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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► Building a comprehensive strategic network<br />
of global and local partnerships and alliances<br />
to multiply our sustainability efforts and<br />
move forward towards our targets<br />
► Participating in forums, coalitions, and<br />
initiatives to support responsible growth<br />
and promote sustainable practices<br />
► Implementing Quarry Rehabilitation and<br />
Biodiversity Action Plans<br />
► Deploying conservation efforts at El Carmen,<br />
a Nature Reserve 8.4 times larger than<br />
the total sum of the areas impacted by our<br />
operations worldwide<br />
► Producing annual nature books with recognized<br />
NGOs, along with CEMEX Nature website to<br />
promote our world’s natural diversity<br />
► Creating jobs in local communities<br />
► Developing high-impact social programs to<br />
empower women, youth, and neighboring<br />
communities<br />
► Providing support during natural disasters<br />
► Enabling access to housing and basic services<br />
for low-income families through our<br />
inclusive business models<br />
► Ensuring health and safety is our<br />
company’s top priority – our Zero4Life<br />
commitment<br />
► Promoting community health through<br />
educational programs<br />
► Contributing to buildings’ inside comfort,<br />
positively affecting inhabitants’ health<br />
► Deploying a robust global carbon strategy<br />
that reflects our mitigation commitment<br />
► Putting risk assessment processes in place<br />
for potential climate change impacts<br />
► Supporting development of public policy in<br />
the transition to a low-carbon, climate-resilient<br />
economy<br />
► Providing customers with sustainable<br />
products, services, and solutions<br />
► Ensuring efficient use of natural<br />
resources in our production processes<br />
while contributing to a circular economy<br />
► Extending our sustainability approach<br />
through our Supplier Sustainability<br />
Program<br />
► Delivering resilient and energy-efficient<br />
infrastructure to support growing urban<br />
populations<br />
► Deploying a Community Engagement Strategy<br />
in all of our operations, considering<br />
environmental and social impacts<br />
► Implementing a Green Building Certification<br />
Policy across our worldwide offices<br />
► Delivering solutions for affordable<br />
housing and energy-efficient buildings<br />
► Implementing resilient and sustainable<br />
infrastructure<br />
► Dedicating R&D to engineer and design<br />
innovative construction solutions<br />
► Developing effective leaders while<br />
offering training and development to our<br />
employees<br />
► Helping society members develop skills<br />
to secure employment through our<br />
Community Centers<br />
► Contributing to new and more professional<br />
careers in the construction field<br />
through our masonry training programs<br />
► Implementing programs to empower<br />
women in both our workforce<br />
and our communities<br />
► Supporting diversity within our organization<br />
through initiatives such as flexible time for<br />
mothers, private breastfeeding facilities, and<br />
salary equality, among others<br />
► Providing competitive compensation to our<br />
employees while protecting their labor rights<br />
in a safe, respectful work environment<br />
► Generating economic growth for local suppliers<br />
► Enabling community members to become<br />
entrepreneurs through our capacity-builiding efforts<br />
1. co-design and implement socially impactful<br />
inclusive business models with<br />
customers and entrepreneurs;<br />
2. implement sustainable community<br />
engagement plans to improve quality<br />
of life; and<br />
3. design and co-create responsible crossfunctional<br />
practices within our operations<br />
and our value chain.<br />
To achieve our three priorities, we<br />
focus on:<br />
• education and development capabilities<br />
• sustainable and resilient infrastructure<br />
and mobility<br />
• social and environmental entrepreneurship<br />
• culture of environment protection and<br />
health<br />
Regarding our sustainable and resilient<br />
infrastructure and mobility priority, we<br />
foster the sustainable development of<br />
our communities by making them more<br />
resilient, safe, and committed to the environment.<br />
Through CEMEX’s Resiliency<br />
and Urban Transformation Strategy, we<br />
transfer our knowledge of how to promote<br />
a culture of prevention, as well as how<br />
to act upon a natural disaster. Thus, residents<br />
develop the ability to prevent – and<br />
to recover from – adverse situations by<br />
working together, thereby strengthening<br />
our communities’ resiliency and social<br />
foundations.<br />
As part of our Resiliency and Urban Transformation<br />
Strategy, our Urban Upgrading<br />
model is designed to foster the transformation<br />
of vulnerable urban areas into<br />
inclusive, safe, sustainable, and resilient<br />
communities. Launched in 2015 as a pilot<br />
project in Campana-Altamira, Mexico,<br />
the model is supported by more than 50<br />
partnerships with government, academia,<br />
NGOs, the private sector, and community<br />
partners. Based on a long-term sustainable<br />
development plan for the community, we<br />
have worked together with more than<br />
10,000 people from Campana-Altamira.<br />
Today, there are 11 neighborhood committees<br />
leading community participation<br />
projects to continue investment in community<br />
infrastructure.<br />
Our more than 500 global partnerships<br />
have proved to be key success factors in<br />
the meaningful role we play through our<br />
collaborative efforts and our ability to<br />
transform societal challenges into business<br />
opportunities that generate positive,<br />
long-lasting impacts.<br />
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