Accelerating Sustainable Business Practices, Ambition and Action | World Resources Institute

Our Challenge

Business influence on governments, consumers and global value chains impact ecosystems and lives around the world. The private sector can be a force for good, innovating and scaling solutions to the world’s toughest challenges. Or it can perpetuate systems that profit off outdated practices and threaten our collective future.  

While corporate sustainability has made tremendous progress over the past 20 years, there’s still much further to go. The global population is projected to reach 8.5 billion people by 2030, and our production and consumption models aren’t efficient enough to meet our needs.

Transformative business models and technological innovation need to accelerate. From the foundation of evidence and transparency, business must also follow through on their words with aligned policy advocacy, multilateral cooperation and outcomes.