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MONTHLY BULLETIN | JANUARY 2026
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A look into 2026 at the UN Global Compact
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As 2026 begins, Sanda Ojiambo, CEO and Executive Director of the UN Global Compact, shared her Annual Letter to participants, emphasizing “responsible business is resilient business.” Reflecting on a year of global uncertainty, climate extremes and political change, Ojiambo highlighted how companies continue to lead on sustainability, transparency and collective action. She went on to share the new UN Global Compact Strategy 2026–2030 with a clear vision: to mobilize business to transform sustainable business ambition into action at the scale the world demands.
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UN Global Compact launches 2026–2030 Strategy to scale responsible business impact
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The UN Global Compact recently unveiled its 2026–2030 Strategy, a five-year plan to help companies turn sustainability commitments into measurable impact amid rising climate, social and geopolitical pressures. Anchored in the Ten Principles and the 2030 Agenda, the strategy focuses on equipping companies to act, catalyzing collective action and strengthening the business case for responsible leadership.
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Water Resilience Coalition and World Economic Forum unite to elevate water as a business priority
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The Water Resilience Coalition (WRC) and the World Economic Forum (WEF) announced a strategic collaboration to mobilize global business leadership on urgent water challenges. Bringing together 40 leading companies representing $5 trillion in market value, the partnership will elevate water resilience on global agendas, drive basin-level collective action and advance thought leadership aligned with Sustainable Development Goal 6 (SDG 6). As water scarcity affects billions of people and threatens business continuity, the collaboration positions water stewardship as a source of competitive advantage and long-term value creation.
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GLOBAL SPOTLIGHT | Greece
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Evolving business in Greece: Sustainability as a strategy for resilience and growth
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UN Global Compact Country Network Greece held its annual event, titled “Future-Fit Sustainable Business Models: When Sustainability is Strategy,” in Athens, Greece last month. The event convened more than 100 senior business executives, alongside representatives from the Government of Greece, the UN Global Compact, the University of Oxford and others. The event provided a high-level platform for dialogue on the business case for sustainable development today, highlighting key sustainability trends, EU regulatory developments and a comprehensive perspective on how sustainability is transforming business models in practice.
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TAKE ACTION WITH KEY SURVEYS AND PROGRAMMES FROM THE UN GLOBAL COMPACT AND GLOBAL COUNTRY NETWORKS
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Corporate Action on Air Pollution Survey
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In partnership with the Clean Air Fund, UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI), the UN Global Compact launched a survey about Corporate Action on Air Pollution to help businesses better monitor and report on air pollutants while building awareness and capacity in the private sector to take action. The survey’s will help to inform tools and practical guides for business use. The questionnaire will be open to responses for all UN Global Compact participant companies until 15 February 2026.
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Global Risk Report Survey
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The UN Secretary-General shares the 2024 UN Global Risk Report and extends sincere thanks to participants of the UN Global Compact, who represented 10 per cent of total respondents. The survey informs global risk priorities at a critical moment for multilateral action. Further details on the Secretary-General’s Global Risk Survey for 2026 will be shared in the February Bulletin.
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Communication on Progress Deadline Ended
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Thank you for your submissions to the Communication on Progress (CoP), which were due on 31 December 2025 at 5 p.m. ET. As a reminder, the CoP is an annual, mandatory requirement for all business participants of the UN Global Compact. There are many resources on the UN Global Compact website, so please reach out with any questions if you have them.
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GLOBAL COMPACT POLICY REFRESHERS
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In January UN Global Compact welcomed 243 new companies and one new non-business stakeholders.
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Largest companies (by employee number) to join:
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- NMB-MINEBEA THAI LTD., Thailand
- SAUDIA Airlines, Saudi Arabia
- Grant Thornton Bharat, India
- Slalom, Inc., United States of America
- PT Bussan Auto Finance, Indonesia
- KOKUYO CO.,LTD., Japan
- Laurus Labs Limited, India
- Duplicate Organization (shb), China
- IRMANDADE DA SANTA CASA DE MISERICORDIA DE SAO PAULO, Brazil
- Markerstudy Group Limited, United Kingdom
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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, labour, 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. We are the world's largest corporate sustainability initiative, with over 23,000 company signatories and 2,784 non-business signatories, based in 167 countries and 66 Country Networks.
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