That’s the first industry we focused on. So those are three facts and three actions as we head into the 2020s the 10 years when we need to deliver on the SDGs and the vision of the Paris agreement. Aron speaks frequently at leading business forums and is widely quoted in top-tier media such as the Financial Times, Le Figaro (France), The New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal. Edie Lush:  47:55   Adios, Happy holidays, whatever you celebrate. Paul Polman is Co-founder and Chair of IMAGINE, a benefit corporation and foundation accelerating business leadership to achieve the Global Goals. Paul Polman: 00:42 If you get enough people together in the private sector, you get a collective courageous behavior and we believe, and we’ve already seen some proof of that, that as a result, we can drive the implementation of the sustainable development goals a little bit fast on, hopefully make this world a better place for everybody. “We have a fight against the clock here.”. New Speaker: 46:11 You don’t need to be a meteorologist to know which way the wind blows. And obviously the broader society at large needs to function. Two of them I think tell us the urgency we need to work with and one of them is a sign of real progress. And also no one has really measured what can really be achieved by corporation when it comes to the SDGs. We don’t have to do it this way. Right? Climate affects over 20% of the climate effects actually come from food and land use. There’s a design to the current system on it and we need to redesign something better. Now there is a truth that the invisible hand will not automatically correct ourselves and there are tragedies of the comments that are increasingly transparent and one of them is that we don’t have a price on these externalities and the resource use earth overshoot day this year was July 29th which means that we use 60% more resources than this earth can replenish. Mercedes has made very aggressive agreements. So more pressure is coming from them. Paul Polman:   31:26  There was once a year right now, not to be named, but he has all his board members, internal board members to write a letter to their children and what they would be telling their children they would be doing and then converting from those chains. She is global Head of the EY Beacon Institute and an executive director of Ernst & Young LLP in its Global Markets group. Although we still have to break the gridlock that is paralyzing. You would say? But right now, people don’t trust innovation. I’d say we’d put this group together on the floor of the Aral Sea because you can be on the floor of the Aral Sea right now. Right? Edie Lush: 40:55  Without that you can imagine much more radical approaches taking hold or just a retreat to short term thinking. That central, it’s not too political, it’s absolutely important. Speaker 7:  44:00 And we’ve also seen two of the six largest economies in the world, California and the United Kingdom commit to net zero by 2050 so three facts. What’s the big challenge that the world needs from us? “many of the women,” MacKenzie says, “also have ambitions of their own. Aron joined BSR in 1995 as the founding director of its Business and Human Rights Program, and later opened BSR’s Paris office in 2002, where he worked until becoming President and CEO in 2004. What an interesting conversation. IMAGINE is a new type of business collaboration for systems change. Speaker 1: 15:02 How do you tackle something like the auto industry? That will definitely happen. Edie Lush:  36:56 And do you see the connection to John Lennon, Yoko Ono, and imagine John Lennon was a poet and poets offer us visions, dreams. And it’s a state controlled industry in many cases, which makes it especially difficult because for many of these governments, it’s an enormous source of revenue. Edie Lush:10:51  Pre-competitive meaning? It takes one, two, three to start to tip it. We need standards on batteries. With deep expertise in transformation, she helps global corporations become purpose-led and future-fit -- and convenes cross-sector coalitions to accelerate tipping points for humanity’s Global Goals. Valerie Keller Member. She has spent many years living and working overseas in London, Barcelona and Johannesburg. If you’ve got to start pricing risk and a completely different way, then. It makes a lot of sense in tourism, you see the same thing, a lot of child labor still in tourism that exposes tourism to its negative side. He was CEO of Unilever for 10 years where he demonstrated that a long-term, multi-stakeholder model goes hand-in-hand with good financial performance. With deep expertise in transformation, she helps global corporations become purpose-led and future-fit — and convenes cross-sector coalitions to accelerate tipping points for humanity’s Global Goals. Autres personnes nommées Valérie Keller. A good example of a, an area that is what we would call pre-competitive. Valerie Keller, Co-founder and CEO, Imagine (P) Alexander Rhodes, Head of Mishcon Purpose (V) Costas Michaelides, Chairman of the Board, National Bank of Greece (P) Mete Coban MBE, Founder and Chief Executive, My Life My Say (P) Moderated by Alison Smale, Journalist and former UN Undersecretary General for Global Communications, and former Executive Editor of the International … Co-Founder, Imagine. Paul Polman sets up activist corporation called Imagine, As CEO, Polman pushed for social, environmental causes. So having all these businesses really focus on inequality at the same time. Secondly, let’s talk about income inequality. We also work in conjunction with a global nonprofit BSR, which stands for Business for Social Responsibility. It’s very difficult. Edie Lush: 17:07 But first, here’s Laura McKinsey from our sponsor, MasterCard, who’s providing those same garment factory workers, long overdue financial inclusion and a possible future beyond the factories. I think that is possible. And he goes back and he has a conversation with his board and his management team and then he asked Paul to come out and have a conversation with his management team. Where you have a state was in a country that is more ambitious and a government that has set different targets, often driven by political interest and election cycles. Edie Lush: 19:57 Thanks to Laura McKenzie, she’s senior vice president from our sponsor, MasterCard. So from that point of view, better capitalism is the best path to achieving the SDGs. They don’t actually want their children to remain garment workers as they are. New Speaker: 46:28  So send us your suggestions, the listeners for our Global Goalscast SDGs playlist to us on Twitter, LinkedIn, and Instagram. It really in order to solve the issue of climate change, you need all the political will, the policies, but also trillions and trillions and trillions of dollars. There is still disbelieve in some of them in the industry that it costs money. They have named the firm, Imagine, after the song. They all have children at home and these children are saying, I don’t want you to be my parents anymore. Obviously you have leaders and laggers there, but don’t forget they’re all parents. Facts and Actions “to help meet the moment…the decisive decade of the 2020s” are from a leading expert in sustainable business, Aron Cramer, President and CEO of BSR, a not-for-profit which advises companies on sustainability. And the question is, can we get them up to that level? John Lennon, Bob Dylan, who else? They’re called Paul Pullman and Valerie Keller . We’re at that tipping point and if you also look in these industries, what you want to solve, let’s take the food and land use industry, 826 million people still going to bed hungry every night, not knowing if they wake up the next day. Valerie Keller: 21:25 contributing to biodiversity loss at a rapid rate as well. They can put away funds for their children and their families and they can continue to support their families both locally in and around, but also overseas. They are from one of the most successful songs of all time, Imagine, by John Winston Lennon. Valerie Keller: 00:31 If you want to change the trajectory of kind of the collective behavior, sometimes you can actually just shift by the murmuring of a few birds, right? Paul Polman:29:44 it’s a big de-carbonization movement happening now. University of Oxford - Said Business School, +3 more. On this episode, Edie Lush and Claudia Romo Edelman discuss Imagine and talk with two of the founders, Paul Polman, former CEO of Unilever, and Valerie Keller, a well-known CEO whisperer, coach and expert in transformational business leadership. Autres personnes nommées Valérie Keller. Voir le profil de Valérie Keller sur LinkedIn, le plus grand réseau professionnel mondial. See the complete profile on LinkedIn and discover Valerie’s connections and jobs at similar companies. We’re actually well behind on our current trajectory globally. In fact, climate change right now is driving more people into poverty. And here again, triple on tourism alone, it’s about a 10% of carbon emissions. Exactly. “Imagine all the people, living life in peace….no need for greed or hunger, a brotherhood of man.”. Paul Polman at the One Planet Summit in New York on Sept. 26. Polman said he regards the private sector as the “main engine for change.” Valerie Keller and Jeff Seabright, Unilever’s chief sustainability officer, are co-founders of Imagine. Edie and Claudia discuss Imagine, the company’s place in what they describe as a movement to create a “better capitalism,” not replace it. and yeah. I think what we are really seeing in as well to as many people are dreaming for a better world than we have currently. Well, just this week we’ve heard from the UN that the world needs to reduce emissions 7.6% per year during the 2020s in order to keep warming below 1.5 degrees. Safety in numbers. Claudia Edelman: 46:51 There you go. Valerie Keller:00:09  We were looking at pictures of children as young as four and five who because their fingers are so small, right? Paul Polman:15:33   While you’re pointing out here, a specific issue was California. So there’s a deliberate conversation that says we don’t have to do it that way. Valerie Keller: 30:36it’s interesting as I’m thinking back to, and Paul, we were in, um, in Davos actually where we launched soft launched, imagine a little bit, but we had a CEO of Allianz who Paul knows, well Oliver Bate. The foundation and corporation, called Imagine, will work with companies to press for meeting global goals for sustainable development. So we’re looking at, you know, kind of leveraging the learnings about what we’ve seen work well elsewhere, where you’ve been able to kind of bring together CEOs of companies who might otherwise be in competitive spaces and together make decisions on it. It feels really great what we’ve been able to help to support and catalyzed and tell us what you have been able to. No CEO wants a child in their value chain, in their supply chain to be going to bed hungry. That’s the other thing. Edie Lush: 42:27 For this episode’s facts and actions section where as you know, we give you three facts that you can take away and look smart in front of your mother-in-law at the Christmas dinner table. Paul Polman: 06:11  We started working intensively together about a year ago when we were thinking about the transition at Unilever and some people were concerned outside of the company more than inside that if I would retire, that our focus on driving this more sustainable and equitable business model grounded in the sustainable development goals, multi-stakeholder longer term, that that would be challenged. Doesn’t it? Second one is we badly need innovation in order to achieve the sustainable development goals. It really helps. When you have a man like Paul Polman that is both a man of action but also a man of ideas, you create traction and movements and people that want to follow. Claudia Edelman: 03:50  Yes, how will we curve of global warming and eradicate poverty? 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