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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ONE STEP AHEAD FOR MORE<br />
THAN 160 YEARS – POWERED<br />
BY PASSION!<br />
Ten companies, five product areas, and three business units make the Harburg-Freudenberger<br />
Maschinenbau one of the world’s leading developers and manufacturers of special machines for<br />
the rubber, tire, and edible oil industry. Maximum energy, precision, and the desire for innovation<br />
from every single employee at our locations on five continents are the guarantors that this will<br />
continue to be the case in the future. We invest regularly and very consciously in the ongoing<br />
development of our products so that we are always able to offer our customers the most<br />
efficient, reliable, and also ecologically sensible solutions. We stand for high tech that is<br />
engineered in Germany and, in many respects, we are the benchmark for the industries in which<br />
we operate.<br />
By Harburg-Freudenberger Maschinenbau<br />
We are actively committed to better<br />
working conditions and sustainable<br />
production<br />
Our research and development department<br />
is always looking for new solutions<br />
that consume even less energy and pollute<br />
the environment with fewer emissions.<br />
We are increasingly implementing<br />
this drive in our own production<br />
processes with the aim of protecting the<br />
environment and offering our employees<br />
better working conditions.<br />
That is why we began constructing a<br />
biomass power plant at our largest site<br />
in Belišće, Croatia, a few years ago. It<br />
supplies 1150 kWh of electricity per year<br />
for the general grid and 1650 kW of heat<br />
for our own offices and halls. During<br />
this process, the old gas heating system<br />
in the production halls was replaced<br />
with a modern hot water heating system,<br />
which not only enables more even<br />
and efficient heat distribution but also<br />
eliminates combustion gases and residues,<br />
which could potentially be harmful<br />
to our employees. This modernization<br />
measure alone reduces CO 2<br />
emissions at<br />
the Belišće site by more than 35 percent<br />
and also creates healthier and more<br />
pleasant working conditions. In addition,<br />
a forced ventilation system with<br />
heat recovery was installed in the rooms,<br />
and the lighting system was completely<br />
renewed to save energy, which reduced<br />
CO 2<br />
emissions for light energy alone by<br />
47 percent. For this reason, the construction<br />
of another biomass power plant is<br />
planned for <strong>2018</strong> in order to increase<br />
these positive effects even further.<br />
Painting equipment is of great importance<br />
when constructing machines for<br />
tire production. The previous cleaning<br />
and painting systems in Belišće are now<br />
obsolete and can no longer meet the<br />
required capacities. We are therefore<br />
planning to build a new paint shop that<br />
will protect the environment by using<br />
environmentally friendly chemicals for<br />
washing and painting the parts and a<br />
closed water circuit. Both advances will<br />
offer significantly higher production<br />
capacities.<br />
The fully automated cleaning of the parts<br />
to be painted significantly reduces the<br />
exposure of solvents and volatile organic<br />
compounds (VOC) in the external environment<br />
as well as the working environment.<br />
New types of coatings that can be applied<br />
directly without primer enable further<br />
significant reductions in VOC emissions in<br />
the air that workers breathe, which leads<br />
to less odor and fewer allergic reactions.<br />
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