Business Contribution to the 2030 Agenda

Business Contribution to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Not on Track, United Nations Global Compact and Accenture Study Finds Business Contribution to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Not on Track, United Nations Global Compact and Accenture Study Finds With a decade to deliver the Sustainable Development Goals, CEOs call for bold action to course-correct private sector contribution UNITED NATIONS, New York, Sept. 24, 2019 – CEOs say business contribution to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is not on track, according to the world’s largest study on corporate sustainability from the United Nations Global Compact and Accenture (NYSE: ACN). Launched today at the United Nations in New York, the UN Global Compact-Accenture Strategy 2019 CEO study — ‘The Decade to Deliver: A Call to Business Action’ — finds that just 21% of Chief Executives believe business is playing a critical role in contributing to the Global Goals, and less than half (48%) are integrating sustainability into their business operations. Despite pockets of progress and innovation since the Global Goals were agreed in 2015, socioeconomic, geopolitical and technological uncertainties over the past four years have distracted CEOs’ sustainability efforts. The study draws on insights from more than 1,000 CEOs from many of the world’s leading organizations. Together with the UN Global Compact Progress Report, which surveyed nearly 1,600 companies from over 100 countries, it forms the most comprehensive research to date on business contribution to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. “With less than 4,000 days remaining until the 2030 target, business leaders are not content with current progress and