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United Nations Global Compact
McInnes Cooper and the United Nations Global Compact
As global trends emerge and evolve, organizations bear increasing accountability for their operational impact on people and the planet. Through mandated benchmarks and customer influence, companies must align business practices with Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) standards.
At McInnes Cooper, we acknowledge our responsibility to operate ethically, and we continually build capacity to serve our clients in accordance with ESG standards.
To guide us in this work and to validate our effort, McInnes Cooper leverages membership in the United National Global Compact (UN Global Compact).
About the United Nations Global Compact
As a special initiative of the UN Secretary-General, the United Nations Global Compact is a call to companies everywhere to align their operations and strategies within the areas of human rights, labour, environment, and anti-corruption. The ambition is to accelerate and scale the global collective impact of business by upholding the Ten Principles and delivering the Sustainable Development Goals through accountable companies and ecosystems that enable change. With more than 15,000 companies and 3,000 non-business signatories based in over 160 countries, and 69 Local Networks, the UN Global Compact is the world’s largest corporate sustainability initiative — one Global Compact uniting business for a better world.
For more information, follow @globalcompact on social media and visit their website at unglobalcompact.org.
How UN Global Compact Makes us Better
Having joined in late 2022, McInnes Cooper leverages its membership with UN Global Compact to guide and measure our ESG performance leading to tangible impact. This includes:
- Influence on Strategy: UN Global Compact and its principles are part of the strategy, culture, and day-to-day operations of our company, and we commit to engage in collaborative projects that advance the Sustainable Development Goals.
- Alignment with ESG Services: Our involvement with UN Global Compact better equips our lawyers and staff to provide ESG-related services to our clients. Through education and accelerator programs on emerging topics, our members are building knowledge and capacity to address our clients’ ESG requirements.
- Educational Resources: Through the UN Global Compact Academy, our members have access to a robust learning platform with educational resources on key sustainability topics.
- Communication on Progress: We report annually based on UN Global Compact requirements, providing insights into the concrete steps we are taking to advance our sustainability efforts. View McInnes Cooper’s UN Global Compact profile and recent communications on progress.
