The Business Case is Building Itself – Get Ahead of the Curve

Capital and Talent is Flowing to Companies Focused on SDGs

A growing body of research shows that companies that measure and manage their sustainability issues are outperforming their peers in the market, attracting / retaining better talent, engaging their customers, decreasing risk and increasing opportunities to grow and enter new markets. In addition, members of the Millennial Generation are quickly rising up the employment ranks becoming managers, and taking control of their families’ wealth and investment choices — and they are driving demand for sustainable integration and investment opportunities.

For the next 15 years, the SDGs will be the primary lens by which this growing pool of capital and talent will examine the companies that they invest in. Leading sustainable organizations that position themselves to help meet the objectives of th new global goals will increasingly be favored in the market by this growing pool of important players. ESG criteria and sustainability data are becoming larger factors in where capital flows, where the best talent chooses to work, how companies reputations are shaped, and how investments are valued in the capital markets.

Stake a Claim as a Sustainability Leader!

Teleperformance joins the GSC 17 / 17 SDGs Initiative in support of SDG #3 and #4! Join
GSC 17 / 17 SDGs Initiative and sponsor one or more SDGs to showcase your leadership. (click here for prospectus, or contact Louis Coppola (louis.coppola@gscouncil.org) to find out more.

SDGs #1 and #2 are about ending poverty and hunger by 2030.

How is your strategy aligned?

The seven targets for SDG 1 address: making sure nobody lives on less than $1.25/day; setting up social floors; ensuring equal access to economic resources, basic services, land and property ownership, natural resources, and technology and financial services; building climate and disaster resilience; providing developing countries with the means to implement policies and programs to end poverty; and accelerating investment in poverty eradication actions.

SDG 1 in Action – 2015 GSC 3S Awards Nominee: Vihara Foundation

This video shows the commissioning of a creative fundraising platform Rock against Poverty to help raise global awareness and funds to pay for real scientific and business enterprise development intervention to counter extreme poverty in rural India (The Vihar Project).

The eight targets for SDG 2 address: ending hunger and ensuring access to safe, nutritious food; ending malnutrition for vulnerable groups, and tackling stunting and wasting for children under five; increasing agricultural productivity and ensuring access to land and other inputs; ensuring sustainable food production systems, and making agriculture more resilient and adaptive to climate and disasters; protecting genetic diversity and sharing its benefits; increasing investment in rural infrastructure, agricultural research and technological development for agriculture; addressing trade distortions; and limiting price volatility.

SDG 2 in Action – DupontDuPont has focused its efforts on developing innovations that will produce more food, enhance nutritional value, improve agriculture sustainability, boost food safety, extend food freshness and reduce waste.

Innovating to feed the world. DuPont committed $10B to R&D, and the introduction of 4,000 new products by the end of 2020. Moving forward with these goals, DuPont has invested more than $1.2 billion in research and development, and has already introduced more than 600 new products – all in 2014. Learn more at Dupont Feeds the World.

Make Your Mark as a Sustainability Leader

Join the GSC 17 / 17 SDGs Initiative!

Join GSC in responding to the new generation of responsible investors, who are “already beginning to alter the corporate landscape,” according to the UN Global Compact.

Tens of trillions of US dollars in assets are represented in the investors mobilized by the Principles for Responsible Investment and Carbon Disclosure Project. “These long-term oriented investors are requesting more and more information on how investee companies are managing environmental, social and governance issues,” UNGC reports. Strong ESG-managing companies stand to benefit the most from this new development era.

Contact Louis Coppola (louis.coppola@gscouncil.org) today to sponsor one or more SDGs by January 31st for 17% off sponsorship rate.

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