Global goals: Are SDGs all about self-interest for business?

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PwC's Malcolm Preston urges businesses to sign up to the world's new Sustainable Development Goals

It's been a two year process to bring many stakeholders (including governments and business) to the table to discuss and to agree the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. And now, the UN member states have...

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