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MONTHLY BULLETIN | APRIL 2025
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Register now for Leaders Summit – Early rates end next month
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Leaders Summit 2025 will take place on 23 September. This is your opportunity to exchange ideas, share best practices and collaborate on bold solutions to advance responsible business and accelerate progress on the Sustainable Development Goals. Pre-sale rates for the Leaders Summit end in less than a month: 21 May 2025. This is the best time to secure your ticket at the most affordable rate. Register now and lock in the lowest available rate to attend this full day of collaboration, innovation and action.
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Launching the Ocean Investment Protocol: Aligning finance with SDG 14
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The UN Global Compact, in partnership with the UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEPFI), is hosting a virtual webinar to launch the Ocean Investment Protocol on 28 May. The Ocean Investment Protocol offers a practical framework to help financial institutions, insurers, ocean-based industries and various other stakeholders to align their strategies with Sustainable Development Goal 14: Life Below Water. The finance sector can drive meaningful progress toward a healthy and resilient ocean economy by managing environmental risks and tapping into sustainable blue economy opportunities.
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Global Country Network Sri Lanka launches new patron model for Sustainable Development Goal leadership
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UN Global Compact Country Network Sri Lanka launched a new “patron structure” for its Working Groups—an initiative designed to elevate corporate sustainability leadership. Network participants will take on strategic mentorship roles through this new model, offering guidance and accelerating impactful action aligned with the SDGs. The official signing of the Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) took place on 20 March in Colombo, with the Network’s board in attendance. This event marks efforts to strengthen a collective commitment to responsible business practices and shared progress.
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2025 Communication on Progress submission period now open
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East Asia’s path to gender equality: New report highlights family-friendly practices and male allyship
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UN Global Compact Liaison Office in China marked the 25th anniversary of the UN Global Compact and the 30th anniversary of the Beijing Declaration by launching the “Parents at Work” report on 31 March during the China-Japan-Korea Business Roundtable in Beijing. The report spotlights progress and opportunities in advancing gender equality through family-friendly workplace practices and male allyship across East Asia’s major economies. Drawing from aggregated data via the WEPs Gender Gap Analysis Tool, the report offers quantitative insights into how companies in China, Japan, Korea and the broader Asia and Oceania region are supporting working parents.
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UN Oceans Conference (UNOC)
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The UN Oceans Conference will take place in Nice, France from 9-13 June.. The event will host a variety of stakeholders to assess challenges, opportunities and actions taken towards the implementation of Sustainable Development Goal 14.
Read here »
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Save the Date for Unstoppable Africa 2025
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Concurrent to the 80th session of the UN General Assembly at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York City, the Global Africa Business Initiative will convene the 4th edition of Unstoppable Africaon 21-22 September 2025. The event seeks to develop actionable frameworks for Africa’s transformation, promoting trade and investment opportunities in the region and the world. Join the mailing list for more information.
Join here »
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Leading-Edge Academy Offerings:
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1. How procurement decisions can advance decent work in supply chains
This course focuses on best practices for sustainable procurement, providing guidance on engaging with suppliers to improve decent work in the global supply chain. It introduces the UN Global Compact Decent Work Engagement Toolkit for Sustainable Procurement, designed to help procurement teams integrate decent work considerations, set KPIs and engage meaningfully with suppliers.
Enroll here »
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2. How to improve safety and health in global supply chains
This session features experts discussing actions to improve worker health and safety in global supply chains and strengthen national Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) systems to ensure decent working conditions for all. Each year, 2.78 million workers die from work-related accidents and 374 million suffer non-fatal injuries. This equates to 7,500 daily fatalities due to unsafe working conditions. Global supply chains present opportunities to promote good OSH practices, especially in countries with inadequate OSH systems.
Enroll here »
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3. Advancing decent work in business through the UN Global Compact Labour Principles
This learning path provides practical steps for businesses to implement sustainable, responsible and inclusive workplace practices. It focusing on key topics such as freedom of association, forced and child labour elimination, non-discrimination and workplace safety.
Enroll here »
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Have questions about the Academy and how you can implement it across your company? View our new user guide here.
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TAKE ACTION WITH THE ACCELERATORS
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2025 Target Gender Equality Accelerator now open for registration
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The Target Gender Equality Accelerator is a high-impact, six-month programme designed for companies participating in the United Nations Global Compact. In collaboration with UN Women, the programme helps businesses translate their gender equality commitments into concrete actions, aligned with best practices and international standards, such as the Women’s Empowerment Principles (WEPs).
Participants must be affiliated with, or joining the UN Global Compact
Programme is 6 months
Applications close on 30 May 2025
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Registration open for the Climate Ambition Accelerator 2025
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The Climate Ambition Accelerator aims to scale-up credible climate action across companies of varying sizes, sectors and regions. Through Global Compact Country Networks, companies will gain access to best practices, peer-to-peer learning opportunities, practical activities, capacity building and on-demand training.
Participants must be affiliated with, or joining the UN Global Compact.
Programme is 6 months.
Applications close on 30 April 2025.
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Taking Collective Action for Anti-Corruption e-learning course now available in four languages
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Now available in French, English, Portuguese and Spanish, this course introduces a six-step approach, enabling companies to make a clear diagnosis of their local corruption landscape, identify and engage stakeholders and apply the Collective Action methodology to address identified corruption challenges and mitigate potential business risks. Check it out via your UN Global Compact account.
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GLOBAL COMPACT POLICY REFRESHERS
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In April UN Global Compact welcomed 325 new companies and 24 new non-business stakeholders.
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Largest companies (by employee number) to join:
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- Turgut Aydın Holding A.Ş., Türkiye
- WISAG Dienstleistungsholding SE, Germany
- Brose Fahrzeugteile SE & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft, Coburg, Germany
- EMPREENDIMENTOS PAGUE MENOS S/A, Brazil
- Yusen Logistics Global Management Co., Ltd., Japan
- Michelin North America, Inc., United States of America
- Ganfeng Lithium Group Co., Ltd., China
- Mandarin Oriental (UK) Limited, United Kingdom
- CALB Group Co., Ltd., China
- GANADEROS PRODUCTORES DE LECHE PURA, Mexico
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ABOUT THE UN GLOBAL COMPACT
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As a unique initiative of the UN Secretary-General, the UN Global Compact calls on companies worldwide to align their operations and strategies with the Ten Principles in human rights, labor, environment and anti-corruption. Our ambition is to accelerate and scale the global collective impact of business by upholding the Ten Principles and delivering the Sustainable Development Goals. It is the world's largest corporate sustainability initiative, with over 21,000 companies and 2,846 non-business signatories, based in 167 countries and 63 Country Networks.
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