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30/07/2018at 13:39

Former Novo Nordisk manager urges CEOs to speed up SDG progress

It has been more than 1,000 days since UN's 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were adopted. The clock is ticking, and companies, institutional investors and top executives must accelerate the pace of progress, says Lise Kingo, CEO of UN Global Compact.
Lise Kingo speaking at the conference "The SDGs in the Arctic: Local and Global Perspectives" Friday 1. December,2017. | Photo: Ritzau Scanpix/Sarah Christine Nørgaard
Thomas Mørch

"I'm a business woman," says Lise Kingo in the interview, to emphasise that her message is directed at top executives.

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