{"id":5437,"date":"2011-01-28T23:55:25","date_gmt":"2011-01-28T22:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/?p=5437"},"modified":"2011-02-02T12:47:50","modified_gmt":"2011-02-02T11:47:50","slug":"un","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/2011\/01\/28\/un\/","title":{"rendered":"UN Secretary-General Launches New Platform for Corporate Sustainability Leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unglobalcompact.org\/news\/96-01-28-2011\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5440\" title=\"110202_ungc\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/110202_ungc.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a>Group of 54 Companies Makes Historic Commitment to Adopt Ambitious Sustainability Roadmap and Demonstrate Leadership in Tackling Global Challenges. Underscoring the role of business in addressing global threats &#8211; from climate change to widespread poverty or humanitarian emergencies &#8211; a group of chief executives joined UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in Davos\/Switzerland today for the launch of Global Compact LEAD &#8211; a new platform created by the UN Global Compact to take environmental, social and governance performance to the next level and set a new benchmark for corporate sustainability. The executives represent a group of 54 companies, all participants of the UN Global Compact, that have made an ambitious commitment to work towards implementation of the Blueprint for Corporate Sustainability Leadership, a comprehensive roadmap outlining roughly 50 concrete actions businesses can take to achieve greater sustainability. The Blueprint was first introduced by the Global Compact in June 2010. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unglobalcompact.org\/news\/96-01-28-2011\" target=\"_blank\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>News selected by Covalence | Country: Global | Company: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unglobalcompact.org\/docs\/news_events\/9.1_news_archives\/2011_01_28\/Inaugural_LEAD_Participants.pdf\">Download List of Inaugural Global Compact LEAD companies<\/a> | Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unglobalcompact.org\/news\/96-01-28-2011\" target=\"_blank\">UN Global Compact<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Group of 54 Companies Makes Historic Commitment to Adopt Ambitious Sustainability Roadmap and Demonstrate Leadership in Tackling Global Challenges. Underscoring the role of business in addressing global threats &#8211; from climate change to widespread poverty or humanitarian emergencies &#8211; a group of chief executives joined UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in Davos\/Switzerland today for the launch&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":665,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_post_series":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-5437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","entry","no-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/665"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5437"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_series?post=5437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}