# The Trillion Dollar Shift

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/books/the-trillion-dollar-shift/
- Published: 2018-01-25T14:30:48+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**Marga Hoek explains how the UN Sustainable Development Goals, business and capital
interrelate to unlock new markets and open up opportunities worth trillions of dollars.**

Hoek is a non-executive director and a thought-leader on sustainable business and
capital. Her former book _New Economy Business_ was awarded management book of the
year.

Over the past 30 years, the world has seen great social improvements. Technology
has been developing at an enormous pace and is helping to solve our most pressing
social and environmental challenges. Yet, despite this success, our current model
of development is still deeply problematic. Natural disasters triggered by climate
change have doubled since the 1980s, violence and armed conflict now cost more than
13 percent of GDP, social inequality and youth unemployment is worsening around 
the world, and climate change threatens the global population with tremendous environmental
as well as social problems. Using the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
as a framework, this book sets out how business and capital now have a real opportunity
to help resolve these problems.

With clear and plentiful examples and cases of how businesses are making a difference,
relevant facts and figures to support the cases, and inspiring and instructional
information on how businesses can create sustainable value, this highly readable
book is a must-read for businesses (large and small) that wish to genuinely support
the delivery of the SDGs.

“I firmly believe both business and capital can and should play a significant role
in solving our global challenges,” says Ms. Hoek.

## Reviews

Unilever CEO **Paul Polman** says of the book: “We can be sure this inspiring book
will reach interested readers across the globe.”

**Feike Sijbesma**, CEO and Chairman DSM, commented: “This book offers business 
leaders many insights, ideas and practical cases on how business can contribute 
to a sustainable world.”

**Gérard Mestrallet**, ENGIE Chairman says Ms. Hoek “provides us with such a thorough
yet inspirational book about the synergy between business, capital and the SDGs.”

The book was launched at Davos on 25 January 2018.

## Awards

**Winner of the Gold Axiom Business Book Award 2019 in the Philanthropy / Non Profit/
Sustainability category**.

## Open-access

To encourage business to support the shift to ‘business for good’ at the scale needed
to achieve the SDGs, _The Trillion Dollar Shift_ is published by Routledge as an
open access e-book in addition to the printed version.

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