BUS604: Innovation and Sustainability

This report has presented the case for businesses to concentrate on solving the world's greatest challenges that the Global Goals set out to overcome. There is much more than US$12 trillion of value at stake. There is the opportunity to shape a safer, more prosperous world with a more predictable future in which to invest and innovate. There is the chance to rebuild trust between business and wider society. 

Achieving the Global Goals would make the world more sustainable, inclusive, and full of opportunities for everyone. There would be many challenges still, but societies would be better equipped to tackle them. The alternative is more uncertainty, intensifying risks, growing social and environmental costs, and bigger shocks. Reaching that better world depends on business leaders in the private sector choosing to lead the charge for sustainable growth. 

The members of the Business and Sustainable Development Commission have chosen to lead our own companies towards the Global Goals. With this report, we urge others to join us, whether you are already a CEO, board member, or individual driving progress in your firm; in your first executive role on track to running a company, large, medium, or small, within the next ten years; or a recent graduate or student in higher education hoping to start a company that will be a powerful innovator in sustainable markets.