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to me promoting as DG's is a task that
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we all have
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effective of what we do where we work
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and I think that the good news for all
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of us is that the companies whether
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there are multinational companies like
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in this case or any other company that
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they are realizing more and more that
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their operations have to be sustainable
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or if they are financing projects that
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that those projects have to be
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sustainable I really like the fact that
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UN has come up with SDGs because I think
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it gives us all a common task a common
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framework and every single company or
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every single bank or every single
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institution or every single individual
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can find him or herself somewhere within
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that space and we're very privileged
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when we work for the World Bank group
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that we can work across all the 16s DG's
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and can lead the partnerships on the SDG
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17 which is very much needed to develop
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it but I have to say that my own
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daughter thinks about SDGs and she
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thinks what she does with her bottle of
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water or with the food that's left and
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how she can help other people poor
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people in the country where where her
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origin is so I really think that it's
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it's it's everybody's embracing now the
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SDGs and I think there is so much logic
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in trying to pursue sustainable
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solutions and and working through
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whatever means you have whether it's in
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your own home or in your own community
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on your own company or in your own
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country to contribute to the SDGs but I
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think on a broader scale we are looking
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at working with governments to come up
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with plans for SDGs which will of course
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involve all the players in the countries
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from private sector companies
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educational institutions and others on
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how they will implement it because we
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should remember that we have only 13
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years left perhaps even less so to
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complete this ambitious set of goals
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this is fantastic and very challenging
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question how an individual or small
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group of young people can impact the way
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how organizations deliver on this
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particular topic in fact it's very
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interesting when I joined the World Bank
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and it was nearly 30 years ago Jim
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Wolfensohn was the president of the
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World Bank and one of his main ideas was
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how to engage young professional inside
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the
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Bank to engage in the mainstreaming the
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the World Bank agenda and that was for
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me a tremendous learning experience
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which can kind of replicate in many
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other companies usually you have the top
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management dedicated to these issues
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very good Public Relation explaining
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that things but there is always
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resistance from the middle management
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because it's not just a matter of saying
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we will do this now we will do this
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differently it's about changing the
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culture inside the institution and
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that's very complex and I think that's
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the space when young professionals
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inside this institution can come with
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ideas which will resonate at least with
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that overall strategy of the company
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look very carefully what is in your
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corporate strategy and what is actually
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happening in that space of sustainable
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development are distinct mostly
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philanthropic engagements or these
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issues are fully integrated in the
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corporate strategy is not just a matter
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of individual projects but is a matter
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of overall engagement of the companies
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and so on so there are very different
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ways to enter and generate and support
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the conversation inside the company but
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to get the credibility the critical
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credibility that you are bringing
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something you think in innovative way
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how some of these major initiatives in
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their company can be informed by the
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fact that you are young people how do
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you get the other young people to come
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with different insights and proposals
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how the company can deal with that and
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I'm pretty sure you will be getting the
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support from the top management because
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they need you and the planet needs you
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it's not just about changing the a one
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single company it's about really
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changing how young people organize
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themselves with substance the capacity
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of implementation and become the main
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drivers behind the sustainable
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development goals and we are here to
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work with us with you
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you
