Launched in 2000, the UN Global Compact is the largest corporate sustainability initiative in the world, with more than 17,000 companies and 4,000 non-business signatories based in over 177 countries. It is a call to companies everywhere to align their operations and strategies with ten universally accepted principles in the areas of human rights, labor, environment, and anti-corruption, and to take action in support of UN goals and issues embodied in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).