It only takes a handful of sizeable companies to reach a tipping point and to transform markets.

While we have created prosperity for many, too many are being left behind.

Consumers in both emerging and developed markets want it all - high-performing products, the right price, and a purpose that they can connect with.

It is not possible to have a strong, functioning business in a world of increasing inequality, poverty, and climate change.

Many businesses understand the advantages of gender parity.

In certain cases, empowering women starts with making their lives easier and removing unnecessary burdens.

Business has a responsibility and opportunity to be the driving force for the advancement of universal human rights.

Around the world, businesses and investors are increasingly taking action to climate-proof their own organizations.

Simply put, the low-carbon economy is better for growth.

If the world wants a climate deal and new development agenda that's good for the economy, for the poor, and for businesses, the path forward needs to include forests.

To achieve policy stability and certainty, we need to establish a meaningful price on carbon and cut the billions of dollars spent each year on fossil-fuel subsidies, along with well-structured financial tools and rules.

Leading businesses are making large strides in ensuring a sustainable future, but ultimately, they can only do so much.

When the climate hurts, people and businesses also feel the pain.

At Unilever, we operate in 190 countries with two billion people using our products daily. We take climate seriously because we know that it impacts those two billion people - and that means it impacts us, too.

The commitment to put an end to illegal deforestation and develop sustainable alternatives for commodities like palm oil and soy, for example, is an inspiring illustration of what can be achieved when governments and industry partners come together determined to bring about transformational market-wide changes.

Permissible growth in the future has to be based on sustainable and equitable models.

Addressing the weaknesses of capitalism will require us, above all, to do two things: first, to take a long-term perspective, and second, to re-set the priorities of business.

If too many people feel excluded from the system and cannot access its benefits, they will ultimately rebel against it.

Providing financial incentives for both local communities and national governments to conserve and restore forests also makes sense. It will put an economic value on these precious natural resources and drive the right behaviours from both government and business.

The planet's forests are essential for life.

We need more food, more forests, better livelihoods for smallholder farmers, and lower emissions. If we want any of them, we must have all of them.

Left unchecked, climate change risks not only making the poorest poorer, but pulling the emerging middle classes back into poverty, too.

Unilever has been around for 100-plus years. We want to be around for several hundred more years.

P&G started in 1837, Nestle in 1857. These companies have been around for so long because they are in tune with society. They are very responsible companies, despite the challenges that they sometimes deal with, all the criticism they get.