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