UN Global Compact Recognizes SkyPower Founder and Chief Executive Officer as a 2016 Local SDG Pioneer - Seite 2

"I am honoured to be part of the inaugural class of Local SDG Pioneers and humbled by the recognition from the UN Global Compact," said Mr. Adler. "Sustainable Developments Goals are core to SkyPower's global operations because I fundamentally believe that businesses have a duty to be responsible corporate citizens and leave an inhabitable world for future generations."

The UN Global Compact Leaders Summit 2016 is a two-day gathering of the private sector, UN, Government and civil society to jump-start action to achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. Together, over 800 leaders from around the world are gathered in New York to identify how to unleash the business activities, thinking and innovation required for a new era of sustainability. 

The UN Global Compact is the world's largest corporate sustainability initiative, calling on companies to align strategies and operations with universal principles on human rights, labour, environment and anti-corruption, and take actions that advance societal goals. In Canada, over 80 companies and non-business organization have joined the initiative, and the Global Compact Network Canada has supported their efforts to advance sustainable business practices since 2013.

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About SkyPower
SkyPower is the largest and one of the most successful developers and owners of utility-scale solar energy projects in the world. With roots dating back more than a dozen years, SkyPower's global team possesses a vast track record of over 900 years of combined experience in power and large infrastructure projects.

The experienced and accomplished SkyPower team has built, assembled and acquired an extensive pipeline of over 25 GW worldwide - 9 GW of which were recently announced in bilateral agreements, and other contract awards, to be built in the Middle East, Africa and South Asia over the next five years.

SkyPower's over 30 utility-scale solar Power Purchase Agreements (PPA) and Contracts in aggregate represent well in excess of approximately US $80 billion worth of long-term renewable energy sales to leading utilities and governments around the world.

SkyPower is majority owned by CIM Group, a U.S.-based real estate and infrastructure investment firm founded in 1994 that has systematically and successfully invested in dynamic and densely populated communities throughout North America.

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