WELCOME TO UN GLOBAL COMPACT
Thank you for joining the world’s largest corporate sustainability initiative.
This page will guide you through your first steps and help you make the most of your engagement.
Getting Started: First Steps
As a new participant, we encourage you to begin with these key actions to activate your UN Global Compact participation.
Update your email preferences or download Brand Guidelines!
About the Academy
Through innovative learning experiences across key topics and languages, the UN Global Compact Academy offers actionable insights and best practices relevant to your specific challenges, regardless of corporate function or where you are on your sustainability journey.
All employees of your company now have access to the UN Global Compact Academy — our digital learning platform — as well as the Resource Library with practical guidance, tools and case studies.
Choose from live and on-demand sessions with industry experts or learn at your own pace with e-learning courses, learning paths and essential guides that will help you learn key sustainability concepts, anytime, anywhere.
Read the Academy User Guide for more information.
Take action
The UN Global Compact offers your company numerous ways of engagement — make the most out of them to deliver an impactful sustainability strategy.
FLAGSHIP EVENTS
- As a new participant, your company will receive invitations to UN Global Compact flagship events, global programmatic gatherings and UN side-events, including the annual UN Global Compact Leaders Summit and Uniting Business regional events. Invitations will be sent to your company's designated contact points.
ACCELERATORS - UN Global Compact Accelerators are multi-month development programmes that help participating companies embed SDG-aligned practices deep into business operations to accelerate progress and impact for the 2030 Agenda. Run in close collaboration with Global Compact Country Networks, our Accelerators are designed to deliver concrete company-specific outcomes.
SCIENCE BASED TARGETS INITIATIVE - Lead the way to a zero-carbon economy, boost innovation and drive sustainable growth by setting ambitious, science-based emissions reduction targets through our partner Science-based Targets initiative (SBTi).
ENDORSE THE WEP`s - The Women’s Empowerment Principles (WEPs) provide a holistic framework for companies to promote gender equality and women’s empowerment in the workplace, marketplace and community and drive positive outcomes for society and business.
Principles-based approach
The Ten Principles and their four pillars of human rights, labour, environment and anti-corruption represent the fundamental values that anchor business action on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
SDG leadership requires setting ambitious goals and targets that go beyond incremental progress and towards the transformational change needed to achieve the 2030 Agenda. These goals need to be grounded in the Ten Principles to ensure companies are not undermining their own efforts towards achieving the 2030 Agenda. Here are three excellent resources that will help your company take action on the Global Goals:
