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Webinar: Relationship Between the UN Sustainable Development Goals and the Guiding Principles

In this webinar, Shift President Caroline Rees says that for business to realize its full contribution to sustainable development, it must put efforts to advance respect for human rights at the heart of its strategy.

September 2016

This webinar snippet is shared courtesy of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, which hosted the webinar in September 2016.

Also see: Shift paper for the Business and Sustainable Development Commission on the Guiding Principles-SDGs connection | Shift President Caroline Rees’ Viewpoint on this same topic | John Ruggie’s February 2016 letter to the Commission

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This resource was published by Shift Project on September 22, 2016
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