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About CO Tech

CO Tech is a consultancy and AI technology solution dedicated to advancing business action on the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 

The problem

  • According to the World Economic Forum, 90% of executives believe sustainability is important. However, this is not resulting in change where it matters.

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  • Despite growing commitments, graphs on leading indicators from greenhouse gas to biodiversity and the living planet are going the wrong way, and progress on social issues is painfully slow.

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  • We all share a common objective - business that works better for people and planet. There are thousands of initiatives globally, including multiple UN bodies, working towards this objective.

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  • Many are targeting the same businesses, and there are numerous different ESG frameworks and systems. 

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  • This fragments impact - for example, only 0.007% of companies globally are participants in the United Nations Global Compact, the world’s largest corporate sustainability initiative.

Our solution

  • Common Objective (CO) Tech fosters collaboration between the leading bodies and organisations driving change across industry. 

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  • We develop and deliver technology that incentivises, supports and rewards sustainable and ethical business practices for networks, including sophisticated community, learning, and marketplace capability. 

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  • Our mission is for sustainable and ethical business to become a commercial opportunity - rather than a cost.

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  • Our vision is to unite the hundreds of initiatives driving change through a common platform in collaboration with partners, used by over a million businesses, on which sustainability becomes a licence to operate.
     

The CO Tech story

2012

FIRST COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE LAUNCHED

Launched the SOURCE platform for the Ethical Fashion Forum, the first ESG community of practice in the fashion sector, uniting businesses and organisations driving change and harnessing tech to promote and connect sustainable and fair trade suppliers from all over the world to market. 

2016

SECURED INVESTMENT FOR CO TECH 

Secured investment from industry to develop innovative technology and scale up engagement with ESG best practice across the fashion sector. 

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