The WBCSD organizes much of its work into four Focus Areas chosen by the members: Energy & Climate, Development , The Business Role and Ecosystems. The Focus Area structure helps us to be more swift and agile in our responses to issues in the public debate, and to more easily form the bases for positions, messages and action. Each focus area consists of a Focus Area Core Team (FACT), working groups and workstreams.

FACTs, typically consisting of about a dozen CEOs, guide the focus areas and act as policy advisory boards. They meet at least once a year face-to-face and two to three times in telephone conferences. Each focus area is led by at least two co-chairs.

What we call the “working group” is the engine room of each focus area, the member company liaison delegates and outside experts who develop the intellectual capital and provide content (cases, expertise, opinions), create deliverables, shape and engage in advocacy, and take messages back to the companies. Each Focus Area has different workstreams examining different issues in the area.