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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3M INNOVATION IS IMPROVING<br />
EVERY LIFE<br />
Our commitments and goals reflect our focus on challenging the status quo, finding ways to do<br />
things better, as well as doing things differently. We believe that applying science to life – mixed<br />
with innovation and creativity – will result in better and different outcomes.<br />
By Dr. Gayle R. T. Schueller, 3M<br />
Our world is facing many challenges.<br />
For communities around the world, the<br />
status quo is not good enough. As the<br />
global population grows, in particular<br />
in emerging economies, challenges such<br />
as political and economic instability,<br />
energy security, raw material scarcity,<br />
human health and safety, education,<br />
and development must be addressed to<br />
ensure that people across the globe can<br />
lead healthy, fulfilling lives.<br />
We are a company rooted in scientific<br />
exploration, and we believe that every<br />
problem has a solution. We approach<br />
sustainability in the same way. Sustaining<br />
our business and our planet means<br />
protecting natural resources and empowering<br />
individuals and communities<br />
throughout the world to encourage<br />
progress. Above all else, it means uniting<br />
under a common goal: improving<br />
every life.<br />
We have a unique opportunity to apply<br />
our science and technology to do things<br />
differently while focusing on long-term,<br />
sustainable solutions to drive change for<br />
the greater good. This requires collaboration<br />
– with our customers, partners, and<br />
stakeholders. It means understanding<br />
the everyday sustainability challenges<br />
faced by our customers, the important<br />
commitments companies and governments<br />
have made, and how all of this<br />
“We have<br />
a unique<br />
opportunity to<br />
apply our<br />
science and<br />
technology to<br />
do things<br />
differently<br />
while focusing<br />
on long-term,<br />
sustainable<br />
solutions to<br />
drive change<br />
for the greater<br />
good.<br />
impacts the bigger picture – the large,<br />
long-term societal issues that must be<br />
faced to empower future generations.<br />
Stakeholders increasingly expect companies<br />
to create social value as well as<br />
make financial gains. That is why we<br />
have made such an active effort to involve<br />
stakeholders in the development<br />
of our 2025 sustainability goals, framing<br />
each one around a shared global<br />
challenge, including: investing in sustainable<br />
materials, energy efficiency,<br />
and water management; helping our<br />
customers reduce their greenhouse<br />
gas emissions by using our products;<br />
promoting worker and patient safety<br />
in healthcare and industrial settings;<br />
and strengthening our workforce by<br />
doubling 3M’s pipeline of diverse<br />
leaders by 2025.<br />
This is apparent when one considers<br />
how our goals align with the United<br />
Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainability<br />
Development and the 17 Sustainable<br />
Development <strong>Goals</strong>. The way we see it,<br />
global challenges must be addressed<br />
together to ensure that we can all live<br />
healthy, fulfilling lives.<br />
Today, sustainability serves to drive innovation<br />
– in our manufacturing, in<br />
our products, and in new technologies.<br />
Whether it is through the incorpora-<br />
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