What's Next and Key Resources

The urgency is immediate. Climate impacts are already hitting balance sheets, while short-termism remains the primary barrier to progress. At the same time, the narrative must evolve: sustainability must be framed in terms of competitiveness, efficiency, and value creation. Companies that fail to translate sustainability into financial logic risk losing competitiveness, capital access, and strategic optionality. Solutions exist, but scaling them requires sharper prioritization and stronger alignment with financial performance. The next 2–5 years will be decisive for proving what delivers measurable value. WBCSD will continue delivering a platform that supports members in navigating the challenges ahead, enabling meaningful collaboration and equipping you with the tools and insights needed to translate sustainability into clear business value.

Key WBCSD resources

Reporting Matters 2025

Redefining corporate performance and moving beyond compliance

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Business Breakthrough Barometer 202

Tracking where business outpaces policy

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The Business Action Bank

The largest open repositories of credible sustainable solutions implemented by companies worldwide

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Emissions Reduction Accelerator (ERA)

Our flagship mechanism for value-chain decarbonization

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Global Circularity Protocol for Business (GCP)

The world's first global, voluntary framework for measuring, managing, and communicating circularity impacts

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The Partnership for Carbon Transparency (PACT)

The only globally recognized solution already enabling comparable verified product-level carbon data calculation and exchange at scale

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Physical Risk Handbook

Putting real-economy climate risk on the CEO agenda

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Avoided Emissions v2.0

Setting a new global standard

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Education offer

Equipping leaders and teams to deliver the implementation agenda

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Safeguarding Sustainability - A Dynamic Risk Assessment for the Sustainability Agenda

Understand the most influential risks, where collective action matters most, and how business leaders can safeguard sustainability in an uncertain world

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Tackling inequality: An agenda for business action

Provides the global business community with a clear and compelling case for business efforts to tackle inequality, as well as a common and holistic agenda for private sector action.

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Executive Action Brief for A Just Transition

Provides the global business community with a clear and compelling case for business efforts to tackle inequality, as well as a common and holistic agenda for private sector action.

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Soft Commodities Forum 2025 Annual Report

The 2025 Annual Report of the Soft Commodities Forum (SCF) outlines the shared commitment to decouple soft commodity production from deforestation and native vegetation conversion. The Soft Commodities specific focus is on Brazil’s Cerrado biome, one of the world’s most biodiverse and climate-critical regions..

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Trusted Fields, Connected Futures: The Case for Global Field ID

An Onix-enabled digital public good for agriculture and land use transformation.

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Coming later in 2026

Business Breakthrough Barometer 2026 (June) Reporting Matters 2026 (November)

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