BEIJING, Sept. 27, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Companies from
over 100 countries demonstrated their support for the Statement
from Business Leaders for Renewed Global Cooperation presented to
UN Secretary - General Antonio
Guterres by Sanda Ojiambo,
the CEO & Executive Director of the UN Global Compact on
September 21, 2020 to mark the UN's
75th anniversary.
As the invited representative of food industry entrepreneurs,
chairman and president of global healthy food producer Yili Group
Pan Gang signed the statement together with over 200 CEOs of major
global companies, including Alex
Gorsky, CEO of Johnson & Johnson, Brad Smith, President of Microsoft, and
Punit Renjen, Global CEO of Deloitte
Global, to express his support for the United Nations' call to
jointly lead the world onto a more equitable, inclusive and
sustainable path of development and to "unite in the business for a
better world".
Pan believes that cooperation for mutual benefit makes all party
stronger winners. And this is what Yili has been promoting all
along. The company takes the initiative to implement the United
Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), promote in-depth
cooperation with its global partners to jointly build a "global
health ecosystem", and endorses sustainable development with
specific programs.
- In 2016, at the United Nations Convention on Biological
Diversity (CBD) in Cancun, Mexico,
Yili signed the Business and Biodiversity Pledge, becoming the
first Chinese company to sign the pledge.
- In 2017, Yili becomes the first Chinese food company to join
the United Nations Global Compact.
- In 2019, Yili signed agreements with 13 global strategic
partners, including Tetra Pak, Cargill and Fin Meiyi, to jointly
build the industry's first "global network for sustainable supply
chain" at the 2nd China International Import Expo.
- In 2020, Yili will launch the "Global Health ecosystem Joint
Initiative" with its global partners DuPont, Chr Hansen, GEA,
Roquette at the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting to draw a
blueprint for a "global health ecosystem " and promote the
sustainable development of the entire industry chain.
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