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Businesses must rise to fill the gap in climate change leadership

Sanda Ojiambo, UN Global Compact

28 October 2021 • 5 min read

Companies have a part to play in ambitious climate action — not least because it increasingly makes strong economic sense, writes UN Global Compact CEO Sanda Ojiambo

With just days to go until COP26, businesses increasingly understand the urgent need to act because they are already living with the effects of climate change and the havoc that extreme weather events...

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