Around the world, companies are being called upon to align their business practices with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). These calls are coming from many places: outside investors such as pension funds, active shareholders within companies, consumers, suppliers, and other stakeholders in society. There is still no single agreed set of standards to assess whether a company is in alignment with the SDGs. In this article, I propose four criteria to assess whether a company’s performance aligns with the SDGs.

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