About This Event

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A high-level meeting during UNGA and the World Economic Forum Sustainable Development Impact Summit where we will pre-launch the For-Benefit Value Chains Alliance. 

 

For-Benefit Enterprises and the SDGs

 

As you know, at the current trajectory the world will fall very short of meeting the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030. Bold ambition and speedy response are required to mobilize the trillions in private sector investment needed.

 

Corporate purchasing power offers a promising pathway. It can be leveraged to create large scale demand for sustainable business models across global value chains, encouraging suppliers to better deliver social and environmental benefits while reducing harms.

 

With support from the UK Department for International Development, (DFID) and in collaboration with Philips, Unilever, CARE, the British Academy's Future of the Corporation programme, and the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), the Fourth Sector Group is organizing a multi-stakeholder alliance to leverage the potential of global value chains to achieve the SDGs.

 

This session builds on a series of consultations and workshops held at the World Economic Forum, the Bellagio Center, and the British Academy over the past year. It will bring together corporate executives and sustainability and supply chain leaders with experts from finance, civil society, and other sectors to explore a range of critical questions, and to align on a roadmap towards a commitment announcement at the World Economic Forum Meeting Annual Meeting in Davos 2020.