When we talk Sustainability we think Clean Growth.

Sustainability

When we talk Sustainability we think Clean Growth. Growing our economy, slashing carbon emissions, championing a green recovery as we race to net zero and beyond. Sustainability now is about jobs, health, education, commercial viability, inclusive growth, an equitable society. It is about living well, within the boundaries of our planet.

Delivering this requires collaboration and partnering, the brightest minds and most innovative businesses coming together. Like our parent organisation, WBCSD, we are committed to making more sustainable organisations, defining new opportunities, value creation, positively shaping place and communities.

The un sustainability goals (sdgs)

The UN Sustainable Development Goals define the global agenda to 2030 as a powerful framework to act and build partnerships around a common vision. Since the launch of the SDGs in 2015, it has been widely recognised that business through meaningful partnerships is core in delivering the sustainable growth agenda.

SDGs supersede Social Value and evolve ESG, encompassing everything that is at the heart of sustainability, green recovery and clean growth. Mainstreaming the SDGs will drive a green recovery, create value from new sectors, which we believe should be integral to every business and development or service decision taken. This is about inclusive growth, opportunity and defining a green economy, shaping what a green collar job looks like, seeking to identify who the biggest influencers are – positive and negative - and explore how implementing the SDGs will deliver new enviro-economic opportunities, both in the UK and on a global stage.

Sustainable development

UKBCSD is about sustainable development in its widest sense and at all scales. Technical innovation, manufacturing, smart construction, renewable energy and design…our overriding motivation as an organisation is to align the many leading industry solutions, innovators and tangible approaches that collectively deliver and hold the ring on sustainable development.

Our members exchange knowledge, R&D, share test-beds and innovation to positively disrupt and shape new opportunities, supply chains and deliver material change. This is future-proofing growth and creating the environment to fulfil the diverse demands of growing populations and economies, in balance with the environment.

Organisations do not operate in a bubble, global challenges today and tomorrow are complex. Facing issues as diverse as climate change to post pandemic recovery, transition to net zero and beyond are no longer legacy issues, but core sustainability challenges. Across the globe, integrating sustainability into organisational, place, economic thinking and application is seen as critical to viable growth. Our network unlocks this potential - for organisations, for place and people.

Global strength

UKBCSD is part of the WBCSD Global Network, one of sixty such organisations across the world, all of which are working to promote successful, sustainable business.

Together the WBCSD and its Global Network partners create the global-local linkages necessary to promote business solutions for a sustainable world. Like UKBCSD, its members come from a position of collaboration, innovation and knowledge-exchange, working in line with the Sustainable Development Goals.

“By 2025, WBCSD’s success will be defined by the commitment of 250 diverse and influential companies taking actions that enable 9+ billion people to live well within the boundaries of the planet.”

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