AS AN INTERNATIONAL GENDER CHAMPION , IN WHAT WAYS HAVE YOU SEEN THE LANDSCAPE CHANGE OVER THE YEARS AND HOW DO YOU USE YOUR POSITION TO DRIVE THAT CHANGE ?
“ I think it ’ s becoming more and more clear that responsible business is good business ”
— Lise Kingo , CEO and Executive Director , UN Global Compact
world , but a common denominator is that we have too slow a pace to reach the goals by 2030 . So , as the world ’ s largest sustainable business organisation , we are now preparing a new initiative that we call the SDG Ambition , which is about helping companies across the world , through our local networks , to set specific targets and to really have an ambition and specific goals . We are hoping that , by giving more focus for companies and setting concrete goals for the targets , we can begin to see the needle move behind each target and reach some of the tipping points that the world so desperately needs , for example , on climate change and on gender equality .
AS AN INTERNATIONAL GENDER CHAMPION , IN WHAT WAYS HAVE YOU SEEN THE LANDSCAPE CHANGE OVER THE YEARS AND HOW DO YOU USE YOUR POSITION TO DRIVE THAT CHANGE ?
Fortunately , there are good stories out there . One of them is , for example , that the Secretary General has now achieved gender parity on the Board of the UN Global Compact , which he chairs . While we have gender parity now , we have a huge challenge globally when it comes to gender equality . At the moment , it will take more than 200 years to close the gender equality gap and I feel that things have been moving backwards during recent years . So , we have decided the UN Global Compact will launch a new initiative which we ’ ve called Target Gender Equality . We are going to encourage companies to set very specific targets on gender representation at the executive management level , but also in certain parts of the world to simply better include women in the workforce . We are launching three new gender global impact initiatives : one on setting targets on the global goals , one on setting targets on gender and one on setting 1.5 degree ,
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