The UN Global Compact Network Sri Lanka will be co-hosting three sessions. Over 26 hours of continuous virtual programming, speakers and guests from 69 Global Compact Local Networks will discuss responsible business practices through the lens of pressing issues such as the state of sustainability credible climate action tackling corruption through collective action decent work and ensuring living wages accelerating women’s leadership and bringing innovative sustainable investment instruments to market. Mohammed President of COP26, Alok Sharma the UK’s High-Level Climate Champion Nigel Topping Inger Andersen, Executive Director, UNEP Michelle Bachelet, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Sharan Burrow, Secretary General of the International Trade Union Confederation and Sanda Ojiambo, CEO & Executive Director of the UN Global Compact. Kim Boo-kyum UN Secretary-General António Guterres UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina J. Andrew Holness, Prime Minister of the Republic of Korea, H.E. Halimah Yacob Prime Minister of Jamaica, H.E. The United Nations Global Compact Leaders Summit on 15-16 June will convene Heads of State, CEOs of major corporations and UN leaders to address the converging global crises of climate change, the Covid-19 global pandemic, worsening social and economic inequality and unchecked corruption in order to offer a roadmap for a sustainable recovery.Ĭonfirmed speakers include the President of Singapore, H.E. More than 20,000 leaders from business, government, the UN, and civil society will gather for the UN’s largest corporate sustainability event to elevate ambition for strategic collective action to get back on track after the pandemic and rebuild a just, equitable and resilient society.
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