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.

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.

In the course of daily operations, all businesses impact and depend on ecosystems and the essential ecosystem services they provide. In fact it is hard to think of any economic activity that does not benefit from ecosystem services or in some way alter the ecosystems around it. Corporate ecosystem valuation refers to the use of ecosystem valuation by business where both ecosystem degradation and the benefits provided by ecosystem services are explicitly accounted for with the intention of informing and improving corporate decision-making.

"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."