Ben Ngobi TITLE : GLOBAL SUPPLIER INCLUSION & SUSTAINABILITY LEAD
advantage through ESG compliance . Our major ESG goals are helping eliminate hunger and gender inequality , while securing equal education for all . We ’ ve also created a five-year sustainability roadmap with help from Accenture .
HOW CAN COMPANIES DRIVE ESG COMPLIANCE IN THEIR SUPPLY CHAINS ? CL : This is a crucial area for companies to focus on . If you don ’ t know where your products are coming from , you ' ve got a serious business risk . I appreciate that some sectors have complex , fragmented supply chains .
In textiles for example , where does the cotton come from that ends up in the spinning mills ? But someone always knows . There ' s always some way of doing it .
It would be nice if we had better governments that oversaw good regulation and a healthy culture of trade unions , because then workers , farmers and producers could stand up for their own rights . But a lot of the time , we don ’ t , so the onus is on businesses .
If businesses campaigned collectively for strong regulation and trade unions , this would make life much easier for them in terms of ESG compliance in the extended tiers of their supply chain . It ’ s a challenging journey , and we need to work collectively towards change .
Ben Ngobi TITLE : GLOBAL SUPPLIER INCLUSION & SUSTAINABILITY LEAD
COMPANY : ACCENTURE INDUSTRY : BUSINESS SERVICES LOCATION : UK
HOW CAN BUSINESSES STRUGGLING WITH ESG BEST BE HELPED ? BN : To make headway on ESG you need to get senior leadership involvement , and you also need to reach out to people like me – people who are invested in helping businesses reduce their environmental
Ben Ngobi is Global Supplier
Inclusion & Sustainability Lead at Accenture , where he helps organisations embed ESG initiatives in their operations . Ngobi is also involved with several nonprofit organisations around supplier inclusion and sustainability .
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