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Trailblazers and Transformers How UK Business Can Deliver Greater Social Impact

Trailblazers and Transformers: How UK Business Can Deliver Greater Social Impact

With less than five years left to achieve the SDGs, a new UN Global Compact Network UK report benchmarks how six high-impact UK business sectors are performing. While companies show strong social sustainability progress, environmental action still lags. The findings offer a roadmap for aligning strategy, policy, and investment to accelerate UK leadership on the SDGs.
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Legislating Humanity to Change the System, with Maaria Mozaffar
In this episode, legislative attorney and human rights strategist Maaria Mozaffar shares how inclusive policy starts with empathy, not slogans. From writing human-centred laws to challenging systemic inequity, she reveals how anyone can shape justice. Tune in for a powerful conversation on dignity, courage, and transforming disillusionment into action.
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The AI Divide Is Growing: Why the Future of Youth Entrepreneurship Rests on a Knife Edge

Artificial intelligence offers enormous potential to level the playing field for young entrepreneurs — but without urgent action, it risks deepening inequality. Drawing on insights from Youth Business International’s policy paper, this article explores how business, policymakers, and support organisations can collaborate to close the AI divide and build a more inclusive future for entrepreneurship.
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Adapting to the Changing Aid Landscape
Corporate foundations stand at a pivotal moment in global development. As abrupt cuts to government aid flows create life-threatening gaps, this new report explores how corporate foundations can help shape a more financially sustainable approach to tackling poverty and inequality worldwide. Drawing on the latest data, global financing trends and insights from the development community, it highlights the scale of the challenge, rising needs, falling ODA, shrinking FDI and escalating debt, and the profound human impacts these shifts are already causing. With Standard Chartered Foundation and the Business Fights Poverty Institute.
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Beauty with Purpose: How Avon is Empowering Women and Driving Sustainability

Beauty with Purpose: How Avon is Empowering Women and Driving Sustainability

Avon is redefining beauty through purpose-driven sustainability. From empowering millions of Representatives to innovative cruelty-free and refillable products, Avon’s strategy integrates climate action, ethical sourcing and gender equity. This article explores how Avon’s inclusive business model and ESG commitments are creating lasting social impact across communities and supply chains.
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How Can We Put People at the Heart of Climate Action: Reflections from Belém and Beyond This Insights Paper explores how climate action becomes effective only when rooted in people’s lived realities. Drawing on the Live Panel Discussion from Belém, Belo Horizonte and our global online community during COP30, it highlights how extreme weather, unstable planting seasons and unsafe household energy are reshaping daily life across regions. The discussion shows why aligning climate action with local context, long-term economic viability and inclusive leadership is essential. The paper sets out five insights: focusing climate strategies on real vulnerability rather than abstract risk; translating sustainability goals into commercial incentives; redesigning partnerships to be genuinely locally led; strengthening cross-sector collaboration to rebuild
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Environmental Justice and Multidimensional Poverty: Intersectoral Climate Action

This article explores how climate change deepens multidimensional poverty and why environmental justice must be central to policy and business. It calls for joint, intersectoral solutions to tackle overlapping vulnerabilities and highlights the role of the private sector in driving social and environmental resilience.
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From Promises to Implementation
In this COP30 follow-up conversation, Jamie Coates, CEO of Wise Responder, guest professor at Fundação Dom Cabral (FDC), and the Business Fights Poverty representative at COP30, speaks with Vicky Sins from the World Benchmarking Alliance (WBA) about what COP30 revealed for corporate climate accountability. Vicky believes that we must move beyond big promises. Companies need credible, integrated transition plans backed by investments, with people and nature at the centre. Part of the Business Fights Poverty Climate Series 2025.
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Together for 2026

Together for 2026
At the start of every year, the Business Fights Poverty community comes together to explore how we can collectively navigate the opportunities and challenges of the year ahead. This online event is a unique opportunity to connect, share insights, and collaborate on key trends and strategies to deepen partnerships for impact.  
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