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[email protected] THE 2020 Bruno Roelants WORLD Director General, ICA COOPERATIVE MONITOR Gianluca Salvatori Secretary General, Euricse EXPLORING THE COOPERATIVE ECONOMY The International Cooperative Alliance (ICA) and the Euro- as you’ll read about some in this report, many large cooperatives pean Research Institute on Cooperative and Social Enterpris- have stepped in to help employees, members, and communities es (Euricse) are pleased to present the ninth annual World to face the health and economic repercussions of COVID 19. Cooperative Monitor report. This publication reports on the In addition to the rankings and special section on the glob- world’s largest cooperatives and mutuals, or groups of coop- al pandemic, this year’s report also includes a special focus eratives and mutuals, including rankings of the Top 300 and on the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), goal 13 sectoral analysis based on 2018 financial data. – Climate Action in particular. As in previous editions of the Each year, the World Cooperative Monitor builds upon the WCM, we have analyzed the contribution of the Top 300 and research and data collection of the previous years, continually other large cooperatives to meeting the targets of this SDG, refining and improving the methodology and data collection demonstrating how cooperatives can lead the way to a more strategies.