ACCA’s chief executive joins CSR Europe’s Call to Action for a Sustainable Europe by 2030

04 December 2019

Helen Brand OBE, chief executive of ACCA is now part of the widest group of CEOs ever mobilised in Europe for sustainability, calling on businesses, policymakers, and civil society organisations to join forces in a series of actions.

Helen Brand says: ‘ACCA is a longstanding promoter of taking the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as a compass to make the transformation required towards a socially just transition to a low carbon economy. As the 17 SDGs approach their fifth-year anniversary, leaving just ten years to achieve them by 2030, they are becoming better understood as tools for governments, business, investors and civil society to coalesce around, in order to improve how economies can deliver inclusive and sustainable prosperity. But we still have significant work to do.’

‘We all need to recognise the interconnectedness of social and environmental value. This will require companies to embrace societal purpose and engage with context, precision, resources and determination to understand and disclose impact. Ultimately, it will be the understanding and reporting of societal impact that will radically shift capital and business ecosystems into social and environmental value creation opportunities’ Helen Brand explains.

Full press release on ACCA

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