Global Goals Yearbook 2018
The future of the United Nations is more uncertain than at any time before. Like his predecessors, UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, has promised to reform the United Nations. Drivers are two major agreements: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Paris Climate Accord. Both stand for a move away from statal top-down multilateralism towards new form of partnership between the public and the private sector as well as the civil society. The Global Goals Yearbook, published under the auspices of the macondo foundation, therefore covers „Partnership for the Goals“ as its 2018 main topic. Our world is truly not sustainable at this time. To make the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development a success story, we need an enormous increase in effort. This cannot happen without help from the private sector. But businesses need a reason to contribute as well as attractive partnerships that are based on win-win constellations. We have no alternative but to rethink the role that public–private partnerships can play in this effort. That is why United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres is calling upon UN entities to strengthen and better align their private-sector engagement. In every change there is a new chance. The Global Goals Yearbook 2018 discusses the multiple aspects of how private sector engagement can be improved. Recommendations are, among others, to revise multilaterism, partnership models and processes and to invest more in trust, a failure culture as well as metrics and monitoring. When businesses engage in partnerships for the Goals, this is more than just signing checks. It means inserting the “do good” imperative of the SDGs into corporate culture, business cases, innovation cycles, investor relationships, and, of course, the daily management processes and (extra-)financial reporting. The Yearbook includes arguments from academic and business experts, the World Bank and the Club of Rome as well as UN entities, among them UNDP, UNSSC, UNOPS, UN JIU, and UN DESA.
The future of the United Nations is more uncertain than at any time before. Like his predecessors, UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, has promised to reform the United Nations. Drivers are two major agreements: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Paris Climate Accord. Both stand for a move away from statal top-down multilateralism towards new form of partnership between the public and the private sector as well as the civil society. The Global Goals Yearbook, published under the auspices of the macondo foundation, therefore covers „Partnership for the Goals“ as its 2018 main topic.
Our world is truly not sustainable at this time. To make the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development a success story, we need an enormous increase in effort. This cannot happen without help from the private sector. But businesses need a reason to contribute as well as attractive partnerships that are based on win-win constellations.
We have no alternative but to rethink the role that public–private partnerships can play in this effort. That is why United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres is calling upon UN entities to strengthen and better align their private-sector engagement. In every change there is a new chance.
The Global Goals Yearbook 2018 discusses the multiple aspects of how private sector engagement can be improved. Recommendations are, among others, to revise multilaterism, partnership models and processes and to invest more in trust, a failure culture as well as metrics and monitoring.
When businesses engage in partnerships for the Goals, this is more than just signing checks. It means inserting the “do good” imperative of the SDGs into corporate culture, business cases, innovation cycles, investor relationships, and, of course, the daily management processes and (extra-)financial reporting.
The Yearbook includes arguments from academic and business experts, the World Bank and the Club of Rome as well as UN entities, among them UNDP, UNSSC, UNOPS, UN JIU, and UN DESA.
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CONTRIBUTING TO THE UN<br />
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT<br />
GOALS<br />
CEMEX is a global building-materials company that provides high-quality products and reliable<br />
service to customers and communities in more than 50 countries. We have a rich history of<br />
improving the well-being of those we serve through innovative building solutions, efficiency<br />
advancements, and efforts to promote a sustainable future.<br />
By Martha Herrera, CEMEX<br />
At CEMEX, we understand that our<br />
business cannot thrive in a world of<br />
poverty, inequality, and environmental<br />
tensions. This is why we recognize our<br />
responsibility to share our experiences<br />
and apply business models that tackle<br />
the world’s most critical challenges. By<br />
aligning our business strategies with<br />
the Sustainable Development <strong>Goals</strong><br />
(SDGs), we can not only maintain and<br />
strengthen our license to operate, but<br />
also innovatively create value for society<br />
– thereby improving quality of life and<br />
well-being globally.<br />
disruption across social, environmental,<br />
and economic dimensions. Indeed, we<br />
are already going further – developing<br />
business strategies that embrace the<br />
growth potential of responsible environmental<br />
and societal policies while<br />
driving sustainable business practices<br />
throughout our value chain.<br />
Given our company’s core business and<br />
sustainability strategies, we are more<br />
directly engaged in the achievement of<br />
the following SDGs: 1, 3, 4, 5, 8, 9, 11, 12,<br />
13, 15, and 17, as stated in our company’s<br />
recently published Integrated Report.<br />
Some of our initiatives to support<br />
the SDGs around the globe<br />
Our Responsible Business strategy directly<br />
contributes to our vision of building<br />
a better future and aims to understand<br />
our stakeholders’ expectations by fully<br />
managing our company’s impacts and<br />
creating value and well-being through<br />
three strategic priorities:<br />
The SDGs provide a blueprint for CEMEX<br />
to achieve its vision of building a better<br />
future. They foster our sustainable<br />
growth by better supporting the communities<br />
in which we operate, creating jobs<br />
and business opportunities connected<br />
to our core business – from building<br />
sustainable cities and communities to innovative<br />
infrastructure – and continuously<br />
fostering trust and transparency<br />
with our stakeholders.<br />
They further enable us to understand<br />
and better respond to the risks and<br />
opportunities that we face in a world<br />
characterized by rapid change and<br />
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