The Japanese business community is strongly represented among WBCSD’s membership and plays a leading role in advancing the organization’s work globally.
WBCSD’s Japanese member companies account for nearly 10% of the entire membership globally. Japanese members have participated as core members of WBCSD since its inception just after the Rio Earth Summit in 1992, and have continued to actively join and lead global voices on sustainable development and the role of business in creating a world in which 9+ billion people can live well, 在地球范围内. 在一起, the Japanese members represent a broad cross-section of industries and offer a range of important perspectives that enable WBCSD’s work programs to leverage a variety of pioneering technological know-how and innovation in the field of sustainability.
More broadly, WBCSD works closely with the Japan Business Federation (日本经济团体联合会), supporting its work engaging the wider Japanese business community around key sustainability initiatives and providing a global platform for Japanese sustainable business leadership. 2021年5月，任WBCSD主席 & 首席执行官彼得·巴克发表了演讲 2050年正规博彩十大网站:是时候转型了 to the 日本经济团体联合会's Corporate Behavior and SDGs Committee, generating enthusiastic dialogue with the 250 management members of Japanese companies who participated. Furthermore, in 2019 the 日本经济团体联合会 and WBCSD jointly released a Japanese edition of WBCSD’s CEO Guide to Human Rights, providing Japanese-speaking business leaders with a narrative and a set of arguments to engage peers in a dialogue on the role of business in ensuring respect for human rights and contributing to realizing the Sustainable 发展 Goals (SDGs).
WBCSD’s Japanese members help WBCSD to drive forward transformation across key economic systems, in alignment with the work in Japan around 社会5.0, which is a vision for the near future proposed by the Japanese government. 社会5.0 imagines the next stage in the evolution of human society, following its previous stages as a hunter-gatherer society (社会 1.农业社会(社会2).工业社会(社会).0)，信息社会(社会4).0). WBCSD's Japanese member companies are key to 日本经济团体联合会's strategy of 社会5.正规博彩十大网站排名目标为0.
WBCSD has also worked closely with the Japanese government on a number of initiatives in recent years. In 2019 and 2020 the organization collaborated with the Government’s Ministry of Economy Trade and Industry (日本经济产业省)共同召开 TCFD峰会, bringing together hundreds of leaders from the business and investment communities with a view to accelerating progress on climate-related financial disclosure. WBCSD has also been a strong supporter of and contributor to Prime Minister Abe’s 绿色创新峰会. WBCSD is also honored to regularly participate in important Japanese fora such as the Science and Technology in 社会 论坛 (STS 论坛), and the Innovation for Cool Earth Forum (ICEF).
除了, WBCSD regularly partners with the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) to promote the role companies can play in driving progress on sustainability, 强调创新的必要性, mindset shifts and metrics to deliver long-term prosperity and resilience in line with the Sustainable 发展 Goals. Recent highlights of the partnership include IGES’ engagement in the content development as well as the Japanese translation of the Council’s 2050年正规博彩十大网站:是时候转型了, and the participation of senior WBCSD representatives during the annual International Forum for Sustainable Asia and the Pacific (ISAP)，由IGES组织.
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