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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The United Nations Environment<br />
Programme (UN Environment) is the<br />
leading global environmental authority<br />
that sets the global environmental<br />
agenda, promotes the coherent implementation<br />
of the environmental<br />
dimension of sustainable development<br />
within the United Nations system, and<br />
serves as an authoritative advocate for<br />
the global environment.<br />
Our mission is to provide leadership<br />
and encourage partnership in<br />
caring for the environment by inspiring,<br />
informing, and enabling nations and<br />
peoples to improve their quality of life<br />
without compromising that of future<br />
generations.<br />
Headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya,<br />
we work through our divisions as well<br />
as our regional, liaison and out-posted<br />
offices and a growing network of<br />
collaborating centres of excellence. We<br />
also host several environmental conventions,<br />
secretariats and inter-agency<br />
coordinating bodies. UN Environment<br />
is led by our Executive Director Erik<br />
Solheim.<br />
We categorize our work into seven<br />
broad thematic areas: climate change,<br />
disasters and conflicts, ecosystem<br />
management, environmental governance,<br />
chemicals and waste, resource<br />
efficiency, and environment under<br />
review.<br />
UNICEF works in 190 countries<br />
and territories to protect the rights of<br />
every child. UNICEF has spent 70 years<br />
working to improve the lives of children<br />
and their families.<br />
UNICEF promotes the rights and<br />
wellbeing of every child, in everything<br />
we do. Together with our partners, we<br />
work to translate that commitment into<br />
practical action, focusing special effort<br />
on reaching the most vulnerable and<br />
excluded children, to the benefit of all<br />
children, everywhere.<br />
In all of its work, UNICEF takes a<br />
life-cycle based approach, recognizing<br />
the particular importance of early childhood<br />
development and adolescence.<br />
UNICEF programmes focus on the most<br />
disadvantaged children, including those<br />
living in fragile contexts, those with<br />
disabilities, those who are affected by<br />
rapid urbanization and those affected<br />
by environmental degradation.<br />
UNICEF was created with a distinct<br />
purpose in mind: to work with others<br />
to overcome the obstacles that poverty,<br />
violence, disease and discrimination<br />
place in a child’s path. We advocate<br />
for measures to give children the best<br />
start in life, because proper care at<br />
the youngest age forms the strongest<br />
foundation for a person’s future.<br />
UNOPS is focused on implementation<br />
and committed to UN values. We<br />
support our partners’ efforts to bring<br />
peace and security, humanitarian and<br />
development solutions to some of the<br />
world’s most challenging environments.<br />
UNOPS works towards a better,<br />
more sustainable future by contributing<br />
to broader efforts to help partners<br />
achieve all 17 of the Sustainable<br />
Development <strong>Goals</strong>.<br />
While UNOPS can expand capacity<br />
towards achievement of all the<br />
Sustainable Development <strong>Goals</strong>,<br />
focus is always defined by the needs of<br />
people, partners and countries.<br />
As part of this, we’re also committed<br />
to helping achieve the Paris Agreement<br />
on Climate Change, the Sendai<br />
Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction<br />
and are working with partners – like<br />
UN-Habitat – to make progress on the<br />
New Urban Agenda.<br />
The development needs, as articulated<br />
by the above agreements and<br />
the Addis Ababa Agenda on Financing<br />
for Development, will require trillions<br />
of dollars in investments. UNOPS is<br />
committed to facilitating private sector<br />
investment to achieve the <strong>Global</strong> <strong>Goals</strong>.<br />
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