Global Compact is an initiative launched by former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan in January 1999.
Global Compact is a call to businesses worldwide to help build social and environmental frameworks that ensure open and free markets and assist people everywhere secure a chance to share the benefits of the new global economy.
Ten universal principles
The Global Compact encompasses 10 principles spanning everything from international declarations on human rights and labour rights to environment and corruption issues.
COWI's participation in the Global Compact requires that we produce an annual progress report documenting our ongoing efforts to support the 10 Global Compact Principles.
"The UN Global Compact with its ten principles is a natural framework for our commitment to sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR). As an international corporation we value the global nature of the initiative and support the wide-ranging principles focusing on environment, social activities to anti-corruption," says CEO Lars-Peter Søbye.
Download COWI's Global Compact report (pdf)
