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Article

1 Jun 2015

Author:
UN Global Compact & Linklaters

Guide to General Counsel on Corporate Sustainability

This project was borne from the desire to engage lawyers more fully as the champions of corporate sustainability that they can be…[W]e began to see a greater number of GC [General Counsels] and in-house lawyers attending UN Global Compact events, engaging in corporate sustainability workstreams and showing true leadership in corporate sustainability initiatives, such as human rights…community engagement, diversity and inclusion and the rule of law…We were eager to better understand this emerging trend and to encourage the changes we were witnessing – seeing lawyers transition into engaging actively in corporate sustainability and, in the process, becoming “accelerators” of these issues within their companies...