Impact Forum 2021: The 2000 most influential companies, according to WBA

El World Benchmarking Alliance, a panel dedicated to the 2000 most influential companies for a better world, of which 23 are Spanish, has closed the Impact Forum From this year

Victoria Márquez-Mees, member of the WBA Board of Trustees and director of European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBDR), and María Herrero, partner of Transcendent, they have closed the Impact Forum 2021 Which, like every year, organizes Ship2B, and that once again it has been one of the reference events of Impact Economics.

For the closing session of the event, both directives focused their intervention on publicizing the role of companies in Impact Economics, through the rankings drawn up by the World Benchmarking Alliance of the United Nations (WBA).

Rankings that include 7 drivers, from social (in which all companies participate) to other more specific sectors such as Nature, Financial System, Agriculture and Food, Digital Inclusion, Energy and Climate and Urban.

These rankings include the 2000 companies that have been considered, as Márquez-Mees explained, to be the most influential in their respective sectors around the world “either because of their sales, or because of their production chain, or because of their footprint in a developing country, or because of their impact on the supply chain...”.

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The 23 Spanish companies included in the Ranking

Of those 2000 companies that have been elected in their different sectors, 23 are Spanish and the publication of the indices and the transformation efforts of these 2000 companies will be made public in 2023.

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When there are less than ten years left until all of us together reach the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the question that has been asked is, what role do companies want to play? Because the company has become the engine of change and sustainability indices, including those of the WBA, are a lever to promote this transformation.

In 2023 the World Benchmarking Alliance will make public the data of these 2000 companies, so that governments, suppliers, investors, employees, consumers and citizens can access the World Ranking of the most sustainable companies committed to the common good.

“Our desire is for Spanish companies to lead this ranking”, said María Herrero that, together with Victoria Márquez-Mees, they have agreed to make a call to action so that these 23 large Spanish companies accelerate to be in the top positions of this unprecedented career, which will mark a before and after in the business model of leadership.

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