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Article

5 Jul 2017

Author:
Ping Manongdo, Eco-Business

Video: Unilever's CEO on how to align companies with UN Sustainable Development Goals

"The value of SDG-focused business models", 4 Jul 2017

...[Unilever] is...one of the most active players in a growing sustainability tribe of the world’s biggest retailers that promote and exemplify the idea that if a company wants to be prosperous in the long-term, then putting sustainability at the heart of its business model makes perfect sense.

...Eco-Business interviewed Unilever CEO Paul Polman on his thoughts around how to align businesses with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)...

Here’s what Polman had to say about why SDGs matter to the private sector, and what the US$50 billion company which he helms is doing to promote these.