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New report launched on global ESG standards

Business at OECD launches new report on global ESG standards. BASF, Bayer, and Telefónica provided case studies on their experiences and insights.

Business at OECD highlights that ESG reporting today operates within a fragmented environment of overlapping standards and regulations. This fragmentation imposes high and uneven burdens on companies.

While sustainability disclosures are increasingly essential for investors and public trust, the lack of international alignment across frameworks, definitions, and time-lines creates a series of risks that go well beyond administrative inconvenience.

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Key business messages for the 2025 OECD Ministerial Council Meeting

Leading the Way provides key messages for the 2025 OECD Ministerial Council Meeting, encouraging governments towards resilient, inclusive, sustainable prosperity through rules-based trade, investment, and innovation.

Business at OECD outlines a number of points, including calling on governments to actively re-inforce open markets, and global rules-based trading system.

Business at OECD also underlines the importance of focusing on competitiveness, which also required a level playing field.

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International policy developments are lowering growth and investment expectations for business

The Spring Edition of Business at OECD's 2025 Economic Policy Survey highlights a deteriorating business sentiment, with international policy developments emerging as an important source of concern.

Geopolitical uncertainty, trade and investment barriers, and supply chain disruptions are also highlighted as top constraints for business activity.

Business encourages further investment in local regions to stimulate growth

Business at OECD provides several recommendations for the 2025 OECD Regional Development Policy Ministerial Meeting in Poland.

Business at OECD actively encourages investing in infrastructure, accelerating digitalisation, streamlining multi-level governance and regulation, developing regional skills and workforce, and supporting local entrepreneurship and SMEs.

Business diplomacy for competitive economies

With over 60 years of experience connecting the business community with the OECD and its governments, Business at OECD (BIAC) advocates for policies that enable the private sector to pursue economic growth, development, and societal prosperity. Business at OECD's global network spans over 55 national business and employer bodies that appoint multinational corporations and small businesses from all sectors into our strategic efforts with the OECD.

Business at OECD connects business and government representatives daily through strategic and policy meetings. Business at OECD aims to shape the OECD’s initiatives to promote competitive economies and better business for a sustainable future.

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years of business advocacy

1962

year of establishment

30+

policy groups

10+

million companies

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The policy groups bring together business executives from over 55 countries and from different corporate functions at global levels. These groups collectively build positions on policy initiatives that the OECD and governments are addressing for international and local implementation.

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countries have endorsed the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises on Responsible Business Conduct

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80%

of employment in shortage occupations is highly skilled

Learn more about our activities for consumer policy, digital policy, innovation, and technology.

70%

of the OECD's member countries have implemented digital government strategies

Discover our work on China, development, Latin America, the Caribbean, and Southeast Asia.

30%

of the companies in the Fortune Global 500 list are now from emerging markets

Learn more about our work on biotechnology, chemicals, environment, energy, and nanotechnology.

30%

of total electricity generation in many of the OECD's member countries come from renewable sources

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70%

of global tax debt is unlikely to be recovered under current systems

Explore our work on competition, economic policy, finance, governance, regulation, SMEs, and entrepreneurship.

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50 to 60%

of total value added, and are a main source of employment, innovation, and local resilience come from SMEs.

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27.8%

increase in the number of people affected by food insecurity in the OECD's member countries

Explore our work on export credits, illicit trade, investment, infrastructure, and trade.

1 billion +

people lifted out of poverty globally since 1990 due to the expansion of open and integrated markets, trade liberalisation, and global investment flows

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