How can you succeed as an entrepreneur and make a difference in your community?
A Fireside Chat with two social impact pioneers on their insights on what it takes to be a successful female entrepreneur. Discover how to get started, build a business, and receive valuable endorsements from other organizations. Get practical advice on how to succeed as an entrepreneur and make a difference in your community. Hear stories […]
Where are the gaps in business leadership for climate justice?
Hosted with Meta While it is primarily the responsibility of governments to drive action on climate change, businesses and their civil society partners also have a leadership role to drive action within their organisations, value chains and wider spheres of influence. Studies show that the large majority of employees and the wider public expect CEOs […]
How can we collaborate better across climate and health to drive equity and resilience?
Hosted with GSK Climate change threatens people’s lives, health and wellbeing. These impacts are not being felt equally, and reflect deep-seated inequities, such as by gender and race. For instance, those communities with poorer access to health care are most impacted by extreme weather events, and are the least able to recover quickly. Meanwhile, global […]
How can we scale youth enterprise solutions for climate justice?
Hosted with the Corporate Responsibility Initiative, Harvard Kennedy School, Change by Degrees and INJAZ Egypt. In this session we explored the practical solutions being developed by inspiring young entrepreneurs that help vulnerable people adapt to and mitigate the risks of climate change. We unpacked the challenges young entrepreneurs face in achieving scale, and how larger […]
What more can we do to place gender equity at the heart of climate action?
Women are disproportionately impacted by climate change, and face greater barriers in accessing the opportunities that come with the green transition. What more can business, in partnership with others, do to support women? How can we ensure that climate actions are gender-smart? In this session we learned from the latest examples of actions being taken […]
How can business drive climate justice through supply chains? – highlight video
Hosted with Meta This session explored how business can support climate justice by building supply chain resilience, especially for those people living in the world’s most vulnerable communities. What are real-life examples of supply chain resilience? What does real-life resilience look like from the supplier’s point of view? What role can technology play to support […]
How can we support new voices for climate justice?
Hosted with Meta Interviewees: Amanda Gardiner, Head, Sustainability Innovation & Engagement, Meta Sophia Li, Journalist and Climate Advocate
How can business partnerships tackle the hidden hunger through access to essential nutrients?
Hosted with Bayer Interviewees: Daniella Foster, Senior Vice President and Global Head of Public Affairs, Science and Sustainability, Consumer Health Division, Bayer Minaud Dacius, Country Director for Haiti, Vitamin Angels
How can business partner to help small retailers thrive? Lessons from the country-level
Hosted with AB InBev Across the value chains of companies like AB InBev, there is a network of millions of entrepreneurs – from small-scale farmers to neighbourhood shops. These small and medium businesses (SMBs) are critical to the success of these value chains, while also generating important livelihood opportunities and services for local communities. As […]
How can we accelerate access to clean water, sanitation and hygiene?
Hosted with Reckitt The pandemic and effects of climate change are creating a challenging terrain with high levels of water stress impacting the most vulnerable and putting a strain on WASH systems. Sustainable, community-led and owned business models are charting the path for innovations to scale with learnings distilled from experts and innovators themselves. In […]
How can innovations in workforce development programmes address racial equity and inclusion issues?
Hosted with Barclays This session explored how we can build an equitable and human-centred economy that supports and fosters a new generation of workers. We dove deep into how innovations in workforce development programmes can address racial equity and inclusion issues. We heard from inspiring entrepreneurs from across the portfolio of Acumen America, which is […]
How can multi-stakeholder platforms drive engagement and behaviour change? Lessons from addressing health issues in East Africa
Hosted with Amref and the National Business Compact on Coronavirus Focused on learnings from an ambitious multi-stakeholder platform tackling COVID-19 in East Africa, this session unpacked the effectiveness of this type of collaboration in driving sustained engagement and behaviour change to improve global health and well-being. It probed whether multi-stakeholder platforms are the way forward […]
How can business support vulnerable people and communities in the face of the poverty tsunami?
COVID, conflict and climate change are among a confluence of challenges driving a tsunami of poverty that is already crashing into the lives of vulnerable people and communities around the world. In every country, people are facing what the UN describes as a “once-in-a-generation” cost of living crisis. The war in Ukraine has added further […]
How can business help drive a more equitable society?
Hosted with Barclays Interviewees: Stella Tran, Senior Associate, Acumen America April Dominguez, CEO, Handsome App
How do you create a sustainable and ethical supply chain for decarbonization? Lessons from mining
Hosted with Anglo American The session focused on how to create sustainable and ethical supply chains for decarbonization. It built on many of the themes covered during the Global Summit, and featured a case study of the assessment of the UNKI Platinum Mine in Zimbabwe against the Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance’s Standard for Sustainable […]
What are the poverty drivers and priorities for business action? – Highlight video
Fireside Chat with: Jane Nelson, Director, Corporate Responsibility Initiative, Harvard Kennedy School Jason Channell, Managing Director, Head of Sustainable Finance, Citi Global Insights
How can businesses tackle the new wave of poverty? – Highlight video
This session explored the role business can play in tackling the new wave of poverty. What are the current poverty trends, and how businesses can use a multidimensional approach to poverty to respond? What is the role of collaborative action to tackle the deep systemic issues that drive poverty? Why should businesses take action and […]
How do we work together to tackle multidimensional poverty?
This session explored how we can work together – across business, government and civil society to tackle multidimensional poverty. How does your organisation think about poverty in your sustainability strategies and what lessons have you learnt about measuring progress? How does your organisation take action in tackling poverty and what lessons have you learnt from […]
How can business tackle inequality?
Hosted with WBCSD Welcome by Zahid and Yvette Torres-Rahman, Founders, Business Fights Poverty Followed by a Fireside Chat with the Business Commission to Tackle Inequality Peter Bakker, President and CEO, WBCSD Ilham Kadri. CEO Solvay and Chair, WBCSD Yvette Torres-Rahman, Co-Founder & CFO, Business Fights Poverty
How can business support the economic inclusion of LGBTI people and persons with disabilities in emerging markets?
This session, hosted with IFC, explored how business can support the economic inclusion of LGBTI people and persons with disabilities in emerging markets. What are some recent examples businesses focusing on the inclusion of LGBTI people and persons with disabilities as employees and as customers, and what is driving this? What are some good practices […]