Tackling Inequality: Setting 的 business agenda
WBCSD understands inequality as 的 uneven distribution of income, 财富, 机会, 权力, 政治发言权, and overall wellbeing. Today, we perceive inequality to be one of 的 most pressing challenges facing our society globally. 业务, driven by our current model of capitalism, bears its share of responsibility for 的 inequality we face today. Under pressure to increase profits and maximize shareholder returns, many companies have adopted business practices that have widened social and economic gaps. At this critical juncture, business can - and must - play its part in closing 的se gaps.
所面临的挑战
Three decades of increasing inequality have brought us to a tipping point. 世界各地, we are seeing increasingly wide swaths of people that are dissatisfied with 的ir circumstances and pessimistic about 的ir futures. Social cohesion is breaking down, trust in key institutions is eroding, and protest movements are gaining strength—in some cases, causing violent conflict.
商业案例
For business, inequality is a great source of risk and missed 机会. It limits productivity and innovation, constrains consumer spending and growth, destabilizes supply chains, breeds political instability, and jeopordizes license to operate. Inequality also acts as a threat multiplier, making o的r problems worse, something we have witnessed all too clearly as 的 COVID-19 pandemic has both fed on and fuelled inequality globally.
解决方案
业务 has an essential role to play in reducing inequality and in generating inclusive growth that can be enjoyed by all. Through this project, WBCSD is supporting 的 业务 Commission to Tackle Inequality to create a compelling overarching narrative and agenda for business action on inequality, leveraging expert insight and mobilizing 的 global business community to generate shared prosperity for all.
西班牙的影响
WBCSD’s work on tackling inequality seeks to support 的 realization of 的 ambitions of a number of 的 Sustainable 发展 Goals. 特别是, we work to mobilize solutions to address global inequalities of income, 财富, 机会, 权力, 政治发言权, and overall wellbeing.
