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I see business as an ecosystem.
The planet's forests are essential for life.
We put a gender lens on our whole value chain.
The world we want is an enormous responsibility.
I don't have a problem crying when I need to cry.
Many businesses understand the advantages of gender parity.
Companies are the first to see the costs of climate change.
When we empower women, society benefits, grows, and thrives.
As economies have evolved, the nature of work has always changed.
When the climate hurts, people and businesses also feel the pain.
My father worked in a tyre factory. My mother worked as a teacher.
Africa is a vibrant, varied continent with a growing consumer base.
I do not work for the shareholder, to be honest. I work for the customer.
There are some basic human needs that are the same. Everybody wants to succeed.
We cannot choose between [economic] growth and sustainability - we must have both
The moral case for gender equality is obvious. It should not need any explanation.
There is still too much pressure on short-termism in terms of the drivers of success.
Permissible growth in the future has to be based on sustainable and equitable models.
Leadership is not just about giving energy ... it's unleashing other people's energy.
You can put yourself to the purpose of others, and in doing so, you can be better off.
If we achieve our sustainability targets and no one else follows, we will have failed.
Renewable energy could reduce emissions but also create jobs and improve public health.
Let's work together to make our economies strong and our climate sustainable. It can be done.
Empowering women is one of the most important things we - and indeed, every business - can do.
It only takes a handful of sizeable companies to reach a tipping point and to transform markets.
Unilever has been around for 100-plus years. We want to be around for several hundred more years.
I say to a lot of people you have to measure success in terms of progress, not in terms of end state.
As CEO of Unilever, my personal mission is to galvanize our company to be an effective force for good.
I grew up in a small town in the Netherlands which, for years, had been a center of textile production.
I work a lot with blind people in my spare time outside of Unilever, and I count my blessings every day.
It is unacceptable that more than 1 billion people are hungry every day while another billion are obese.
In certain cases, empowering women starts with making their lives easier and removing unnecessary burdens.
Working together on solving something requires a high level of humility and a high level of self-awareness.
Every region in the world faces challenges - and Africa is hugely diverse, so its own challenges are varied.
Large-scale deforestation can be prevented while increasing food production through better, smarter agriculture.
Around the world, businesses and investors are increasingly taking action to climate-proof their own organizations.
Business has a responsibility and opportunity to be the driving force for the advancement of universal human rights.
For Unilever, investing in women is an imperative. The business and social cases for doing so are inextricably linked.
If too many people feel excluded from the system and cannot access its benefits, they will ultimately rebel against it.
Leading businesses are making large strides in ensuring a sustainable future, but ultimately, they can only do so much.
Unless we change direction, models show that the profit of the entire consumer goods sector could be wiped out by 2050.
It is not possible to have a strong, functioning business in a world of increasing inequality, poverty, and climate change.
If we all act together - business, governments, NGOs and citizens and, especially, the young - just imagine the good we could create.
The world faces enormous human development and environmental challenges, from poverty and disease to food security and climate change.
Forest nations willing to do more than their fair share to solve the climate crisis should be rewarded through results-based payments.
Left unchecked, climate change risks not only making the poorest poorer, but pulling the emerging middle classes back into poverty, too.
Too many companies are running their business into the ground, I would argue, by being myopically short-term focused on the shareholder.
Climate change is sometimes misunderstood as being about changes in the weather. In reality it is about changes in our very way of life.
Businesses and governments need to work together and make a joint commitment if we want to address climate change effectively and quickly.
We need new, dynamic models for growth through the sharing economy, using big data to unlock new insights and adopting closed-loop cycles.