16 December 2011 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today highlighted the critical role that businesses play in advancing sustainable development, and called for a surge in public-private partnerships ahead of a major United Nations conference on the issue next June.
“We need you. More than ever before, we need to develop a long-term vision for our planet,”...
A growing number of businesses have signed up to the Global Compact since it was set up in 2000, pledging to align their business practices to 10 universally accepted principles concerning human rights, labour, environmental sustainability and the fight against corruption. The Compact is the world’s largest corporate responsibility initiative with 6,000 companies in 135 countries...
...“If sustainable development is to become a reality, we need to unleash a wave of public-private partnership (Wikipedia) on a much bigger scale,” he added...
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