Publication database

This report discusses what a sustainable world looks like, how can we realise it, and what role business can play in ensuring more rapid progress towards sustainability. It elaborates on nine areas for business action: values and behaviours, human development, economy, agriculture, forests, energy and power, buildings, mobility and materials. The report results from an 18-month combined effort with CEOs and experts, and dialogues with over 200 companies and external stakeholders in some 20 countries.

This case study showcases alcoholic beverages company, SABMiller, which joined the Business Call to Action with an initiative to develop and improve local supply chains for barley, a key ingredient for the company’s products, in Rajasthan, India. It outlines the company's goals which include establishing centres throughout key barley-growing regions to provide farmers with certified seeds, agricultural skills training, and technical assistance; and it outlines how the business model works; the business and development impacts to date; and the key success factors.

This report aims to inform investors about the market potential of the clean energy industry serving India’s rural BoP market, by looking at its opportunities, challenges, and potential paths to growth. It overall picture of these growing clean energy sectors, rather providing investment advice on individual companies.

This report presents the Allianz company's experience in designing, delivering and scaling sustainable microinsurance products. It covers fives areas: what is microinsurance; how to create and design products for low-income people; how to deliver and operations; how to convince customers and sales; and how to be profitable and gain scale.

This case study showcases mining company, Anglo American, which joined the Business Call to Action with its commitment to tackle poverty, empower underprivileged individuals, and promote economic growth in South Africa’s mining and labour-sending communities. It outlines the company's goals; how the business model works; the business and development impacts to date; and the key success factors.

This case study showcases multi-national company, Cadbury, which joined the Business Call to Action with commitments to the Cadbury Cocoa Partnership which encourages the development of thriving cocoa communities in Africa, Southeast Asia, and the Caribbean. It outlines the partnership goals which include addressing the key issues affecting the cocoa sector e.g. child labour; and it discusses how the business model works; the business and development impacts to date; and the key success factors.

This report offers practical guidance on how to develop a sustainable supply chain programme based on the values and principles of the UN Global Compact. It features numerous examples of good corporate practice, and outlines ten principles that are intricately tied to sustainability in supply chains within human rights, labour, anti-corruption, and environment categories.

This paper discusses Microsoft’s experience of, and lessons to be learned from using cross-sector partnering approaches to support digital learning, and improving literacy and educational achievement across the world.

Este libro desarrolla ampliamente la relación entre los mercados y los pobres a través de la presentación de 33 iniciativas, de empresas de todo tamaño y de emprendedores sociales que realizan negocios para servir a los sectores de bajos ingresos en Iberoamérica. Los casos analizados incluyen distintos roles de las comunidades de bajos ingresos (productores, distribuidores, clientes, líderes del negocio) y corresponden a experiencias servicios públicos, reciclaje y agricultura.

This report was published to provide context and recommendations for discussion at a roundtable about corporate responsibility. It covers the themes: 'supply chain opportunities, challenges and multinational enterprise responses', 'translating multinational enterprise responses into broader operational principles and standards for responsible supply chain management', and 'developing guidance on the application of the OECD guidelines to supply chain relationships'.