Report
Aligning Business Innovation with the Sustainable Development Goals: Success Stories

2023

Our shared future will depend on business innovation and leadership. This report discusses innovation's critical role in advancing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It offers actionable guidance on how companies can innovate to reach the United Nations Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development. The intractable challenges we face will require innovation and leadership from businesses worldwide and the United States in particular. We need companies to build sustainability into their business strategies and operations. We must invest in an existing and emerging talent pool of changemakers to find sustainable solutions. We need businesses to aim higher to meet our world's existential challenges. In this report, Network USA shares the design logic, discusses rich implementation examples, shares its learnings, and recommends actionable steps companies can take to lead their businesses into a future as a force for good to forge a more prosperous and resilient world.

Report
Aligning Business Innovation with the Sustainable Development Goals: Success Stories

2023

Our shared future will depend on business innovation and leadership. This report discusses innovation's critical role in advancing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It offers actionable guidance on how companies can innovate to reach the United Nations Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development. The intractable challenges we face will require innovation and leadership from businesses worldwide and the United States in particular. We need companies to build sustainability into their business strategies and operations. We must invest in an existing and emerging talent pool of changemakers to find sustainable solutions. We need businesses to aim higher to meet our world's existential challenges. In this report, Network USA shares the design logic, discusses rich implementation examples, shares its learnings, and recommends actionable steps companies can take to lead their businesses into a future as a force for good to forge a more prosperous and resilient world.

SDG Reporting
Report
Navigating Decent Work Challenges in Multi-Tiered Supply Chains: Leadership Brief

2020

Examines how companies can navigate complex multi-tiered supply chains and their associated challenges as part of their efforts to advance decent work in their global supply chains. While multi-tier supply chains have the advantage of driving efficiency, reducing planning cycle lead times and reducing possible business disruptions, they also increase the risk of causing or contributing to human rights impacts and decent work deficits, particularly in the lower tiers of the chain. This is exacerbated in a crisis situation such as a pandemic, where workers’ rights and conditions may be compromised and income threatened as a result of order cancellations, factory shut-downs, or layoffs. This report seeks to guide multinational enterprises in reducing global supply chain vulnerabilities and provides proactive measures companies can take and best practice examples to draw inspiration from.

Report
Navigating Decent Work Challenges in Multi-Tiered Supply Chains: Leadership Brief

2020

Examines how companies can navigate complex multi-tiered supply chains and their associated challenges as part of their efforts to advance decent work in their global supply chains. While multi-tier supply chains have the advantage of driving efficiency, reducing planning cycle lead times and reducing possible business disruptions, they also increase the risk of causing or contributing to human rights impacts and decent work deficits, particularly in the lower tiers of the chain. This is exacerbated in a crisis situation such as a pandemic, where workers’ rights and conditions may be compromised and income threatened as a result of order cancellations, factory shut-downs, or layoffs. This report seeks to guide multinational enterprises in reducing global supply chain vulnerabilities and provides proactive measures companies can take and best practice examples to draw inspiration from.

Supply Chain
Report
The Ambition Loop: How Business and Government Can Advance Policies that Fast Track Zero-Carbon Economic Growth

2019

Provides guidance for business and Government to fast track zero-carbon economic growth. With hundreds of businesses pursuing bold climate change solutions and countries updating national climate plans in advance of 2020, the opportunity for greater ambition abounds. More and more businesses are seeing opportunity in the zero-carbon economy and taking action on climate change. Governments must use this as a strong vote of confidence and advance ambitious policies that provide companies with the clarity and confidence they need to unlock further investments in climate solutions. This is the “ambition loop” — a positive feedback loop in which bold Government policies and private sector leadership reinforce each other, and together, take climate action to the next level.

Report
The Ambition Loop: How Business and Government Can Advance Policies that Fast Track Zero-Carbon Economic Growth

2019

Provides guidance for business and Government to fast track zero-carbon economic growth. With hundreds of businesses pursuing bold climate change solutions and countries updating national climate plans in advance of 2020, the opportunity for greater ambition abounds. More and more businesses are seeing opportunity in the zero-carbon economy and taking action on climate change. Governments must use this as a strong vote of confidence and advance ambitious policies that provide companies with the clarity and confidence they need to unlock further investments in climate solutions. This is the “ambition loop” — a positive feedback loop in which bold Government policies and private sector leadership reinforce each other, and together, take climate action to the next level.

Climate
Report
Time to Act: Decent Work, Modern Slavery, and Child Labour

2018

Decent Work cannot exist where modern slavery and child labour persist. Forced labour, modern slavery and child labour are complex problems associated with poverty, governance failures and inequalities in the global labour market. Tackling them requires a massive international effort, involving Governments, businesses, civil society organizations, trade unions and international bodies. This brief guide, developed as part of the Decent Work in Global Supply Chains Action Platform, offers a quick overview of the steps businesses can take to help eliminate modern slavery, while highlighting key resources, initiatives and engagement opportunities to support business action.

Report
Time to Act: Decent Work, Modern Slavery, and Child Labour

2018

Decent Work cannot exist where modern slavery and child labour persist. Forced labour, modern slavery and child labour are complex problems associated with poverty, governance failures and inequalities in the global labour market. Tackling them requires a massive international effort, involving Governments, businesses, civil society organizations, trade unions and international bodies. This brief guide, developed as part of the Decent Work in Global Supply Chains Action Platform, offers a quick overview of the steps businesses can take to help eliminate modern slavery, while highlighting key resources, initiatives and engagement opportunities to support business action.

Supply Chain