Business Action

Join us for a webinar to learn how you, as a B Corp, can stay within the Race to Zero. 

The Race to Zero was busy in February translating material across six UN languages, putting a call out for case studies, and running Expert Peer Review Group & Partner workshops on the campaign’s criteria.

A nature-positive future holds unlimited opportunities for businesses to both mitigate risk and explore new products, markets or business models, argue Sharon Thorne Global Chair, Deloitte & Elizabeth Mrema, Executive Secretary, United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity.

Developing countries and emerging markets can only implement climate action by integrating it with other SDGs within a framework of a holistic approach, argues UN Climate Change High-Level Champion for Egypt and UN Special Envoy on Financing 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda, Dr. Mahmoud Mohieldin.

Race to Zero member, Interface, a global commercial flooring company specializing in carbon negative carpet tiles and resilient flooring, shares how the company looks to nature to inspire innovative solutions to make business more sustainable.

We need to make a critical mindset shift to build capacity for justice and regeneration, says Dr Sally Uren, Forum for the Future CEO.

Humanity is facing a climate emergency. Nature has the power to help — but we must protect, manage and restore its ability to do so.

This year the focus for Race to Zero will be supporting the implementation of robust net zero criteria, driving systems transformation, and activating policy.

Watch the trailer of Future Forward, The Climate Pledge’s character-driven documentary series pealing back the curtain on corporate innovations and climate action.

Rethinking how to share, occupy and run the spaces we inhabit, chief sustainability officer at Johnson Controls, Katie McGinty, walks us through smart, efficient and eco-friendly ways to decarbonize buildings.

By coming together and being bold in the face of risk, we can revolutionize the role of CFO and strengthen climate resilience in operations, supply chains and the market, argues WEF CFO, Julien Gattoni.

UN Climate Change High-Level Champions for COP27 and COP28, Dr. Mahmoud Mohieldin and Her Excellency Ms. Razan Al Mubarak utilized Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week (ADSW) to build on progress made at COP27 within the non-state actor (NSA) community. 

The first major global sustainability event to take place since COP27, Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week, will open this week with the aim of consolidating climate action in the run up to COP28.

Five new retail and business associations announced today during the closing day of the fifteenth United Nations Biodiversity Conference COP15  pledges to become Accelerators for the Race to Zero. 

COP27 High-Level Champion, Dr Mahmoud Mohieldin & CBD Action Agenda Champion for Nature and People, Manuel Pulgar Vidal underline the importance – for climate and all of humanity – of a robust agreement for nature.

The Race to Zero explains why action by non-State actors alone is not sufficient to keep global warming to 1.5C, and why we need an acceleration of the right kind of policies, standards and regulations. 

Race to Resilience partner, Scale for Resilience discusses the significance of COP15 and the integration of nature into resilience strategies.

At COP15, 85 organisations call on world leaders to right the ship for the ocean and its biodiversity.

Race to Resilience partner, ORRAA is working with Tanzanian NGO AquaFarms Organization (AFO) to enhance the resilience of coastal communities around Dar-es-Salaam, by establishing new sustainable sources of income from the rehabilitation of mangrove forests.

Here are just some of the highlights of Race to Zero’s main activities at COP27.

COP27 High-Level Champion for Climate Action, Mahmoud Mohieldin’s speech at the closing event, COP27 Action Agenda: Progress & Priorities, which wrapped-up a two week programme of over 50 events.