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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Partnerships drive innovation and<br />
amplify impacts<br />
Long-term collaboration is instrumental<br />
in making concrete, inclusive progress<br />
and addressing systemic challenges. Today,<br />
our company engages with more than<br />
40 partners directly or via coalitions to<br />
implement solutions: The Nespresso AAA<br />
Sustainable Quality Program, our coffeesourcing<br />
program, and the Aluminium<br />
Stewardship and Recycling initiatives<br />
are practical illustrations of this. Equally,<br />
investor partnerships are critical to amplify<br />
our actions. Between 2007 and 2015,<br />
our operational investments have been<br />
matched through a series of public-private<br />
partnership channeling $87 million in<br />
additional investments into the regions<br />
where we source our coffee.<br />
The AAA Sustainable Quality<br />
Program – our solution for building<br />
the resilience of coffee communities<br />
The AAA program, launched in 2003, is<br />
a sourcing program for quality coffee<br />
designed and implemented specifically for<br />
Nespresso in collaboration with the Rainforest<br />
Alliance. Through long-standing<br />
partnerships with farmers, coffee suppliers,<br />
and cooperatives, and with support<br />
from NGOs, it promotes the adoption<br />
of sustainable agricultural practices on<br />
the farm and landscape levels as well as<br />
improves the productivity and quality of<br />
harvests. Since 2014, the program has<br />
also aimed at innovating solutions for<br />
broader systemic challenges faced by the<br />
farming communities, such as climate<br />
change and price volatility. The benefits<br />
SUSTAINABLE CONSUMPTION<br />
Experience<br />
Scope<br />
• 3 systems: Original Line,<br />
Vertuo line and professional line<br />
• 61 permanent grand crus<br />
including 2 revivals<br />
(Cuba, Caqueta) and<br />
2 exclusive selections<br />
for fine dining<br />
Independent acknowledgement<br />
• 6.5 mio facbeook fans<br />
Remake<br />
Scope<br />
• Over 90 % of Nespresso Club<br />
Members have access to a<br />
capsule collection point<br />
Independent<br />
acknowledgement<br />
• Third party verification<br />
tool for capsule collection<br />
and recycling<br />
for producers are many: technical assistance,<br />
training, premium on quality, and<br />
inclusion in co-financed projects such as<br />
retirement savings plans and agroforestry.<br />
Thanks to the network of more than 450<br />
agronomists, the program covers more<br />
than 75,000 producers in 12 countries,<br />
leading to more than CHF 38 million in<br />
investments per year, including climate<br />
adaptation actions through agroforestry<br />
(2.5 Mio trees planted by end 2017).<br />
The Aluminium Stewardship Initiative<br />
In 2009, Nespresso approached the International<br />
Union for the Conservation of<br />
Nature to trigger the development of a<br />
global standard for sustainable aluminum<br />
production and sourcing. The resulting<br />
partnership inspired 13 other companies<br />
and 14 civil society and stakeholder organizations<br />
and led to the creation of<br />
what is now known as the Aluminium<br />
Stewardship Initiative (ASI). The ASI legal<br />
entity was created in 2015 as an independent,<br />
multistakeholder, membership-based<br />
organization with a mission to collaboratively<br />
foster responsible and traceable<br />
production, sourcing, and stewardship<br />
of aluminum. Civil society organizations<br />
have joined ASI as members to help build<br />
the program to ensure it is credible and<br />
rigorous. Eleven principles underpin the<br />
ASI Performance Standard.<br />
The aluminum recycling operations<br />
Aluminum has the potential to be an icon<br />
for sustainable consumption. It is the best<br />
material to protect the high quality of<br />
coffee – it is robust, yet lightweight, and<br />
it can be recycled infinitely. Recycling is<br />
a collective responsibility to unlock the<br />
value in aluminum. Since 1991, during<br />
Nespresso’s first recycling initiative in<br />
Switzerland, the company has been developing<br />
partnerships that fit the context<br />
of the markets in which it operates. At<br />
the end of 2017, the company invested<br />
CHF 30 million in collection and recycling<br />
operations.<br />
To learn more, please visit: www.nestlenespresso.com/nespresso-sustainability<br />
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