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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From the left: Chairman of the TÜV Rheinland Foundation Prof. Dr. -Ing. Bruno O. Braun,<br />
Award winner Dr. Auma Obama, Cologne Lord Mayor Henriette Reker, and<br />
Hans-Joachim Fuchtel, former Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry<br />
for Economic Cooperation and Development.<br />
DR. AUMA OBAMA –<br />
PRIZES AND AWARDS<br />
TÜV RHEINLAND<br />
FOUNDATION<br />
has been an energetic advocate for disadvantaged<br />
children and young people for<br />
many years, ensuring that they develop<br />
powerful voices. She wants the best for<br />
the young people in our world – after<br />
all, they are the future. Disadvantaged<br />
children and young people becoming<br />
confident and self-reliant adults – that<br />
is a textbook example of sustainability.<br />
Auma Obama’s foundation shows young<br />
people how to cultivate trees so that they<br />
can be sold in other districts in the region.<br />
Families learn how to farm their small<br />
gardens so that they can meet their own<br />
needs while also having a surplus to<br />
sell. The foundation offers young people<br />
opportunities to develop in ways that<br />
fit with their own unique abilities and<br />
talents – regardless of whether their<br />
parents are rich or poor. This lays excellent<br />
foundations for lifelong employment<br />
and therefore provides brighter futures.”<br />
Dr. Auma Obama is a well-known<br />
author and speaker who gives keynote<br />
speeches and presentations<br />
throughout Europe about ecological,<br />
economic, and social sustainability.<br />
• Fourth International TÜV<br />
Rheinland <strong>Global</strong> Compact<br />
Award, October 2017<br />
• Fit4Future honorary award,<br />
June 2017<br />
• Kiwanis Award 2016, Kiwanis<br />
Club Stuttgart, March 2016<br />
• World Human Rights Award,<br />
Look magazine, Austria,<br />
November 2015<br />
• German Speakers Award, GSA<br />
German Speakers Association,<br />
September 2015<br />
• International B.A.U.M. Special<br />
Award, September 2015<br />
• Prix Courage Award, ZDF Mona<br />
Lisa and Clarins Paris,<br />
October 2014<br />
TÜV Rheinland Foundation is a nonprofit<br />
organization that is particularly<br />
active in the areas of safety and<br />
energy technology, environmental<br />
protection, joint development initiatives,<br />
and improving training and<br />
education. The International TÜV<br />
Rheinland <strong>Global</strong> Compact Award<br />
was born out of the International<br />
Rheinland Prize for Environmental<br />
Protection, which had been running<br />
since 1974. In addition to awarding<br />
this prize, the TÜV Rheinland<br />
Foundation funds projects that focus<br />
on the areas outlined above.<br />
Founder: TÜV Rheinland Berlin<br />
Brandenburg Pfalz e.V.<br />
Executive Board of Management:<br />
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Bruno O. Braun<br />
(Chairman)<br />
Board of Trustees: The Board of<br />
Trustees is made up of seven people<br />
from the private and public sectors.<br />
It guides the work of the foundation<br />
and advises on candidates for the<br />
International TÜV Rheinland <strong>Global</strong><br />
Compact Award.<br />
The recipient of the award, Dr. Auma<br />
Obama, expressed her gratitude for the<br />
award, saying, “Receiving this award is<br />
a great honor for me. It also shows that<br />
my work – and the work of my team at<br />
the Sauti Kuu Foundation and of many<br />
people at our site in Kenya – is being<br />
recognized and can make a difference.<br />
So I hope that lots more people will get<br />
involved. The place we need to start is<br />
where future change happens – the<br />
education and training of children and<br />
young people. We tell them loud and<br />
clear: You are your future. And we build<br />
up their confidence in very practical ways,<br />
right where they are – together with their<br />
families.” The prize was presented by<br />
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Bruno O. Braun, Chairman<br />
of the Executive Board of Management of<br />
TÜV Rheinland Berlin Brandenburg Pfalz<br />
e.V. and of the TÜV Rheinland Foundation.<br />
TÜV Rheinland has been a signatory to<br />
the <strong>Global</strong> Compact since 2006 and is convinced<br />
that economic, social, and ecological<br />
factors are closely intertwined with the<br />
long-term success of the enterprise. This<br />
is why, since 2010, TÜV Rheinland has<br />
been including details of its sustainability<br />
endeavors alongside the financial data<br />
when it publishes its company report.<br />
<strong>Global</strong> <strong>Goals</strong> <strong>Yearbook</strong> <strong>2018</strong> 163
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