The United Nations Global Compact today launched SDG Ambition, a global impact initiative aimed at challenging and supporting companies to integrate the Sustainable Development Goals into their core businesses.

Launched by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in Davos during the World Economic Forum, the initiative has the support of both SAP and Accenture, and will provide organisations with the management framework to help them incorporate sustainability and the SDGs into their business operations and to measure and manage their performance.

“SAP shares a joint vision with the UN Global Compact and Accenture to mobilise industry around SDG Ambition and scale impact for the 17 Sustainable Development Goals,” said Jennifer Morgan, co-CEO of SAP. “By inspiring our global ecosystems and bringing together our respective areas of expertise, we can empower businesses around the world to use ‘technology for good’ and provide the necessary tools to accelerate achieving the world’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.”

The UN Global Compact Local Networks, located in more than 60 countries, will lead the initiative’s implementation. SDG Ambition aims to engage more than a thousand companies across industries in more than 40 countries to focus their sustainability efforts on high-impact strategies and business models.

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