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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The Commission is grateful to the many organisations and individuals that have made substantial contributions to the Commission’s programme of work. They are, however, not responsible for the accuracy, content, findings or recommendations. The findings do not necessarily reflect their views nor those of the organisations they represent. Aavishkaar Intellecap Group The Abraaj Group Accenture plc African Development Bank Group The Al-Dabbagh Group The Alibaba Group AlphaBeta Australian Council for International Development (ACFID) Avaaz Aviva plc The B Team The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation The Brookings Institution Cambridge Judge Business School Corporate Citizenship The Dalberg Group Deutsche Bank AG Doğan Group Edelman Foresight Economics Ltd FSG Social Impact Advisors GITI Group Global Action Plan The Global Commission on the Economy and Climate Green Economy Coalition The Grundfos Group The GSM Association (GSMA) Harvard Business School Harvard Kennedy School of Government Hewlett Packard Enterprise Hystra IFC Asset Management Company LLC InfluenceMap The International Center for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD) The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) The Education Commission The International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) The International Monetary Fund (IMF) The International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) Investec Asset Management 116
Lagos Deep Offshore Logistics Base (LADOL) Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy The Made in Africa Initiative Mars, Inc. McKinsey Global Institute McKinsey Social Initiative Merck & Co. Inc. MMG Limited The Mo Ibrahim Foundation National Management Holding 'Baiterek' The Federal Ministry of Environment, Nigeria Olam International The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) The Overseas Development Institute (ODI) Pearson plc Plumen PricewaterhouseCoopers International (PwC) The Rockefeller Foundation Safaricom Limited Save the Children Fund The Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship Shift Singularity University SYSTEMIQ The Tellus Mater Foundation Temasek Holdings Private Ltd The Toilet Board Coalition The UBS Group AG The UK Department for International Development (DFID) Unilever The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) The United Nations Executive Office of the Secretary General (EOSG) The United Nations Foundation (UNF) The United Nations Global Compact (UNGC) The United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network (UN SDSN) United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Volans Winston Eco-Strategies Llc Within People WithoutViolence Women’s World Banking The World Bank Group The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) The World Economic Forum (WEF) The World Resources Institute (WRI) X Prize Foundation Yara International ASA Z/Yen Group Ltd. 117
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BETTER BUSINESS BETTER WORLD The re
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THE BUSINESS AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELO
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3.5 Incorporating the Global Goals
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economic system. But we cannot defe
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towards achieving the Global Goals
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Leading for sustainable development
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Rebuilding the social contract requ
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1. INTRODUCTION: THE GLOBAL GOALS A
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2050, up from around US$2 trillion,
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However, progress needs to go much,
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scaling challengers to fossil fuel
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Economic gains from achieving all t
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Though this big group of opportunit
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• Forest ecosystem services (US$1
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investment in solar PV has already
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while access to affordable energy w
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EXHIBIT 6: Pricing externalities in
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EXHIBIT 7: More than half the value
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EXHIBIT 8: Almost 380 million jobs
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3.1 Sustainability is already good
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The majority of businesses successf
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EXHIBIT 11: Number and valuation of
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3.3 Transforming the way business o
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Box 2: Ericsson executives champion
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the company and through its supply
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Many sectors are agreeing “pre-co
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etter while also solving societal p
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use of micro-irrigation techniques;
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EXHIBIT 12: Negative profit margins
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