industrial use of electricity- including nine business cases and policy recommendations

The Corporate Value Chain Standard reveals opportunities for companies to make more sustainable decisions about their activities and the products they produce, buy and sell. Large and small companies can look strategically at greenhouse gas emissions across their value chain, showing them where to focus limited resources to have the biggest impacts.

In the first engagement of the UII cities project, business and city experts identified six areas for immediate action and three longer term ideas to advance Turku's sustainability program. The ideas offer new solutions and enhancements to existing activities that will accelerate and promote the
city's sustainable development.

The Green Race is On is the title of the WBCSD's Annual Review 2009. It is only in the past five  years that thoughtful companies have begun to understand the vast opportunities of moving toward a sustainable world, and that science has made clear the global catastrophes inherent in un-sustainable development.

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).

What are the links between business and development? And what is the business role and opportunity in addressing sustainability challenges of developing countries and emerging economies? These are the key questions addressed in this WBCSD report.

Business and ecosystem services are inextricably linked. Corporations not only impact
ecosystems and the services they provide, but also depend upon them.