
Adam Roy Gordon
@adamroygordon
I lead @GlobalCompactUS, the US chapter of @globalcompact. All tweets my own.
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26-04-2011 12:40:43
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Registration is open for the Business Ambition for Climate Action event live at #COP26! Join me, the UN UN Global Compact and global leaders on 10 Nov., to take stock of the state of the world & drive business ambition on #ClimateAction. 👉 hopin.com/events/busines… #OurOnlyFuture

Join me and my fellow panelists at the UN Global Compact's Business Ambition for Climate Action - Live from COP26, a day-long virtual experience on 10 November 2021, as we discuss US Corporate Climate Ambition. Register here: lnkd.in/eXpiwnKu


Join me and my fellow panelists from Colgate-Palmolive Johnson Controls Nasdaq and SkyPower at the UN Global Compact's Business Ambition for Climate Action - Live from COP26, a day-long virtual experience on 10 November 2021, Register here: lnkd.in/eXpiwnKu


Join me at the UN UN Global Compact’s #TargetGenderEquality LIVE March 15 to learn how the business can disrupt bias & unlock women’s leadership, entrepreneurship & innovation to tackle the world’s greatest challenges! Registration: bit.ly/3EUis4v


Today at the UN Global Compact #LeadersSummit. I'm speaking on USA session on Business, Peace, and Human Rights with illustrious speakers U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Chaplain Barry Black, Sanjeev Khagram of Thunderbird School of Global Management Kelvin A. Baggett of McKesson Corporation, Paula Davis of Colgate Smile, Sheri Meyerhoffer of Canadian Ombudsperson (CORE)


“The world is going through immense changes right now and that is putting a lot of pressure on business and we want to make sure that is in respect of human rights and peace around the world” – Adam Roy Gordon, UN Global Compact USA Engagement Director. #LeadersSummit


“We will not be able to eradicate inequalities unless we are aware of the many ways they manifest” – Adam Roy Gordon, UN Global Compact USA Engagement Director. #LeadersSummit #UnitingBusiness



The UN Private Sector Forum has begun, bringing together business and UN leadership to catalyze action for a sustainable future aligned with the #SDGs. Strong US presence at this important event. #UnitingBusiness UN Global Compact USA UN Global Compact



"The SDGs serve as the world's KPIs...we will not achieve them without the leadership of business" – Adam Roy Gordon, Head of UN Global Compact USA. #UnitingBusiness #SDGSummitUSA


"The SDGs continue to be in further danger of falling off track from where they need to be. The good news is business is seen as a powerful force in driving solutions forward" – Sanda Ojiambo, Assistant Secretary-General; ED & CEO of the UN UN Global Compact. #UnitingBusiness




It is an honor to be in DC today at the Atlantic Council US-Iceland Clean Energy Summit with PM KatrĂn JakobsdĂłttir and other leading Iceland and US voices on a just and rapid clean energy transition. #ourclimatefuture

"ESG belongs in the real world–with its advances, setbacks, messiness, difficult choices, and balancing acts." Sanda Ojiambo fortune.com/2022/10/18/inv…

Join UN Global Compact USA on April 19, 2023, as we host the webinar "Exploring the Role of American Businesses in the Future of Water." In this webinar, @DLaFrance_AWWA, CEO of the American Water Works Association, discusses the "future of water" and its implications for the US private sector. #GlobalGoals



I have spent much of my career in or on the edges of war zones, but nothing quite prepared me for the breadth and depth of human suffering I have witnessed in my three years as the United Nations’ humanitarian chief. My guest essay in The New York Times: nytimes.com/2024/06/17/opi…