Approach
We employ several strategies, including:
Alliances
We convene roundtable alliances that bring relevant actors together around an issue, such as over-exploitation of fish stocks, to discuss and create an approach to bring about change, and with assigned responsibilities.
Bilateral partnerships
We form bilateral partnerships with companies that have recognised the business value of sustainability. We jointly seek solutions and find the levers that will shift the sustainability performance of the sector. Many of these businesses demonstrate that sustainable business is good business.
Research
WWF is a science-based organisation and research is one of core competencies. Our research is commissioned independently and in cooperation with business. Ground breaking publications such as South Africa’s first full life cycle analysis of a food product and the renewable energy report, 50% by 2030, aid in deepening insight and identifying potential areas for transformational change. Click here for some of the recent positions papers and research publications of relevance to our work with business.
Alongside WWF-SA’s conservation work, the organisation partners with companies around common objectives to find sustainability solutions that meet business and environmental goals.
The influential power of business and industry, combined with WWF’s scientific knowledge, ecosystems thinking and neutral convening ability, can help to transform markets and bring about sustainable development. To find out more, explore these stories of winning partnerships in the key focus areas of Finance, Food and Climate Change.
We convene roundtable alliances that bring relevant actors together around an issue, such as over-exploitation of fish stocks, to discuss and create an approach to bring about change, and with assigned responsibilities.
Bilateral partnerships
We form bilateral partnerships with companies that have recognised the business value of sustainability. We jointly seek solutions and find the levers that will shift the sustainability performance of the sector. Many of these businesses demonstrate that sustainable business is good business.
Research
WWF is a science-based organisation and research is one of core competencies. Our research is commissioned independently and in cooperation with business. Ground breaking publications such as South Africa’s first full life cycle analysis of a food product and the renewable energy report, 50% by 2030, aid in deepening insight and identifying potential areas for transformational change. Click here for some of the recent positions papers and research publications of relevance to our work with business.
Our history of addressing business change
Winning PartnershipsAlongside WWF-SA’s conservation work, the organisation partners with companies around common objectives to find sustainability solutions that meet business and environmental goals.
The influential power of business and industry, combined with WWF’s scientific knowledge, ecosystems thinking and neutral convening ability, can help to transform markets and bring about sustainable development. To find out more, explore these stories of winning partnerships in the key focus areas of Finance, Food and Climate Change.
Working collaboratively