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        The new five-year plan equips enterprises, catalyzes collective action, and enhances responsible business leadership - thanks to the updated 'Progress Communication' and strengthened regional networks.

        The United Nations Global Compact was announced todayIts 2026-2030 strategyThis is a five-year plan aimed at helping businesses transform their sustainable vision into measurable outcomes and systemic changes to address increasing climate, social, and geopolitical pressures. This strategy is based on the ten principles of the United Nations Global Compact and aligned with the United Nations 2030 Agenda, aimed at addressing the challenges of climate change, increasing inequality, geopolitical instability, and reshaping trust crises in a world where any sector can solve them individually.

        The core of strategy is three key areas that jointly drive enterprises from commitment to influence: equipping enterprise actions; Catalyzing collective action; And promote business cases. Through tailored digital support, the United Nations Global Compact will help businesses integrate ten principles into their operations; Convene a business led alliance to eliminate systemic barriers such as policy fragmentation and financing gaps; And plan data-driven evidence to link responsible leadership with long-term value creation.

        The modern 'Progressive Communication' (CoP) has now become a simplified digital platform that will provide strategic support with similar disclosures, peer benchmarks, and decision level insights. In 2024, nearly 15000 CoP submissions showcased the platform's influence, translating transparency into action and strengthening accountability in various markets.

        Enterprise participants will be able to enjoy a digitally customized learning journey, carefully planned tools and guidance, peer communities and accelerator projects, supported by CoP driven insights, set science based and time limited goals, integrate human rights due diligence, manage water use, combat corruption, and align capital with sustainable development goal outcomes. The alliance led by enterprises will solve obstacles that cannot be solved by a single enterprise, while CoP and research evidence will help leaders defend investment and scaling.

        Collective action will focus on four essential high impact areas for private sector leaders: climate and nature; Decent work and living wage; Gender equality and sustainable finance. These alliances will mobilize CEO level advocacy, coordinate supplier expectations, advance public policy solutions, and gather capital to demonstrate how coordinated interventions can change incentive mechanisms and achieve cross market progress.

        To showcase value and expand effective solutions, the United Nations Global Compact will advance business cases through structured analysis and real data from thousands of companies worldwide, including collaborations with Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) and academic partners. This evidence base will help the board of directors and investors combine sustainable development performance with resilience, innovation, and growth.

        Sanda Ogianbo, CEO and Executive Director of the United Nations Global Compact, commented on the new strategy, stating, "The strategy aims to achieve goals and real-world outcomes, enabling businesses from small and medium-sized enterprises to multinational corporations to translate principle based commitments into measurable progress and establish market driven alliances at the local, regional, and global levels. In times of geopolitical fragmentation and economic uncertainty, our responsibility is to connect policy and business through practical tools, credible accountability, and partnerships, and drive solutions to scale. Responsible business is not a sideline - it is the core of long-term value creation and a more stable, investable global economy

        This strategy is based on the expanding global influence of the agreement, and now has over 23000 companies in more than 160 countries through five regional hubs and active national networks, achieving project localization and aligning corporate actions with national priorities.