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 UNSSC Knowledge Centre for<br />
Sustainable Development supports the<br />
policy and operational work of the UN<br />
through the development of learning<br />
tools, platforms for interaction and a<br />
mature set of learning offerings for<br />
UN Staff. It also serves as a catalyst<br />
and convener prompting dialogue and<br />
knowledge sharing on issues relevant<br />
to the vision and mission of the United<br />
Nations between UN staff and a diverse<br />
set of stakeholders from academia, the<br />
private sector and civil society.<br />
Building on our experiences in 2016<br />
and 2017, programmes for <strong>2018</strong> at the<br />
United Nations System Staff College<br />
(UNSSC) Knowledge Centre for Sustainable<br />
Development are now in full swing.<br />
In the coming year, our partners and<br />
beneficiaries in the UN and beyond can<br />
look forward to an enhanced range of<br />
offerings to meet the learning needs<br />
demanded by the 2030 Agenda, and<br />
drive collective results for development.<br />
The UNSSC Knowledge Centre for<br />
Sustainable Development will also<br />
focus on empowering stakeholders, and<br />
facilitating integrated and transformative<br />
action for sustainable development<br />
by equipping UN staff and stakeholders<br />
from governments, civil society,<br />
academia, and the private sector with<br />
the necessary capacities and skills to<br />
implement the 2030 Agenda through<br />
our learning and training offerings.<br />
CDP is a not-for-profit charity that<br />
runs the global disclosure system for<br />
investors, companies, cities, states and<br />
regions to manage their environmental<br />
impacts. Over the past 15 years we have<br />
created a system that has resulted in<br />
unparalleled engagement on environmental<br />
issues worldwide.<br />
To achieve this, CDP, formerly the<br />
Carbon Disclosure Project, has built<br />
the most comprehensive collection<br />
of self-reported environmental data<br />
in the world.<br />
Our network of investors and<br />
purchasers, representing over $100<br />
trillion, along with policy makers<br />
around the globe, use our data and<br />
insights to make better-informed<br />
decisions. Through our offices and partners<br />
in 50 countries we have driven<br />
unprecedented levels of environmental<br />
disclosure.<br />
Over the past 15 years CDP has<br />
created a system that has resulted<br />
in unparalleled engagement on environmental<br />
issues between investors,<br />
companies, cities, states and regions<br />
worldwide. CDP’s data enables our network<br />
to link environmental integrity,<br />
fiduciary duty and public interest to<br />
make better-informed decisions on<br />
climate action.<br />
The Club of Rome is an organisation<br />
of individuals who share a common<br />
concern for the future of humanity and<br />
strive to make a difference. Our members<br />
are notable scientists, economists,<br />
businessmen and businesswomen,<br />
high level civil servants and former<br />
heads of state from around the world.<br />
Their efforts are supported by the<br />
Secretariat in Winterthur, Switzerland,<br />
the European Research Centre registered<br />
in Constance, Germany and<br />
National Associations in more than<br />
30 countries.<br />
The Club of Rome conducts research<br />
and hosts debates, conferences,<br />
lectures, high-level meetings and<br />
events. The Club also publishes a<br />
limited number of peer-reviewed<br />
“Reports to the Club of Rome”, the<br />
most famous of which is “The Limits<br />
to Growth“.<br />
The Club of Rome’s mission is to<br />
promote understanding of the global<br />
challenges facing humanity and to<br />
propose solutions through scientific<br />
analysis, communication and advocacy.<br />
Recognising the interconnectedness of<br />
today’s global challenges, our distinct<br />
perspective is holistic, systemic and<br />
long-term.<br />
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