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Explore the latest media coverage and news highlights showcasing the CFO Coalition's impact in advancing sustainable finance and the SDGs.

CFOs can have a ‘transformative impact’ on sustainability, says UN Global Compact CEO

Sustainability is the CFO's new best friend. Here's why

Demands are growing from all sides for companies to take sustainability seriously.

Gender discrimination in finance holds back women - and investment

We need more women in senior roles in finance to build inclusive institutions and allocate capital more rationally and fairly

How CFOs Are Leading the Way to Sustainability

Finance captains of big companies have always directed influential investments. Now 60 of them have come together to put $500 billion toward achieving UN sustainability goals.

How the right business decisions can finance our sustainable future

The Italian energy company Enel and others are harnessing corporate cooperation to drive investment into global sustainability

Finance Chiefs Call on Executives to Help Fight Poverty, Climate Change

CFOs at global companies urge their counterparts to make investment decisions that help achieve the U.N.’s Sustainable Development Goals

We have built the groundwork for a broad coalition of CFOs globally to harness the full potential of corporate finance to empower the sustainability transition for thousands of companies in the UN Global Compact.

Four principles of sustainable finance

The CFO Principles supplement the UN Global Compact’s Ten Principles to support companies in the transition to sustainable development and to leverage corporate finance and investments toward the realization of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).