Development Focus AreaOverview – August 2012

Overview

• About WBCSD

• Development – business role & contribution

• WBCSD Development Focus Area Objectives Structure Knowledge & advocacy products 2012 work program Engagement opportunities Key messages

About WBCSDA CEO-led organization of forward-thinking companies that galvanizes the global business

community to create a sustainable future for business, society and the environment

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n Kazakhstan BCSD

BCSD Pakistan n

n BCSD Mongolia

n BCSD Korea

BCSD Thailand n

BCSD Malaysia n

n BCSD Taiwan

BCSD Sri Lanka n

n Nippon Keidanren (Japan)

BCA Australia n

BCSD New Zealand n

n Vietnam BCSD

n Responsible Business Forum (Poland)

n Vernadsky Foundation (Russia)

BCSD UAE n

NHO (Norway) n

EpE (France) n

APEQUE (Algeria) n

NBI (South Africa) n

n econsense (Germany)

n BCSD TurkeyBCSD Portugal n

Business Europe (Belgium) n

n BCSD Croatia

BCSD Zimbabwe n

AEEC (Egypt) n

US BCSD n

The EXCEL Partnership (Canada) n

CGLI (USA/Canada) n

n Indonesia BCSD

China BCSD n

TERI BCSD India n n BEC (Hong Kong)

PBE (Philippines) n

CII India n

BCSD Austria n

FE BCSD Spain n FFA (Spain) n

FEMA (Mozambique) n

Danish CSBD n BCSD UK n

n SEV-BCSD Greece

n BCSD Hungary

PERU 2021 n

CentraRSE (Guatemala) n

n BCSD Venezuela

n BCSD Uruguay

uniRSE (Nicaragua) n

BCSD Mexico n

n BCSD Honduras

BCSD Ecuador n

n BCSD Colombia

BCSD Paraguay n

n BCSD Brazil BCSD Bolivia n

n BCSD Argentina

AED (Costa Rica) n

Accion RSE (Chile) n

IntegraRSE (Panama)n

BCSD El Salvador

n n BCSD Curaçao

WBCSD Regional Network

Development context

• Historic shift of economic and political power• Growth needed to reduce poverty and meet aspirations of growing middle classes in emerging economies • Current development path will lead to exponential increase of demand for energy and natural resources – growing pressure on world’s ecosystems • Need for a transition towards a more inclusive, low-carbon and resource efficient economy

The Economist, 6 August 2011

Business role in Development

• Business: Engine of economic growth and

employment, source of technology and innovation

Critical role in providing solutions towards transitioning to a more sustainable and equitable world

Social inclusion & inclusive growth

Resource efficiency (water, forests, etc.)

Low-carbon technologies

Read more in WBCSD’s“Business & Development” report

(2010)

The business case

Why should global business invest in sustainable solutions to poverty & development challenges?

• Business cannot succeed in societies that fail Stable and prosperous societies make for better

business opportunities

• Risk management License to operate, innovate and grow

• Business opportunities & growth markets Technological and infrastructural investments, inclusive

business

Development Focus Area – ObjectivesCreate awareness Providing thought leadership on the role of business in a changing geopolitical and economic context Promoting the WBCSD tools that enhance companies’ awareness and capacity to respond to development risks and opportunities

Advocate Advocating business messages and solutions at relevant international processes and regional initiatives Profiling business contributions to development and sharing best practice through WBCSD communications channels

Catalyze action Demonstrating leadership in action on the ground Implementing special initiatives, as requested by groups of member companies

Leadership: Development Focus Area Core Team (FACT)

Company

BG GroupBPBrisaGDF SuezGeneral Electric ITCMasisaSC JohnsonToyotaVodafone

FACT members

John GrantIain Conn Vasco de Mello Françoise GuichardJohn Rice Y.C. DeveshwarRoberto SalasSteven StanbrookDr. Fujio ChoMatthew Kirk

Chair

Working Group: 244 persons from 89companies and 21 Regional Network partners

Doing business with the poor: A Field Guide

Finding capital for sustainable

livelihoods businesses

A business guide to

development partners

Business for

Development

Promoting SMEs for

Sustainable Development

Doing Business with the World

Investing in a low-carbon

energy future

Measuring Impact

Framework

Mobility for Development

Inclusive Business blog

Inclusive Business

Alliance with SNV

Inclusive Business

Challenge

Inclusive Business in

Latin America

Inclusive Business and

the MDGs

2005 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011

Video library

Knowledge & advocacy products

2004

National Market

Participation Framework

Business & Development

Monthlypublic

e-newsletter

2012

ICT: An enabler for

inclusive business solutions

Business solutions to

enable energy access for all

Steering committee

(FACT)

WBCSD members

Regional Network

Inclusive Business

Initiatives

Awareness

Advocacy

2012 work program

Action

Development Focus Area

Tools

Thought Leadership

Communi-cationsAdvocacy

Thought leadership

Platform for leading-edge thinking and messaging on business and development

• Completed: Advocacy piece “Business &

Development” (July 2010) Access to clean, reliable and

affordable energy sources (January 2012) ICTs as an enabler for inclusive business

solutions (August 2012)

ToolsPlatform to access WBCSD tools to enhance companies’ awareness

and capacity to respond to development risks and opportunities

• Measuring Impact Framework Measuring and assessing impacts to inform investment decisions

• Inclusive Business Challenge Challenges, drivers and principles of Inclusive Business

• National Market Participation Framework For dialogue between companies and governments on

realizing shared interests in enhancing local supplier competitiveness

• Forthcoming: Summary & analysis of available methodologies

to measure business impact on development (by end of 2012)

Inclusive Business

Platform to support local initiatives and broker ventures in cooperation with WBCSD Regional Network partners and their members

• Completed: Alliance WBCSD-SNV Netherlands Development Organization (2006-

2010) – brokered 40 ventures in Latin America

• Latest initiatives: New blog www.inclusive-business.org Latin American Inclusive Business Leaders

Network: virtual platform convening 150+ executives and 14 Regional Network partners – promotes and facilitates advocacy, exchanges, and learning www.reni-wbcsd.org

Asia: program being set up in collaboration with AsianDevelopment Bank, a.o. India, Vietnam, Philippines, Indonesia

Africa: focus on advocacy events in southern Africa

Information and communication technology – An enabler for inclusive business solutions

Displays best practice cases across industry sectors, and highlights opportunities for and barriers to achieving further scale

Final output of WBCSD Technology Enablers Initiative (2011)Platform for companies from different industry

sectors to explore opportunities for catalyzing inclusive business models leveraging ICT

Initiatives – 1

Platform for companies to launch development-related projects under WBCSD umbrella

• Completed: Mobility for Development initiative

Sustainable mobility solutions forrapidly growing cities in the developing world

Lessons and barriers to progress in 4 cities: Bangalore,Dar es Salaam, São Paulo, Shanghai

Initiatives – 2

• Ongoing: Access to Energy initiative

Maximizing the business contribution to expanding access to clean, reliable & affordable energy

Examines 3 key opportunity areas: o Innovative business modelso Appropriate regulatory frameworkso Maximization of the impact of

development and climate finance mechanisms

Provides business voice in the international dialogue on how to achieve universal energy access effectively and efficiently

Business solutions to enable energy access for all

• Explores: How public and development finance

mechanisms can be specifically designed to leverage additional private investment

How partnerships and cross-sector approaches can accelerate the wide provision of access to energy

How business model innovation can be nurtured

• Features 19 company case studies

Advocacy

Platform aimed at accessing and influencing relevant international processes and initiatives

• Global processes Rio+20, focus on access to energy & poverty reduction Sustainable Energy for All Campaign Poverty Environment Partnership Energy+ Partnership

• Regional initiatives Inter-American Development Bank – Opportunities for

the Majority Asian Development Bank – Energy for All Partnership Energy Access Partnership

Communications

Platform to profile leading edge business practices and contributions to development

• Examples: Article submissions to external publications

(The Guardian, European Business Review, Africa Energy Yearbook, etc.)

WBCSD website – news stories, case studies, etc.

Monthly Business & Development e-newsletter – 18’000 subscribers to date

Inclusive Business blog www.inclusive-business.org

Engagement opportunities• Identify new inclusive business opportunities by joining WBCSD’s activities in Latin America, Asia and Africa

• Shape the Access to Energy agenda during the 2012 International Year of Sustainable Energy for All

• Advocate business inputs to international development processes and events, including Rio +20

• Use WBCSD’s impact measurement tools and test the national market participation framework for dialogue with governments

• Profile your company’s contributions to development through WBCSD’s communications channels

Key messages

• Business is a solution provider to critical development challenges.

• Business is the major source of capital for developing countries.

• The sustainable development of developing countries is a business opportunity.

• Business cannot succeed in societies that fail.

• Inclusive business equals a win-win for business and society.

• The business contribution to enhance access to clean, reliable and affordable energy can be scaled through partnerships that support business model innovation as well as the creation of enabling policy frameworks and financing mechanisms.

• What gets measured gets done.

• Business cannot solve poverty, but poverty will not be solved without business.

The detailed Action Plan for 2012 is available in the online members-only

area

http://www.wbcsd.org/work-program/development.aspx