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Sustainable investors are integrating Global Child Forum’s benchmark data on children’s rights into investment and stewardship strategies
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Whether you’re a financial analyst or sustainability professional, your decisions have the power to effect children’s lives in a positive way.
You can achieve this by incorporating children’s rights into the heart of your sustainability and business strategies. First, find out if your company or investment has a benchmark score – then discover how well children’s rights are incorporated into the business.
Learn more about The Corporate Sector and Children’s Rights Benchmark and our company universe here.
The State of Children’s Rights & Business 2023
Global Child Forum has benchmarked 1,108 companies, distributed across eight sectors and six regions, against a set of 25 indicators.
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Since 2013, Global Child Forum has been benchmarking the world’s most influential companies, assessing how they respond to children’s rights. Our data can be used by corporates to increase their social impact, and for investors to inform their decision-making.
The scores in this top list come from the Global Benchmark 2023, and are based on the total selection of 1108 companies – find out more about which companies were benchmarked here.
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Our business case is clear – when societies do better, we do better! When children have their rights, when they are empowered, society flourishes and so do businesses.
Zainab Hussain Siddiqui
VP Sustainability at Telenor
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Benchmark data helps investors incorporate children’s rights into thematic funds, active ownership and investment strategies.
CATHARINA BELFRAGE SAHLSTRAND
GROUP HEAD OF SUSTAINABILITY AT SVENSKA HANDELSBANKEN
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In October, Global Child Forum, on behalf of Their Majesties, the King and Queen of Sweden, is hosting its next invitation-only global forum on children’s rights and business at the Royal Palace in Stockholm, Sweden.
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