Annual Letter 2023 - CEO UN Global Compact

Gender equality is good for business! It has been shown that having women in leadership positions in companies has a positive effect on financial results. However, the World Economic Forum (WEF) Global Gender Gap Report 2022 estimates that it will take women more than 151 years to achieve full economic and participatory empowerment, and 132 years to close the gap. world genre. This is an unacceptable timeline that robs our marketplace of the benefits that gender equity creates in the workplace. On International Women's Month and International Women's Day, from the United Nations Global Compact we encourage you to scale up your work towards gender equality. We share 5 tools that companies can use to accelerate progress for gender equality in the workplace, the market and society: 1. Learning Route on gender equality The Learning Path is intended to help you understand what it means to take action for gender equality. In a fast and entertaining way, it offers you frameworks and tools to gain internal acceptance, add male alliances, set ambitious goals and defend gender equality from activism. At the same time, it includes outstanding success stories from various companies worldwide so that you can learn through examples. The content is virtual, open, free and in Spanish. Share it with your team, vendors, customers, and more! 2. Sign the Women's Empowerment Principles (WEPs) Established by the United Nations Global Compact in partnership with UN Women, the Women's Empowerment Principles (or WEPs) are a set of guidelines for businesses on promoting gender equality and empowerment. empowerment of women. Join more than 7,000 CEOs from the world's most influential companies who have signed WEPs and have committed to promoting gender equality in their companies. Learn more about the implementation of WEPs in Latin America through this cycle of open training sessions in Spanish. 3. Join the meetings of the UN Commission on the Legal and Social Status of Women (March 6 to 17, 2023) Every year, the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CCJSM) organizes a ten-day session where business, academia, governments and civil society come together to discuss critical issues related to gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls. This year at the CCJSM meeting, the United Nations Global Compact is convening business leaders from around the world to explore how the private sector can accelerate gender equality and unlock leadership, technological change and innovation to address the biggest challenges in the world. It is not too late to participate. 4. Start your due diligence for gender equality The Women's Empowerment Principles Gap Analysis Tool ( WEP Tool ) helps your company identify strengths, gaps and opportunities to improve its gender equality performance. Developed in consultation with more than 170 companies, it is a free, easy and confidential online tool that will help you evaluate your company's policies and programs and improve your approach to diversity, equity and inclusion. 5. Join the more than 1,400 companies participating in Target Gender Equality Target Gender Equality is an accelerator program of the UN Global Compact that includes capacity building workshops, peer learning and dialogue with experts facilitated in Spanish to promote the implementation of strategies and initiatives for gender equality in companies. Over nine months, this guided training supports the development of ambitious goals for women's representation and leadership in the workplace. It will equip your company with the resources to set its own ambitious and realistic corporate goals for gender equality. More importantly, it will give you a roadmap to meet these goals through actionable plans. * Exclusive program for companies participating in the UN Global Compact.

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Within the framework of our line of work on climate ambition, from the UN Global Compact, on December 12, 2022, the regional event "COP 27: Climate action takes the lead" was held with more than 140 attendees from all over the world. Latin America. The 27th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change 2022 (COP 27) that took place in November in Sharm-El-Sheikh, Egypt, culminated in a historic agreement that included the creation of a fund for Loss and damage financing for countries particularly vulnerable to the adverse effects of climate change. In this activity, the implications of the conclusions of the Conference in terms of public policy and for the private sector were addressed by experts from the United Nations system and the UN Global Compact who were present at the work sessions in Egypt. . Likewise, we have the testimony of representatives of two companies in the region who shared with us first-hand their experiences in Sharm-El-Sheikh and how they lived the deliberation sessions. The event was attended by: Natalia Fontanet: Climate Ambition Accelerator Coordinator, UN Global Compact (Argentina) Lucas Ribeiro: Climate Ambition Accelerator Lead, UN Global Compact (Global) María Eugenia Di Paola: Environment and Sustainable Development Coordinator – UNDP (Argentina) Jorge López – Doriga: Global Director of Communication and Sustainability – Grupo Aje (Peru) Juan Fernando Patiño Díez: Project leader Jaguar Connection – ISA (Colombia) Marcelo López: Associate Consultant, UN Global Compact (Argentina) >>> Relive the exclusive event for UN Global Compact participants by clicking here . *Regional virtual event developed in collaboration with the UN Global Compact in Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Central America, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru and Paraguay.