It all started on the edge of the Johannesburg Earth Summit in 2002. Then Secretary General Kofi Annnan made use of the summit to promote its vision of collective leadership for sustainable development. It was the dawn and start time of what then became the broad global management trend towards Corporate Social Responsibility. We here at macondo joined the UNGC in 2002 and started a German publication about the 10 principles in 2004. It was the first ever periodic on CSR within the UN. And we have been among the very first publishers worldwide to join the UN Global Compact and the Global Reporting Initiative.

Five years later the UN Global Compact was preparing its 10th anniversary. macondo again was at the top of the preparations and we contributed pro bono a huge exposition reviewing work and milestones of the UNGC. The exhibition walls were displays in the venerable entrance of the UN Assembly Hall. At the same time the Global Compact International Yearbook started and was rebranded in 2018 as Global Goals Yearbook to meet the new needs of the sustainable development debate. Over the years the yearbooks became a world leading publication on corporate sustainability.

The macondo foundation support the following charitable purposes: the promotion of science and research; the promotion of art and culture; the promotion of nature conservation, environmental protection and coastal protection; the promotion of tolerance in all areas of society and international exchange; the promotion of animal welfare; the promotion of development cooperation; the promotion of civic engagement. Why we do this? We understand it is not enough to show that sustainability works. You must help and build capacities to make it work.