Forbes covers the United Nations Global Compact Statement from Business Leaders for Renewed Global Cooperation and how businesses and leaders can join forces to achieve the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals—particularly Goal Five, which strives for gender equality for women and girls worldwide. Through cooperation, sharing resources, and focusing on approaches like increasing information and engagement; business leaders can help lift women—thereby helping everyone and improving economic outlooks around the globe.
By Shelley Zalis, Forbes
For all its plot twists and unpredictability, 2020 has actually been fairly consistent in its urgent call for real change.
Specifically, this year has been a rallying cry for more transparency, accountability, engagement, equality, equity, and inclusion of its citizens — and, notably, the businesses and institutions that serve and profit from them. It’s also calling for more empathy, compassion and direct action from leadership in all forms.
That is where the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs or Global Goals) come in. Created by the United Nations as a “blueprint to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all,” the 17 Goals address the myriad global challenges we face. Achieving the Global Goals is a multilateral endeavor — one in which the private sector plays a critical role. As the United Nations Global Compact puts it: “Business cannot thrive unless people and planet are thriving.” They created a practical guide for companies, identifying how to use the Global Goals as a template for a new way of business.
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