By Ryan Grenoble for Huffington Post

“We should not judge people by what they sign,” Unilever CEO Paul Polman told HuffPost Thursday of the climate change agreement and the sustainable development goals signed last year. “The world is watching what we do.”

Polman has built a reputation on managing business with an eye on the long term instead of “quarterly capitalism,” wherein short-term gains in stock prices are sacrosanct.

And when it comes to making progress on climate change, his strategy is no different.