(New York, 31 August 2015) – Today, after 15 years at the helm of the world’s largest corporate sustainability initiative, Georg Kell will step down as Executive Director of the UN Global Compact, the organization he helped found in 2000 and which he has built into a global movement over the past...
Read More(Stockholm, 25 August 2015) – Today, the UN Global Compact’s CEO Water Mandate announced the first comprehensive guide on forming multi-stakeholder water stewardship initiatives with integrity. Launched at the CEO Water Mandate’s annual meeting during World Water Week in Stockholm, Sweden, the...
Read More(New York, 21 August 2015) – Today, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon issued revised guidelines on UN-business cooperation, which will serve as a critical framework for coherent, principle-based and transparent private sector engagement as the UN prepares for implementation of the Post-2015 Develo...
Read More(New York, 13 August 2015) – The United Nations Global Compact, the world’s largest corporate sustainability network, said that the recent papal encyclical on environmental principles “should inspire the private sector to do more to protect the environment and address climate change,” in an open ...
Read More(New York, 12 August 2015) – More than one month ahead of an historic summit with 150 heads of state expected to be in attendance, and after intensive intergovernmental negotiations that brought in the viewpoints of civil society and business, UN Member States agreed to the full text of a documen...
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