{"id":24178,"date":"2023-09-20T13:21:55","date_gmt":"2023-09-20T13:21:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/?p=24178"},"modified":"2023-09-20T14:01:36","modified_gmt":"2023-09-20T14:01:36","slug":"chalhoub-group-un-agenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/2023\/09\/20\/chalhoub-group-un-agenda\/","title":{"rendered":"Chalhoub Group joins UN Global Compact Forward Faster initiative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- VideographyWP Plugin Message: Automatic video embedding prevented by plugin options. --><br \/>\n<span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">UAE-based luxury retail conglomerate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/2023\/06\/12\/chalhoub-group-2022-report\/\">Chalhoub Group<\/a> has committed to nine targets in four action areas by the <a href=\"https:\/\/forwardfaster.unglobalcompact.org\/home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UN Global Compact\u00a0<\/a><\/span>Forward Faster programme <span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">to meet the 2030 agenda.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Chalhoub Group&#8217;s nine targets in four action cover: gender equality climate action, living wage and water resilience.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The UN initiative calls on business leaders to take measurable action in areas that have the power to accelerate progress across 17 Sustainable Development Goals.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Group president at Chalhoub Group, Patrick Chalhoub, said: &#8220;As we deeply embed sustainability into our core business, we are fully committed to SDG targets, and we are actively taking measures to accelerate progress within our business and across our operations.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">&#8220;By joining the UN Global Compact Forward Faster initiative, we are committed to making a bigger and faster impact particularly in five key areas: gender equality, climate action, living wage and water stewardship and determined to make a real impact.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Chalhoub Group operates a portfolio of eight owned brands and over 300 international brands in the luxury, beauty, fashion, and art de vivre categories.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">More recently, the Group expanded into luxury watches, jewellery and eyewear sectors.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In June, the <span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Group <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">outlined its goal to achieve net zero emissions across its operations by 2040 as part of its environmental action.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">To encourage the growth of local start-ups, the Group has set up an incubator and accelerator for small businesses in the region and internationally called &#8216;The Greenhouse&#8217;.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UAE retail Chalhoub Group has set out to meet nine targets in four action areas designed by the UN Global Compact\u00a0Forward Faster initiative\u00a0to fulfil the 2030 agenda<\/p>\n<p>Chalhoub Group&#8217;s nine targets in four<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":19351,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[3977,3966],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24178"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24178"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24181,"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24178\/revisions\/24181"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}