SustainAbility S trategic management consultancy and think-tank dedicated to promoting the business case for sustainable development. It seeks to find those areas of synergy where trade, environment and development can be mutually beneficial, and to help policy makers exploit those opportunities. It seeks to identify areas of conflict among the three policy spheres, and help find ways to minimize them. And it seeks to increase civil society's understanding of the issues, and create mechanisms of openness by which that understanding can help make better policy. In keeping with IISD's focus on North-South issues, the Trade Program has a special emphasis on the problems and concerns of developing countries in the trade and sustainable development debates.
Site focuses on how social and economic development objectives are related to trade.
Maintained by the Economic Development Institute of the World bank and the World Trade Organization. World Business Council for Sustainable Development Coalition of 122 international companies united by a shared commitment to the environment and to the principles of economic growth and sustainable development. Its members are drawn from 34 countries and more than 20 major industrial sectors.