Overview:

Business and the UN Global Goals

The 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals
(SDGs), or Global Goals

• Adopted in September 2015, to be achieved by 2030

• Backed by all 193 United Nations Member States
• Developed by governments, civil society, and business
together to solve humanity’s greatest challenges
• Designed to be implemented together with collaboration
• 17 goals, 169 targets
A $12 TRILLION Business Opportunity

Source: “Better Business Better World Report”

Business and Sustainable Development Commission | January 2017
REPORT”: http://report.businesscommission.org/report
 By 2030, progressively achieve and sustain income growth of the bottom 40
10.1
per cent of the population at a rate higher than the national average

By 2030, empower and promote the social, economic and political inclusion
10.2 of all, irrespective of age, sex, disability, race, ethnicity, origin, religion or
economic or other status

Ensure equal opportunity and reduce inequalities of outcome, including by

10.3 eliminating discriminatory laws, policies and practices and promoting
appropriate legislation, policies and action in this regard

Adopt policies, especially fiscal, wage and social protection policies, and
10.4
progressively achieve greater equality

Improve the regulation and monitoring of global financial markets and

10.5
institutions and strengthen the implementation of such regulations

Ensure enhanced representation and voice for developing countries in

decision-making in global international economic and financial institutions in
10.6
order to deliver more effective, credible, accountable and legitimate
institutions
Facilitate orderly, safe, regular and responsible migration and mobility of
10.7 people, including through the implementation of planned and well-managed
migration policies
Implement the principle of special and differential treatment for developing
10.a countries, in particular least developed countries, in accordance with World
Trade Organization agreements
Encourage official development assistance and financial flows, including
foreign direct investment, to States where the need is greatest, in particular
10.b least developed countries, African countries, small island developing States
and landlocked developing countries, in accordance with their national plans
and programmes
By 2030, reduce to less than 3 per cent the transaction costs of migrant
10.c remittances and eliminate remittance corridors with costs higher than 5
percent

Example: Goal 10-Reduced Inequalities and its associated targets

See: https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/topics/sustainabledevelopmentgoals
Business Engagement with the Global Goals

Source: KKS Advisors May 2017

Business Benefits to Aligning with the Global Goals

Source: BSR June 2016: “A First Look at How

Companies Are Responding to the SDGs”
Steps Companies Can Take to Contribute to SDGs

Source: BSR June 2016: “A First Look at How

Companies Are Responding to the SDGs”
Business and the Global Goals – 2018
Business and the Sustainable Development Goals
Gold Standard and the Worldwide Fund for Nature
(WWF) Switzerland | February 2018

2018 Global Opportunity Report

Sustaina and the UN Global Compact
| January 2018
Business and the Global Goals Reports - 2017
Business Reporting on the SDGs:
An Analysis of the Goals and Targets
(GRLI & UN Global Compact – Sept 2017)
This report is a first step towards a uniform
mechanism for business to report on their
contribution to and impact on the SDGs in an
effective and comparable way.

A Why, When, and How Guide for Business

(Silicon Valley Community Foundation – Dec 2017)

2017 United Nations Global Compact Progress

Report: Business Solutions to Sustainable
Development (UN Global Compact – Sept 2017)

Evaluating Progress Towards the Sustainable

Development Goals
(GlobeScan/SustainAbility Mar 2017)
Business and the Global Goals – 2016 and 2015
Taking the Leap:
Achieving the Global Goals
(PricewaterhouseCoopers – Nov 2016)

Navigating the SDGs: A Business Guide to Engaging with the UN

Global Goals
(PricewaterhouseCoopers Nov 2015)
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