A voluntary commitment, backed by a public report every year.

The UN Global Compact is the world's largest corporate sustainability initiative, bringing together more than 20,000 companies across 160-plus countries. Joining is voluntary, but member companies commit to ten universal principles covering human rights, labour standards, the environment and anti-corruption, and to reporting on their progress publicly, year after year.

Member since 2012

Ten principles guide how every group company operates.

Amesto's Corporate Social Values and ethics guidelines are grounded in the UN Declaration of Human Rights, the ILO core conventions and the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises, the same foundations the UN Global Compact's ten principles are built on.

Member companies commit to embedding the ten principles into strategy, culture and day-to-day operations, and to submitting an annual Communication on Progress (CoP) documenting how that work is going.

UN Global Compact website
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Member since 2012

Ten principles guide how every group company operates.

AreaWhat member companies commit to
Human rightsSupport and respect internationally recognised human rights.
Human rightsMake sure the business is never complicit in human rights abuses.
LabourUphold freedom of association and the right to collective bargaining.
LabourWork to eliminate all forms of forced and compulsory labour.
LabourWork toward the effective abolition of child labour.
LabourEliminate discrimination in employment and occupation.
EnvironmentSupport a precautionary approach to environmental challenges.
EnvironmentTake initiatives that promote greater environmental responsibility.
EnvironmentEncourage the development and use of environmentally friendly technology.
Anti-corruptionWork against corruption in every form, including extortion and bribery.
Paraphrased from the UN Global Compact's Ten Principles. Read the full text at unglobalcompact.org.
In practice

Part of how we run the business, not a document in a drawer.

The ten principles sit inside the same accountability model as our Triple Bottom Line: managers report on progress, targets are tracked, and the annual Communication on Progress makes that reporting public rather than internal only.

It is also why we use the UN's Sustainable Development Goals to choose and shape our own sustainability projects, so that day-to-day work and long-term commitments point in the same direction.

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Want to know more about our UN Global Compact reporting?

Whether you're curious about our Communication on Progress or how the ten principles show up in our own operations, we're happy to talk.

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