Sustainability

Our partnership with WBCSD

The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) is a global, CEO-led community of over 200 businesses working collectively to accelerate the system transformations needed for a net zero, nature positive, and more equitable future.

As a knowledge partner to WBCSD, McKinsey Sustainability brings deep subject-matter expertise, advanced analytical insights and tools, and advisory support to the partnership. Our collaboration with WBCSD helps businesses and other organizations across sectors prepare for the transition towards a more sustainable and inclusive future.

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Driving transparency of Scope 3 emissions

Businesses are increasingly pledging to reduce Scope 3 emissions generated in their upstream and downstream value chain, but transparency remains challenging. WBCSD’s Partnership for Carbon Transparency (PACT) is convening a broad, cross-industry coalition to develop guidance and technology platforms to help companies access and share Scope 3 emissions data along the value chain. McKinsey is the knowledge partner for this effort.

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Assessing strategic resilience through the climate transition

WBCSD has launched a climate scenario tool to support companies in the food, agriculture, and forest products sectors in assessing climate-related risks and opportunities. WBCSD has also created the Energy Climate Scenario Catalog to help businesses conduct strategic climate resilience assessments and explore transition pathways. Vivid Economics by McKinsey is a knowledge partner for these efforts.

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Pathways to decarbonize the transport and logistics sector

A consortium led by WBCSD and Smart Freight Centre (SFC) is developing guidance to help companies reliably quantify and manage end-to-end greenhouse gas emissions, at a granular level, from their transport and logistics activities. This effort builds on the Global Logistics Emissions Council Framework developed by SFC and other organizations. McKinsey is providing analytical insights and advisory support for this work.

Reaching net zero—what will it take?

In this episode of the McKinsey Talks Operations podcast, host Daphne Luchtenberg speaks with John Revess, senior director of Net Zero Transformation at the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), and with McKinsey’s Ruth Heuss and Peter Spiller on building sustainable operations on the path to net zero. The following is an edited version of their conversation.

Peter Spiller

PartnerFrankfurt

Advises companies and business leaders across industries on the development and implementation of environmentally-sustainable operations and ESG strategy, including carbon accounting and tracking, supplier sustainability transformations, and supply chain decarbonization

Celine Cherel-Bonnemaison

Associate PartnerParis

Combines product development and procurement excellence with a focus on environmental sustainability to optimize large companies’ profitability and environmental outcomes