Intern, Climate Action

  • Stageplaats
  • Amsterdam

WBCSD

The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) is a global community of over 225 of the world’s leading businesses driving systems transformation for a better world in which 9+ billion people can live well, within planetary boundaries, by mid-century. Together, we transform the systems we work in to limit the impact of the climate crisis, restore nature, and tackle inequality. 

We accelerate value chain transformation across key sectors and reshape the financial system to reward sustainable leadership and action through a lower cost of capital. Through the exchange of best practices, improving performance, accessing education, forming partnerships, and shaping the policy agenda, we drive progress in businesses and sharpen the accountability of their performance.

Job Overview

In this role, you will directly support the Advancing Climate Accounting and Standards and Member Engagement teams, which sit within the Climate Action Program.

Our WBCSD Climate Action program supports 100+ leading global companies from all sectors as they make progress on their mitigation, removals and adaptation journey. The program’s areas of action include climate mitigation, climate adaptation, carbon removals, and carbon accounting.

In this role you will be directly involved in supporting the development and adoption of GHG accounting and decarbonization guidance for businesses. The focus is on curating a space and providing technical support for our peer exchange amongst members to generate solutions and identify robust use cases for selected certificates as market-based instruments supporting sectoral transitions. This consists of both virtual and in-person working group sessions with a focus on creating robust and credible proposals for market-based accounting guidance.

Main Responsibilities

  • Supporting the administration of the WBCSD Alignment Group online platform (on the WBCSD Communities page) to increase user reach & engagement while expanding engagement capacity;
  • Supporting the organization of workstream online & in-person sessions, including coordination with members, WBCSD appointed experts, GHG Protocol staff;
  • Supporting the preparation of meeting presentations, and assisting with logistics;
  • Assisting with creating actionable outcomes from the WBCSD Alignment Group meetings (e.g., drafting technical proposals from the Alignment Group workshops/working groups), or from workstream sessions (e.g., summarizing key takeaways, and creating infographics or other visuals).
  • Editing & publishing content on the Alignment Group Platform.
  • Supporting stakeholder & content management process via Salesforce & excel master documents;
  • Coordinating with the communication teams to increase the reach of the content produced, on WBCSD social media and newsletters;
  • Support contact management in Salesforce and member registration
  • Support gathering member engagement data across the climate workstreams and update the relevant member engagement tools
  • Support on member/prospect briefing notes
  • Support member engagement coordination around global events
  • Gather input and coordinate tasks related to the Climate Action Digest
  • Helping to connect with other WBCSD projects, such as conducting ad-hoc research, coordinating meetings, and assisting with communications to ensure alignment;

 

Meer informatie/solliciteren: wbcsd.careers.hibob.com.