While leading businesses have long been engaged in efforts to integrate sustainability at the core of corporate strategy and decision-making, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) provide us with a new lens through which to translate global needs and ambitions into business solutions. These solutions will enable companies to better manage their risks, anticipate consumer demand, harness the potential of historic growth markets, secure access to needed resources and strengthen their supply chains, while moving the world towards the delivery of the SDGs and a more prosperous society for all.
While business is not being asked to deliver the SDGs by itself, this complex and urgent agenda will not be realized without involvement at scale by the private sector. Converting the SDGs into meaningful and widespread corporate engagement, and ushering in the inclusive and sustainable economic growth that the Goals represent, will be a sizeable challenge.
Forward-looking businesses are already working towards having a meaningful impact on the SDGs - in particular by:
developing a thorough understanding of how their activities translate into economic, environmental and social impacts in the context of the SDGs;
setting ambitious goals to implement the SDGs, including by incorporating responsible business practices across strategies and operations;
pursuing impactful contributions to the 2030 Agenda through a strong commitment to universal principles in relation to human rights, equality and the environment;
developing business solutions to address sustainability challenges;
collaborating with peers to develop a collective vision and roadmaps to realize substantial sector transformation;
working across sectors to help transform entire economic systems;
disclosing SDG performance and progress;
openly advocating for key policy and finance enablers that will help achieve a tipping point.
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GreenBiz 18 Tutorial Slides: Fulfilling the Potential of Business to Realize the SDGs
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From ambition to
implementation:
Fulfilling the
potential of
business to realize
the SDGS
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Feb
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Today’s Agenda
Setting the scene
Filippo Veglio & James Gomme (WBCSD)
Strategic Integration of the SDGs
Jillene Connors (Earth Security Group)
Meaningful SDG engagement
Panel discussion
Networking break
Reporting on the SDGs
Dialogue
Wrap-up
08:30 – 09:30
09:30 – 10:00
10:00 – 11:10
11:10 – 11:30
11:30 – 12:15
12:15 – 12:30
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Business & the SDGs
Setting the Scene
Filippo Veglio & James Gomme,
WBCSD
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The World Business Council for Sustainable
Development
MISSION: To accelerate
the transition to a
sustainable world by
making more sustainable
business more
successful.
VISSION: is to create
a world where more than
nine billion people are all
living well and within the
boundaries of our planet,
by 2050.
GLOBAL
200 members spanacross the
globe and all economic
sectors.
MARKET-DRIVEN
Put business at the center
of sustainable
development.
CEO-LED
WBCSD is oriented towards
andled by member-company
CEOs.
UNIQUE PLATFORM
Accessto a sustainable business
community and a safe space to
exchange ideas and information.
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North America
21%
Europe
47%
Asia
(non-Japan)
15%
Japan
10%
Latin
America
5%
Africa
1%
Middle
East
1%
Distribution of Members
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From a business
perspective it helps to
simplify and to consider
this agenda in terms of
key economic systems
Interpreting the SDGs into Economic Systems
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SUSTAINABILITY
IN A COMPLEX
WORLD
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SOME CONTEXT
11. Source: Atlas of Sustainable Development Goals, World Bank (2017)
Significant progress made
in development in recent
decades…….
Dramatic reduction in the number
of poor, most notably in China and
India
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Sustainability in a complex world
12. Source: Business & Sustainable Development Commission (2017)
…….but progress
has come at a cost
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Sustainability in a complex world
Current model of economic
development has left a
legacy of social and
environmental burdens
posing mounting business
costs and restricting growth
13. Turbulent
TeensThe challenge:
How to put a
fragmented
world on a
sustainable
path?
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Sustainability in a complex world
16. SDGs will not
be delivered
without
business
Technology & Innovation
Engine of Employment
Source of Finance
The Role of Business?
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BUSINESS
IMPLICATIONS
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Operational
Risk
Reputation
Risk
Regulatory
Risk
Market
Disruption
Risks of Inaction
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New markets Staying ahead
of the curve
Enhanced
Reputation
License to
Operate
Capturing Opportunities
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Making a compelling
economic case for
achieving the SDGs
Business & Sustainable Development Commission
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The global
economic
prize
associated
with the
realization of
the SDGs
Source: Business & Sustainable
Development Commission (2017)
Business & Sustainable Development Commission
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IDENTIFYING
GLOBAL
MARKET
HOTSPOTS
Business & Sustainable Development Commission
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ASIAINDIAAFRICALATIN
AMERICA
MIDDLE EAST
& NORTH
AFRICA
Business & Sustainable Development Commission
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http://www.globalopportunityexplorer.org/
Global Opportunity Explorer
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• Financial Services
• Food, Beverage & Consumer Goods
• Healthcare & Life Sciences
• Industrial Manufacturing
• Transportation
• Energy, Natural Resources, Chemicals
SDG Industry Matrix
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Highlights how SDGs
can be used as a
framework to analyse
risk and opportunity
at the country and
sector level.
Earth Security Report
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• High-level Political Forum on
Sustainable Development growing in
stature as international monitoring
mechanism.
• 43 countries submitted updates in 2017
(31 in 2016).
• Business is being asked to input into this
process through the SDG Business
Forum.
• Governments generally laying out the
need for strong business leadership
Policy-level
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Research & Data
Emergence of increasingly sophisticated data sets
to help analyze global development progress
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Emergence of Corporate Reporting Guidance
• GRI and the United Nations Global
Compact have established a
collaborative initiative, ‘Business
Reporting on the SDGs’ – an Action
Platform to accelerate corporate
reporting on the Global Goals.
• Releasing practical guidance in
2018
• Will seek to integrate SDGs into
respective GRI and UNGC
frameworks.
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A group of prominent
organizations has
announced plans to
explore setting up a freely
available global
benchmark of leading
companies in terms of their
SDG performance.
Emergence of SDG Benchmarking
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Dutch pension fund
managers PGGM
and APG Asset
Management have
developed a
taxonomy to identify
sustainable
development
investing (SDI)
opportunities.
ABP pension
fund has pledged
to increase its
allocation to
SDIs from $34
billion in 2015 to
$68 billion by
2020.
Australia’s
Cbus Super
fund has also
moved to
align its
investment
strategy with
the SDGs.
US fund
CalPERS has
also announced
intention to align
with the SDGs.
Mounting Investor Interest
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Nov 2017: HSBC raised US$1 billion
through an SDG bond. Will be used to
support projects that are aligned to seven
selected SDG targets.
Mar 2017: World Bank issued bonds, with
support of BNP, that directly link returns to the
performance of companies advancing
development priorities set out in the SDGs.
New Finance Mechanisms
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• Identifying case studies
• Linking material issues
with SDGs
• SDG lens applied to
strategic functions
• SDG progress analysis
Business Action: SDGs as Output or Input
Demonstrating
how sustainability
strategies and
products are
aligned with SDGs
In-depth analysis of
SDG agenda
informing process,
product and business
model innovations
SDG COMMUNICATIONSTRATEGIC INTEGRATION
C O M PAN Y
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Business Action: Best Practice
1) Awareness &
understanding
2) Strategic
integration
3) Defining
priorities
4) Targets &
indicators
5) Communication
& reporting
What does best practice look like?
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62% mentioned the SDGs in some way in their reporting
37% selected material SDGs
38% made no mention of the goals
Business Action: Reporting Trends
Source: PwC – SDG Reporting Challenge 2017
Based on analysis of reporting by
470 companies across 17
countries
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Company
prioritization
of the SDGs
Source: PwC – SDG Reporting Challenge 2017
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Importance of appropriate
partnerships to realizing
transformation to
Systemic
Partnerships
Sector-level
Partnerships
Strategic
Partnerships
Company
Action
Business Action: Partnerships
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Business Action: Sectoral Collaboration
Chemical Sector SDG
Roadmap
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What is a Sector Roadmap?
SETS A
COMMON
VISION
MAPS
CURRENT
SDG IMPACT
EXPLORES
OPPORTUNITIES
FOR IMPACT
IDENTIFIES
ACTIONS
Enhances license to operate Helps to manage risks Opens up new growth markets
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Business Action: Human Rights
SDGs will not be achieved without robust human
rights due diligence.
Nestle’s Human Rights Issues & Corresponding
SDG Goals & Targets
Human rights are a cross-cutting theme of the
SDGs
Ensuring respect for human rights throughout the
value chain is one of the most significant
opportunities business has to contribute to SDGs
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Panel Discussion
Reflections on
Meaningful SDG
Engagement
60. Sarah Matheson Mihalecz
Lead, Sustainability,
North America
Tata Group
Erin Robert
Executive Director
Sustainable Finance
JPMorgan Chase & Co
Sophie Beckham
Senior Manager,
Natural Capital Stewardship
International Paper
Claus Stig Pedersen
Head of Corporate
Sustainability
Novozymes
Panel Discussion:
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Reflections on Meaningful SDG Engagement
63. Lois Guthrie
Director,
Redefining Value
WBCSD
Dr Rodney Irwin
Managing Director
Redefining Value Program
WBCSD
Juliette Gaussem
Senior Manager,
Guidance & Practice
GRI
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Dialogue:
Reporting on the SDGs
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Our contacts
Filippo Veglio
Managing Director, People
veglio@wbcsd.org
James Gomme
Director, SDGs
gomme@wbcsd.org
Notas do Editor
WBCSD
The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) is a global, CEO-led organization of around 200 forward-thinking businesses working together to accelerate the transition to a sustainable world.
Together, we develop transformational business solutions to the most challenging issues, delivering results that no single company could achieve alone.
$1.90/day baseline
This interactive treemap below illustrates how the number and distribution of people living in extreme poverty has changed between 1990 and 2013.
The reduction in the number of poor in East Asia and Pacific is dramatic
Despite the decline in the Sub-Saharan Africa’s extreme poverty rate to 41 percent in 2013, the region’s population growth means that 389 million people lived on less than $1.90/day in 2013 - 113 million more than in 1990
The UN has gifted the SDGs to the world as a framework that can put the world on a sustainable path
SDGs are not a business as usual agenda.
SDGs are
Transformational (beyond incrementalism)
Ambitious
Interconnected
Universal
Stating a clear vision of where the sector aspires to be and what the sector aims to achieve in relation to the SDGs by 2030 and beyond. This should be ambitious yet realistic. It should be informed by the sector’s current position and its level of ambition to contribute to the SDGs, and reached via consensus with stakeholders. The vision should consider industry dynamics, sector and company maturity in terms of sustainability, value chain characteristics, and geographic scope and scale.
Demonstrating how the sector interacts with the wider SDG agenda and which of the SDGs it can impact the most.
Identifying key impact opportunities where, by working together, the companies involved can have the most significant impact on realizing achieving the SDGs while unlocking business value.
Exploring actions that organizations within the sector can begin to take to move towards advancing these opportunities and make sure potential value is achieved.
Understanding common barriers and identifying impact accelerators within the sector and across its value chain.
Engaging with key stakeholders across the sector’s value chain.
A roadmap provides a strategic plan that translates a vision into actionable goals and activities.
An SDG sector roadmap enables leading companies to collaborate and articulate a common approach for how their industry can maximize its potential to contribute to the realization ofachieving the critical SDG agenda through business solutions. This in turn will help the sector to collectively strengthen its license to operate, manage operational and regulatory risks, and open up new growth markets.
Individual companies can then also leverage the roadmap to focus their own strategic approach to the SDGs and make informed decisions as to where they can have the greatest impact on the SDG goals and targets that are a priority for their sector.
This document is designed to inspire sectors to develop their own roadmaps for identifying the common solutions, opportunities and partnerships needed to help achieve realize the SDGs. A sector roadmap could be initiated by an industry association or a group of companies with a common interest. It is essential that any sector roadmap have sufficient representation from a broad and inclusive list of companies that are part of the sector as defined by the roadmap.
The audience for each roadmap produced may differ slightly from sector to sector, but fundamentally the work should be aimed first and foremost at providing practical guidance and inspiration to the sector itself. However, roadmaps will also be a useful reference point for wider stakeholders such as policymakers, investors and civil society who seek to deepen their understanding of the potential of particular sectors to contribute to the SDG agenda and the maturity of their efforts.
We work with companies and investors to internalise sustainability priorities & opportunities material to business growth.
We use the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as an business impact framework.
e.g. 6.3 water pollution or 8.7 modern slavery
e.g. 7.3 energy efficiency and 3.8. access to healthcare