DEMONSTRATE WHY YOU CARE
1. SPEAK UP:
Attend at least two high level meetings during 2015 to visibly demonstrate to policy markers your support of the adoption of the new global UN Sustainable Development Goals and an ambitious agreement to combat climate change.
2. BUILD A BUSINESS CASE:
Be visible in developing business case studies about why the Goals are important to your company and to wider business community.
3. SIGN ON:
Join at least three platforms with other key stakeholders, such as open letters, advertorials and other mass media channels to call for adaptation of an ambitious and actionable sustainable development agenda
MOBILIZE YOUR EMPLOYEES AND OTHER BUSINESS LEADERS TO ENGAGE
4. REACH OUT: Connect to at least three other CEOs to encourage their involvement with the Goals and or the climate change agenda. 5. ENGAGE YOUR EMPLOYEES: Communicate with and educate your employees to help raise awareness of the importance of the Goals and climate agreement in 2015 and beyond. Consider ways in which your employees can become champions or ambassadors for the climate agenda and the Goals most relevant to your company. 6. USE YOUR CHANNELS: Be willing to use your social media channels – Facebook, Twitter, etc – to help support public campaigns to make the Goals famous and accessible to all. BE READY TO SUPPORT IMPLEMENTATION
7. BE A ROLE MODEL: Share knowledge and best practices for sustainability with other companies both within your sector and beyond. 8. START TO INTERNALISE: Develop ways in which your company can internalize and integrate your products and/or services to support the achievement of the Goals and the battle against climate change. 9. ADOPT A GOAL: Begin learning about the multi-stakeholder partnership opportunities developing around individual goals. Identify which goals relate to and matter to your business, then communicate broadly on how you are working toward them. 10. PARTNER: Be open to collaborating with other companies and other stakeholders to develop scalable and transformational partnership models that are aligned with the Goals and/or the climate change agenda. Be prepared to pledge action to help achieve the Goals and climate agenda once adopted at the end of this historic year.
