As the 80th UN General Assembly High-Level week concludes, here are five takeaways from the UN Global Compact every sustainability-minded business leader will want to know. Businesses have a critical ...

The CEO Study, co-authored by the UN Global Compact and Accenture, provides readers with a window into the trending topics of effective business from leaders around the world. Since its initial ...

The 80th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA80) will take place from 9-29 September in New York. Over the past year, the sustainability agenda has rapidly evolved. The UN General Assembly provides a ...

Despite growing awareness and global commitments to gender equality, women are disproportionately underrepresented in corporate leadership roles. Female participation in the workforce has increased, ...

With only five years remaining to reach the 2030 deadline, the world risks falling behind on the promise to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The latest report from the United Nations ...

Sustainability is no longer a side issue — it’s central to long-term financial success. A growing wave of investors and companies are aligning capital with climate, equity and governance goals — not ...

Note: Responsibility for the content of participants" public communication related to the Ten Principles of the UN Global Compact and their implementation lies with participants themselves and not ...

Conversations about young people tend to focus on how they will shape the future. But Luísa Franco Machado, a Young Leader for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at the United Nations, offers a ...

After starting his job as a lab assistant at a Michelin Group plant in Bahia, Brazil, Marcus Vinicius Martins Lavrador could afford to buy a car, which proved to be a boon to his family’s standard of ...

Water is essential for life—a simple truth we all know. But what’s equally critical and sometimes overlooked is that it is also essential for business. Water drives the global economy, from ...

Until the mid-2010s, few companies reported on on their nature-related impacts. However, nature reporting has gained significant traction in the past few years as businesses recognize the financial, ...

Twenty-five years ago, nearly 50 pioneering companies joined forces with the United Nations to align their operations and strategies to advance a more sustainable world. On 26 July 2000, then-UN ...