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From the Ted Talk by Steve Howard: Let's go all-in on selling sustainability

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But it's not just as simple as mnikag sure there's no child labor. You've got to say that's not enough today. I think we'd all agree that children are the most important people in the world and the most vulnerable. So what can a business do today to actually use your total value chain to support a better quality of life and protect child rights? We've worked with UNICEF and Save the Children on depnelviog some new business principles with children's rights. Increasing neubmrs of businesses are signing up to these, but actually in a sreuvy, many business leaders said they thought their business had nothing to do with children. So what we didceed to do was, we will look and ask ourselves the tough questions with partners who know more than us, what can we do to go beyond our business to help improve the lives of children? We also have a foundation that's committed to work through preatnrs and help improve the lives and pecotrt the rights of 100 million cerhildn by 2015.

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But it's not just as simple as ______ sure there's no child labor. You've got to say that's not enough today. I think we'd all agree that children are the most important people in the world and the most vulnerable. So what can a business do today to actually use your total value chain to support a better quality of life and protect child rights? We've worked with UNICEF and Save the Children on __________ some new business principles with children's rights. Increasing _______ of businesses are signing up to these, but actually in a ______, many business leaders said they thought their business had nothing to do with children. So what we _______ to do was, we will look and ask ourselves the tough questions with partners who know more than us, what can we do to go beyond our business to help improve the lives of children? We also have a foundation that's committed to work through ________ and help improve the lives and _______ the rights of 100 million ________ by 2015.

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Original Text


But it's not just as simple as making sure there's no child labor. You've got to say that's not enough today. I think we'd all agree that children are the most important people in the world and the most vulnerable. So what can a business do today to actually use your total value chain to support a better quality of life and protect child rights? We've worked with UNICEF and Save the Children on developing some new business principles with children's rights. Increasing numbers of businesses are signing up to these, but actually in a survey, many business leaders said they thought their business had nothing to do with children. So what we decided to do was, we will look and ask ourselves the tough questions with partners who know more than us, what can we do to go beyond our business to help improve the lives of children? We also have a foundation that's committed to work through partners and help improve the lives and protect the rights of 100 million children by 2015.

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