Solution Accelerators
Purpose:
To bring smaller groups of members together for intensive, focused collaborations that produce practical solutions and collective progress on specific issues of interest.
How:
WBCSD’s Action Themes aim to provide all members with access to the priority areas where collective action creates the greatest business value. The themes feed each other: solutions create evidence, evidence builds business cases, and business cases win investment, so each deliverable helps drive integrated value.
To provide the opportunity for smaller groups of members to co-develop specific solutions, we facilitate Solution Accelerators. These may be identified by Communities or by work in the Action Themes. The Accelerators help members pursue important, time-bound work that requires deeper, more focused collaboration. They complement the Action Themes and are activated when a group of members proposes a clearly defined area of work and commits the funding and resources needed to pursue it. The work may explore an issue in greater depth, test solutions, address implementation challenges, or accelerate action in a particular sector, value chain or region. Several legacy initiatives will continue as part of the Solution Accelerator portfolio in 2027. New Solution Accelerators will require a clear purpose, sufficient member interest, the necessary funding and resources, and defined deliverables within a practical timeline. Solution Accelerator outputs will be shared back with all members so others can benefit from what is learned.
Learn more about these planned 2027 deliverables in the September release:
- One Planet Business for Biodiversity (OP2B): a collaborative initiative working on regenerative landscape investment projects in Europe.
- Soft Commodities Forum (SCF): a collaborative initiative working on deforestation-free soy traceability in Brazil.
- Critical Materials Collective: a collaborative initiative working to develop specific secondary material value chains in targeted markets.
- Landscape Action Brazil (LAB): a collaborative initiative working on landscape-specific regenerative action and investment in Brazil (if funded).
- India Landscape Action (ILA): a collaborative initiative working on landscape-specific regenerative action and investment in India (if funded).
- 50L Home: a system-change initiative working to transform and scale residential water systems and to significantly decrease water and energy use in homes with pilots in Los Angeles, London and other major cities.
- Natural Climate Solutions Alliance (NCSA): a collaborative initiative that brings together businesses, NGOs and solution providers to promote and scale investments in natural climate solutions, to combat climate change and to protect, manage and restore ecosystem health.
- Partnership for Carbon Transparency (PACT): a collaborative framework to help businesses improve transparency and enable the consistent calculation and exchange of product-level emissions data across all value chains and industries.
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