World Benchmarking Alliance: 99 per cent of leading firms are failing to be socially responsible

Cecilia Keating
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Workers in a distribution centre | Credit: iStock
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Workers in a distribution centre | Credit: iStock

Report warns vast majority of businesses are entrenching social inequalities that will undermine climate action

With just eight years to go until the deadline for the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the world's largest companies are nowhere near on track to address major sustainability challenges in a...

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