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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WELCOME TO THE FUTURE<br />
OF BUILDING<br />
Web 4.0, smart systems, big data – digitalization will shape the future, including the future of<br />
building. In places where 2D designs were formerly the basis for everyday construction projects,<br />
now project owners, designers, companies, and subcontractors are more connected to each<br />
other digitally. Building Information Modeling (BIM) is the method used for the effective handling<br />
of digital construction projects. It is based on the active networking of all parties involved with<br />
the aid of 3D computer models that can be supplemented with further data, such as time and<br />
costs. In short, those who first build digitally – and then in real life – are simply better prepared,<br />
which prevents many problems from originating in the first place.<br />
By HOCHTIEF Corporate Communications<br />
HOCHTIEF recognized the potential of<br />
BIM early on. Our virtual construction<br />
business, HOCHTIEF ViCon GmbH, is<br />
considered to be one of the pioneers<br />
in this field. We have been expanding<br />
BIM know-how within the Group with<br />
increasing intensity for some years now.<br />
This makes sense and has been demanded<br />
more often by public as well as private<br />
clients. The step-by-step BIM plan was<br />
introduced in Germany in 2015. The plan<br />
is for BIM to be the standard for all of the<br />
country’s transportation infrastructure<br />
projects by 2020. Similar standards apply<br />
in many countries, including the United<br />
Kingdom, Finland, Norway, Singapore,<br />
and Malaysia, among others. Turner, our<br />
subsidiary in the United States, executes<br />
almost no structural engineering projects<br />
without the use of BIM – for good reason.<br />
architects, project owners, engineers,<br />
and subcontractors can access the model,<br />
they are always up-to-date on the current<br />
status of the construction project.<br />
Pipelines, walls, stairways, and masonry<br />
are visible on the screen. Based on this,<br />
the system calculates the quantities of<br />
concrete, steel, or masonry required<br />
at the press of a button. If designs are<br />
changed during the construction process,<br />
for example if an additional wall is<br />
added, then all of the consequences are<br />
calculated in mere seconds, and everyone<br />
is immediately made aware of them.<br />
The model can be supplemented with<br />
The large staircase of the Elbe<br />
Philharmonic Hall being designed.<br />
The construction process: Flexible<br />
and precise<br />
BIM is more than a 3D model. It is an<br />
information tool for all of the parties<br />
involved, and therefore a communications<br />
system – one could say it is a new<br />
philosophy of construction. Because<br />
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