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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With Mission 2050, Deutsche Post DHL<br />
Group once again takes on a leadership<br />
role in the logistics industry. While the<br />
idea of zero-emission logistics might<br />
seem unrealistic at first, it represents<br />
the logical next step for the 10-year-old<br />
GoGreen program. Deutsche Post DHL<br />
Group supports the goal to limit global<br />
warming to less than 2°C, as established<br />
by the COP 21 world climate conference<br />
in 2015. Achieving the 2°C goal<br />
will require a radically new approach,<br />
especially in energy-intensive industries<br />
such as logistics. The goal of emissionsneutral<br />
logistics is not optional – it is<br />
unavoidable.<br />
Another idea behind Mission 2050 is to<br />
contribute to the United Nations SDGs,<br />
which Deutsche Post DHL Group supports<br />
as an official United Nations partner. Mission<br />
2050 contributes directly to SDG 13<br />
(“Climate Action”) and – with its goal<br />
of improving air quality through clean<br />
delivery – also to SDG 11 (“Sustainable<br />
Cities and Communities”). In line with<br />
its regular business activities and other<br />
corporate responsibility efforts, Deutsche<br />
Post DHL Group is also committed to SDG<br />
4 (“Quality Education”), SDG 8 (“Decent<br />
Work and Economic Growth”), and SDG<br />
17 (“Partnerships for the <strong>Goals</strong>”).<br />
Mission 2050 on course after first<br />
year<br />
One year has passed since the announcement<br />
of Mission 2050 and – as documented<br />
in the Group’s annual Corporate<br />
Responsibility Report (published<br />
in March <strong>2018</strong>) – measurable progress<br />
has been made in these first 12 months.<br />
In 2017, carbon efficiency improved by<br />
two additional index points to reach 32<br />
percent. The Group is also on track to<br />
achieve its interim target for clean delivery<br />
by 2025. In 2017, the percentage of<br />
clean pickup and delivery solutions was<br />
already at 28 percent, thanks in no small<br />
part to the success of the StreetScooter,<br />
which is Deutsche Post DHL Group’s own<br />
electric delivery vehicle. In Germany<br />
alone, more than 6,000 StreetScooters<br />
are being used in delivery operations.<br />
Moreover, in 2017, the Group positioned<br />
itself to significantly increase the number<br />
of StreetScooters out on the road.<br />
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<strong>Global</strong> <strong>Goals</strong> <strong>Yearbook</strong> <strong>2018</strong>
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