UN Global Compact: Mobilizing Business to Change the World

Nov 18, 2015 3:30 PM ET

Originally published on Thomson Reuters.

Over the past decades, the United Nations has undertaken the painstaking work of convening governments and urging them to take a serious look at how to address the urgent environmental, social, and governance challenges our world faces. And while we have come a long way, much remains to be done.

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About the UN Global Compact 
The United Nations Global Compact is a call to companies everywhere to voluntarily align their operations and strategies with ten universally accepted principles in the areas of human rights, labour, environment and anti-corruption, and to take action in support of UN goals and issues. The UN Global Compact is a leadership platform for the development, implementation and disclosure of responsible corporate policies and practices. Launched in 2000, it is the largest corporate sustainability initiative in the world, with over 8,000 companies and 4,000 non-business signatories based in 160 countries. www.unglobalcompact.org