“There is a growing sense of urgency to drive a sustainability agenda.” “Whilst the principle of Kyosei is nothing new for Canon,” says Peter. “We made a strategic decision to use our scale to help consumers and the planet.” While Canon’s corporate philosophy of ‘Kyosei’ (a Japanese word meaning ‘living and working together for the common good’) has been central to operations for over thirty years. “More than 2.5 billion people use Unilever products each day,” explains Priya. At Unilever, their Sustainable Living Plan has put these issues at the heart of business strategy and operations. The KPMG Survey of Sustainability Reporting 2020 paints a far more positive picture, one where 80% of the world’s companies now report on sustainability and a significant majority connect their activities with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).īut what does this actually mean for their everyday operations? To answer this, Unilever's Head of Corporate Affairs & Sustainability, Priya Sarma Muthur and Canon EMEA's Sustainability & Government Affairs Director, Peter Bragg put big business under the microscope for a special Expo 2020 Dubai edition of Canon Frontiers of Innovation. However, it seems that these fears were unfounded. The events of the last eighteen months led to serious concerns that issues of both the environment and global inequality would be largely side-lined, as both consumers and corporates focused their attention and survival strategies on coping with Covid 19.
What is big business doing to build a better future? More than you might realise.
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